Have a 1997 Monsoon 10 speaker system, with a blown rear seat speaker. Called crutchfield because I got tried of replacing them with factory speakers. They recommended the Infinity Reference 6022si in the back seat area and the door panels.

Ordered them and per their instructions this is how they were installed. The back seat speakers were wired up to the speakers, they told me to test both sets of wires one would be a hi and one be a low. Use whatever one sounded the best.

The door speakers, they said one way to do it would be to use the wire that is currently going to the door tweeter. So I wired up the speakers use the tweeter's wire. Thus unpluging the factory door tweeters and their resisitor.

Does this sound like the best approach? On the back seat area, was there a way to figure out which wire set to use than which one sounded the best? They told me the back seat area would only produce base, which I understand.

 

Anybody ever heard of this??? Anybody think this will work??

 

are you trying to put tweeters in the back or front. because i go for the back!

 

When you say back, you mean the sail panel area? Those are just mid-bass woofers- though if you have speakers all the way back in the parcel area, they are 2-way, a woofer and tweeter, similar to what is in the door.

I replaced all my stock speakers with Infinity speakers, still using the stock Monsoon- Sounds great, just don't have extreme power levels, which is fine by me-

 

The parcel area still has the stock speakers.

The infinity speakers in the Door are the Reference line, they have a built in tweeter. I am using the factory monsoon tweeter wire to power the speaker with the built in tweeter. The factory larger speaker wire isin't connected to anything.

Does this sound okay to do? That is what I am doing right now.

 

my guess is to re-wire the front speaker. because you ain't going to have that good sound. and it better to wire the head unit to the speakers then using the bose amp!

 

He does not have the Bose system as this was not used after 96 and he stated that he has the 10 speaker Monsoon, not the Bose. The stock Monsoon amp is not bad if you use the right speakers, hook the speakers up right and use an aftermarket HU. Decent gains can be had just by replacing the speakers.
Here's what you need to do:
1.) Rewire the doors speakers. To do this and do it right you need to take your Infinity speaker out and look at the back of it. You will see thin wires running up the back of the magnet and into the center of it into a hole. Those are the tweeter wires. Pay attention to which one is pos and which one is neg by looking at the terminal where they are connected. Once this is noted, cut it close to the terminal. Sounds crazy but this is the right way, I promise! These wires are your tweeter wires and the best way to hook these up is to reuse the stock connector from you stock speaker. Hook them up to the stock connector. Then hook your midbass up to the stock connector and plug it into the stock harness. Done.
If you do not have the stock connector anymore, use the saem process but simply connect the taped off midbass wires to the speaker input when your done hooking up the tweeter.
This is a very common mistake made with the Camaro Monsoon system since your dealing with 2 pairs of wires going to one speaker. Not all speakers work with it since you need the tweeter wires exposed on the back of the speaker to tap into.

Crutchfield will recommend anything for these cars that's 6.5". They are not clued in on how the Monsoon actually works or how it's wired. They will even recommend coaxials for the sailpanels when only bass comes from that location.
You can use a decent set of coaxials for the doors (with exposed tweeter wires), a good midbass driver or 6.5" sub for the sail panels, and either disconnect the hatch or replace them with some decent 4" coaxials.

 

the reason crutchfield told you to use the factory tweeter wire is because they are not amplified. If you were to unplug the monsoon amp the only thing that will play is the tweeters (door and hatch). You can use the the 6.5 speaker wires as long as your amp was not part of the original problem. As far as separating the reference speaker: the little black cylindrical shape is a capacitor that limits the frequencies to just high notes and the factory wiring does not filter any frequencies so you must keep that in tact if you do separate the two. Their is no point or advantage to separating them but your call.

 

I disconnected that wire on back of the Infiniti speakers (the one that lead to the built in infiniti tweeter) and wired it to the factory tweeter wire, wired the actual infiniti speaker to the factory 6.5 speaker wire. Sounds great. Thanks, Walking-dead and Chevyssoccer