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wich speakers should I hook to the amp?

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Topic: wich speakers should I hook to the amp?

Posted By: b4tn
Subject: wich speakers should I hook to the amp?
Date Posted: May 18, 2005 at 3:25 PM

I have my 12" sub on my 400 wrms amp. I have a second amp and I cant decide if I should power the front componant speakers or the rear 6x9 3 ways. The deck is a Alpine 9830



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Posted By: b4tn
Date Posted: May 18, 2005 at 3:26 PM
the fronts are 6 1/2" componant speakers




Posted By: Francious70
Date Posted: May 18, 2005 at 3:32 PM
Front speakers. Always make the fronts better than the rears.

Paul




Posted By: b4tn
Date Posted: May 19, 2005 at 3:08 AM
Ok so the Componant speakers have the x-over, my deck has an electronic HP x-over, and my amp also has a HP x-over.  So what is the best method for this?  I figure leave the passive x-over on the componant speakers to seperate the highs to the tweaters.  Shoul I turn on the hp x-over on both the deck and the amp or only turn one on or leave them both off and let the passive take care of everything?




Posted By: dxn
Date Posted: May 19, 2005 at 7:57 PM
hiya, I would use both crossovers. By using both the h/unit crossover as well as the amp crossover you are effectively increasing the crossover slope. If the amp and the h/unit roll off is 12db each (this is standard) then you will end up with a 24db crossover slope which should give you cleaner sound.





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