Replaced damaged speaker, now having problems

[alawMC]

I just replaced a 6x9 on my rear deck that had been damaged and now my low end is absent. The weird thing is that if I change the balance to either all right or all left, the full range is there. I think that I may have reversed the polarity to the new speaker and the speakers are cancelling each other out. Does that seem right that a speaker with the opposite polarity could do that?

[FireII]

Originally Posted by alawMC

I just replaced a 6x9 on my rear deck that had been damaged and now my low end is absent. The weird thing is that if I change the balance to either all right or all left, the full range is there. I think that I may have reversed the polarity to the new speaker and the speakers are cancelling each other out. Does that seem right that a speaker with the opposite polarity could do that?

Yep, its called destructive interfearance. Flip the polarity on the speaker, problem solved. As one speaker goes to push out and the other is pushing in, there is no wave created.