Just in case anybody was curious...
I ended up replacing the factory HU with a Panasonic HU and in the process answered my own question from the old forum (http://forums.newbeetle.org/showthread.php?threadid=55100).
The non-Monsoon component speakers (mid-bass in the door, tweeter in the A-pillar) in my 2001 GLX do not use a crossover. Both are wired directly to the factory HU front channel speaker inputs (Wish I'd taken a picture of it, but if you pull out your HU you'll see that there are two pairs of wires - two positives and two negatives for four total - going into each front channel in the wiring harness). They handle the additional load on the tweeters by adding what looks like a resistor on the back.
Kind of a cheap way to do it, but on the plus side it made upgrading the stereo that much easier since I didn't have to run my own wire! I just cut the wires from the stock harness and connected them to the Infinity crossover that came with my speakers. The sound difference is incredible (I replaced all the speakers first and listened to them with the stock HU for a couple of days)! Much cleaner/clearer sound. Still not much bass when the car's in motion, but that's what a sub's for (sometime in the future, maybe).
Anyway, sorry for the long-winded post but I just wanted to report back.
Thanks for your suggestions, Toad.
- Peter
I ended up replacing the factory HU with a Panasonic HU and in the process answered my own question from the old forum (http://forums.newbeetle.org/showthread.php?threadid=55100).
The non-Monsoon component speakers (mid-bass in the door, tweeter in the A-pillar) in my 2001 GLX do not use a crossover. Both are wired directly to the factory HU front channel speaker inputs (Wish I'd taken a picture of it, but if you pull out your HU you'll see that there are two pairs of wires - two positives and two negatives for four total - going into each front channel in the wiring harness). They handle the additional load on the tweeters by adding what looks like a resistor on the back.
Kind of a cheap way to do it, but on the plus side it made upgrading the stereo that much easier since I didn't have to run my own wire! I just cut the wires from the stock harness and connected them to the Infinity crossover that came with my speakers. The sound difference is incredible (I replaced all the speakers first and listened to them with the stock HU for a couple of days)! Much cleaner/clearer sound. Still not much bass when the car's in motion, but that's what a sub's for (sometime in the future, maybe).
Anyway, sorry for the long-winded post but I just wanted to report back.
Thanks for your suggestions, Toad.
- Peter