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Re: Rear speaker replacement
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Posted by pme [Email] (#1496) [Profile/Gallery] (more from pme) on Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:57:58 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: Rear speaker replacement, 199995wagon [Profile/Gallery] , Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:13:40
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The attached link is from a different board that reproduced a now defunct site’s solid summary of the Saab Audio systems, including some wiring guidance etc. You may fund it informative.

Regarding your experience with the fader, that is consistent with how my MY2003 9-5 Arc (4door with 9 speakers )works. This would be comparable to your wagon version (we both have 3 dash speakers, 2 front door, 2 rear door, and 1 - wagon, or 2 sedan rear subwoofers).

When I fade to rear the sound loses its luster and is much quieter. At some level that makes sense. If you look at the audio guide attached you’ll see broad discussions of the frequencies the speakers in each position are intended to reproduce. When you have the fader fully forward, the 5 front speakers are active (3 dash, 2 door) and across them they are reproducing the full audio range.

When you fade to the rear, you have two door speakers reproducing only midrange and low frequencies, and the subwoofer reproduces only the sub bass frequencies. By their nature these will be a small subset of the full audio spectrum, and in their positions in the car, you wouldn’t want them as powerful as the front (or that’s all the back seat folks would hear!). Fader at center allows the full spectrum front to dominate and allows the rear and sub to add subtle richness.

If you are expecting the throbbing bass punch, that’s not what this audio system is designed to do without modification.

Just my view, and the experience I had with 2 9-5s - a 2000 SE Wagon, and my current 2003 9-5 Sedan. I wish I could remember how the 1993 9000 CSE audio system was more clearly.

Good luck, but I wouldn’t start throwing parts at something that I think might be working as designed.

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