BigRedGuy

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The lower the frequencies you want the driver to play the stronger it needs to be.....stronger magnet, longer former, bigger Xmax....its all about displacement and for the lowest frequencies it needs to be large.

Midbass (80-120hz or so) is high enough that your ears hear them in stereo so mono is a bad option.

Feeding midbass to a subwoofer, even if the specs say it can do it, will cause issues with SQ....a sub can't do a great job covering all of those frequencies without them all suffering a little.....

HTH

Kyle_H

Hmm, I'm really not sure what I want to do anymore :/
would there even be a point in putting midbass drivers if I'm planning on putting amp-ed components all around with like 75ish rms? (6.5 components rated at say 35 hz low end)

n0catchyname

The main difference between a midbass driver and a subwoofer is frequency response and general sound reproduction. A subwoofer is designed to best reproduce low tones 20Hz to (at best) 150hz, a midbass driver/regular woofer/component speaker is designed to reproduce basically everything inbetween your subwoofer and tweeters (in theory anyway).

They should be wired 1 channel each just like a regular speaker would be because you want them to be in stereo.

Higher frequency subwoofers don't work the same as midbass drivers because they don't have the frequency range of a midbass driver

prod

Im not familiar with the kicker components you mentioned, but most people are quite happy with just 6.5" components and a sub. If you really feel the need for more midbass than that, you would probably want to go up to 8" midbass drivers on the rear channels or not even bother. However that probably wont fit without some custom work to mount them.
I myself am getting midbass drivers for the rear channels because the coaxial speakers I have in the front doors do very well for highs and high midrange, but are lacking a lot of midbass. With a good set of component speakers, that would not be the case.
It sounds like you have a decent sub, but maybe a bandpass box isnt the best for you. Maybe using the same sub in a ported box would help blend with the component speakers. Ive never really heard a bandpass setup, so maybe someone else could advise you there.