tweeters

hey u guys i have 6.5 in components in my front doors and a while back i had a seperate tweeter put like further above it. It sounded good and it did come with a crossover it was profesionally installed. They are pretty nice memphis tweeters rated at 50 rms. i only had about maybe 20 watts rms pushing them with my head unit and they still managed to blow. My question is how did they blow with only that much power and when i get new ones should i run them off an amp at about 50 watts rms? thanks

you should us an amp your all of your main speakers speakers dont blow from to much power normally  distortion and cliping is what blows speakers also i think you should get some crossovers1974 ford pinto 4 15" punch Z power punch bd 1001 pioneer DEH-6700

you should definatly get some crossovers or else those tweeters are going to be driven as if they are 6.5's which they were not made for and also be carfull because blown tweeters can short the radio

Get better tweeters. If you have the space I would recommend a nice set of Pro-audio Compression drivers. 1in throat opening, 116dB sensitivity, cross it over at around 6k~7khz. That'd be high enough to get the horn size down to something managable. Then you could truely play them with the power from your HU. Just imagine, 125dB with only 12watts of power

ya as i said the tweeters come with crossovers as well as all my other speakers do in my car. my question is should i run them off the head unit or off an amp?

an amp

definately use an ampjoe

ya well see im going to add a set of tweeters and 2 pairs of 4in memphis coaxial speakers. and i want to feed about 50 watts to each of those. could i do all of that off of 1 4 channel amp?

Sure you could. Run the front 4's and tweets in Parallel at 2 ohms stereo with the tweets crossed over. The amp should be fine and then run the rear channels to the other 4's

well see i already have a memphic mclass 2004 amp pushing a set of 6x9's and a set of 6.5's. so would i want to by another amp for the new speakers im adding?