Kappa components power rating

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Topic: Kappa components power rating

Posted By: 86monte
Subject: Kappa components power rating
Date Posted: December 03, 2006 at 7:00 PM

hey guys. i just got some kappa 5.25" components. im confused about how to power them though. i always thought for components rms ratings were measured at each crossover (ie:rms 100 watts, just send 100 watts to the crossover), but these have two seperate rating for midbass driver and tweeter. here are the specs. this is the owners manual. scroll to page 4. https://manuals.harman.com/INF/CAR/Owner%27s%20Manual/KAPPA%20COMP%20OM%20LR.pdf. if anybody knows what to do please let me know. thanks

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: December 04, 2006 at 9:48 AM

Your speakers are rated at 85 watts per channel. They are 2-ohm components by the way. The separate tweeter power rating is given because it is possible to bi-amp these speakers. Ignore that if you are using a single amplifier channel per side.

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Posted By: 86monte
Date Posted: December 04, 2006 at 11:06 PM

DYohn] wrote:

our speakers are rated at 85 watts per channel. They are 2-ohm components by the way. The separate tweeter power rating is given because it is possible to bi-amp these speakers. Ignore that if you are using a single amplifier channel per side.

thank you very much. why would you bi-amp these? you wouldnt be able to use the crossover then would you?

Posted By: geepherder
Date Posted: December 05, 2006 at 7:13 PM

Bi-amping gives you more control over the individual speakers. For example, if you wanted to change the crossover point slightly, or attenuate the tweeter to a greater/lesser degree than passive crossover allows, you could do so. That's right, you wouldn't use the supplied crossover anymore since you'd be using the amp's built in crossover.

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Posted By: 86monte
Date Posted: December 05, 2006 at 10:46 PM

geepherder wrote:

Bi-amping gives you more control over the individual speakers. For example, if you wanted to change the crossover point slightly, or attenuate the tweeter to a greater/lesser degree than passive crossover allows, you could do so. That's right, you wouldn't use the supplied crossover anymore since you'd be using the amp's built in crossover.

cool. thanks everybody posted_image