Quieting 6x9’s
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Forum Name: Car Audio
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Printed Date: May 09, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Topic: Quieting 6x9’s
Posted By: sprawl85
Subject: Quieting 6x9’s
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 12:16 PM
Hey, I have a two channel mtx amp that puts out 120x2 at 4 ohms when the car is on. I have this running to my mb quart components in the front. I just bought some alpine 6x9's for the rear fill, but I want them to be significantly quiter than my front speakers. All speakers in the car will be 4 ohms. and there will be one 6x9 and one half of the component set running to each channel on the mtx amp, so it will be running 2 ohms/channel. Can't I put a resistor or something inline with the 6x9's? They only handle 55 watts rms anyway.
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Posted By: jstruckman
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 12:42 PM
Run you MB Quarts with the MTX amp and run the 6X9's off of your head unit. It's that simple.
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Posted By: sprawl85
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 1:09 PM
yuk. I don't want anything running off my headunit. I have the internal amp on it shut off, and I want to keep it running as cool as possible
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Posted By: jstruckman
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 1:45 PM
Well then your only other option is to get another amp. IF you try putting restistor on the speaker wire, that is power wasted, and yes it will take power from your MB Quarts also if you do use a resistor inline.
Why do you want to keep the head unit as cool as possible, it is not going to matter either way, the head unit is designed to be used with the internal amp anyway, it is not going to hurt anything.
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Posted By: aznboi3644
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 2:59 PM
Either way the head unit is going to get hot...do you not like the inside of your dash to be exposed to heat??
As long as you don't clip your hu's amp than you'll be fine...Shouldn't be a problem with front stage on the amp and rear fill on headunit.
Posted By: luckydevil
Date Posted: July 21, 2006 at 3:07 PM
Buy a seperate amp for the 6x9's and turn the gain down to your liking.
Posted By: dangerranger96
Date Posted: July 24, 2006 at 9:35 PM
planet audio has a 30x2 rms same amp that i have on my 6x8's vx-602. you can get it from ebay for $40.50 shipped
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