JBL 400GTi manual

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    T able of Contents Welcome to Club GT i ............................................3 About this Manual .................................................3 Autosound at its Best ............................................4 Designing Y our System .........................................4 Component Placement .........................................[...]

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    Welcome to Club GT i Thank you for purchasing the finest automotive woofer/midrange JBL has ever produced. As a GT i Competition Series owner , you are a member of a select group of people who enjoy the most advanced mobile audio products available. We call this group “Club GT i. ” By sending in the customer information card, which you will fin[...]

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    Autosound at its Best The 400 and 500GT i’s are built to meet the same rigorous standards of construction and performance that have long established JBL ’s renowned home and professional speaker systems. The 400 and 500GT i Woofer/Midranges incorporate advanced JBL woven Kevlar cones which are especially suited to the unique acoustic and enviro[...]

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    Woofer/Midrange, and a laboratory- optimized crossover . The most popular system configuration is a hybrid using an active crossover for the subwoofer to midrange crossover point, and a passive crossover for the midrange to tweeter crossover . Y our GTi Competition series dealer is uniquely qualified to help guide you on the best system configurati[...]

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    Mounting Instructions Pick a mounting location after reading the recommendations in the Component Location section of this manual. Mounting Speakers in Stock Hole Locations 1 . Access the stock speaker location and remove the stock speaker . The 400 and 500GT i include mounting ring adaptors which allow the speaker to be mounted in standard 4"[...]

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    Note: The metal grille is designed so that it can be covered with grille cloth if desired. Simply remove the metal grille from the grille frame as shown in Figure C. Then use spray adhesive to glue and wrap the grille cloth to the metal grille. Push the metal grille with cloth back in the plastic trim ring. For even better interior matching it is a[...]

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    that the 400 and 500GT i should always be connected in the same polarity as the tweeter however . It is possible, that due to the difference in the distance the sound travels from the woofer/midrange to your ears compared to the distance from the tweeters in a typical system, and the short wavelengths of sound at the crossover frequency , that a co[...]

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    to tweeter transition. Set the high crossover frequency at or above 5kHz if a 12dB per octave crossover is used and at or above 3.5kHz if you are using an 18 or 24dB per octave crossover . For safety , the maximum recommended amplifier power routed directly to the 400 and 500GT i Midrange is 150 watts for the 400GT i and 200 watts for the 500GT i. [...]

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    Specifications: 400GT i 500GT i Frequency Response Without Crossover: 80Hz – 5kHz 60Hz – 5kHz Recommended Minimum High-Pass Crossover Frequency for Medium Power Operation: 80Hz 60Hz Recommended Maximum Low-Pass Crossover Frequency: 5kHz 5kHz Continuous Power Handling With 12dB Passive Network High Passed at Recommended Minimum Frequency: 100 W [...]

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    11 Thiele-Small Specifications: 400GT i 500GT i Free Air Resonance (Fs): 125Hz 100Hz Electrical Damping (Qes): 0.52 0.51 Mechanical Damping (Qms): 5.17 5.14 T otal Damping (Qt): 0.47 0.4 Equivalent V olume of Compilance (V as): 0.0388 cu. ft. (1.10 liters) 0.1059 cu. ft. (3.0 liters) Effective Cone Area (Sd): (0.0060 m 2 ) (0.0092 m 2 ) Center to P[...]

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