HOw much power are you guys running to your
speakers?
I`ve got my mids about 200w ea. and my tweeters are runing off the deck power. <- proly not a good idea

I was thinking of ditching the massive amounts of power I have for my mids and picking up
2 smaller amps to do the job.

 

This is going to be completely foreign to some of you:

It's theretically best to use amps with similar slew rates to drive your front stage.


On to the english part of that statement:

It's good to use the same type of amp for your mids and tweeters.

As for how much power to use in an SQ system, I'm a horrible example. NO I DON"T DO SPL.

Tweeters- about 100watts/channel
Midranges- about 100watts/channel
Midbasses- about 250watts/channel
Subs- about 2000 watts mono

It's all you need to listen to the evening news [img]smile.gif[/img]

Adam

 

I had thought about that.
If you were using 2 amps that were totally different.. they would "Get louder" at different rates. Thats how I look at it.

I have a 4 channel MTX 4320 something like 35w x 4
Underrated. More like 80 x 4. That would be enuf for the tweeters, but i am concernd with the 6.5" mid.

Thanks

 

Think of it this way.

You're "pee pee time" girl needs room to jump up and down. All the amps share roughly the same noise "floor". The larger the power rating, the higher she can jump.(Higher ceiling)

I've got tons of power so I can accurately reproduce dynamics, not so I can have a high continuous SPL level.

Adam

 

thats going to sound funny when the Pee Pee Girl is gone.



So more power!?

[ March 19, 2004, 11:42 AM: Message edited by: Seahag ]

 

Why not just get a passive?

 

because I hate distortion.

Most mid level components have wimpy tweeters so I am making a set myself with some beefy tweeters.
Passives would be time consuming and expensive.
(just because I am a newb and I dont understand what my ears are telling me)
Maybe in the Future...

 

Never hurts to have the extra headroom [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

I've got around 300 watts RMS going to my front stage, and around 300 watts RMS to the trunk.

 

I agree with all in that concerning SQ, but I would never put that much power solely for subs. A lot of volume can be had with just 600 watts, just come listen to my system.

Ermm, I did notice a difference myself when going from a dedicated 2 channel amp to 2 independant L and R amps. I had my USA 300 running my front stage (150x2 RMS) and it did sound good, but it made my mid high range a bit screechy for me. Vocals were more present and came out a little bit dry. Midbass had a very tight feel and it was like the amp had good control over the drivers.

I switched back to the Sony's (240 RMS each) and noticed softer and more pleasent high end,..the screechiness went away, but it also cost some vocal strength. Had about on par output bass-wise, but really the volume **** was at about the same position throughout between both amps. I might be fooled though, between the response differences throughout the frequency range, as I was able to listen to the Sony's at a higher volume without discomfort compared to the US Amps.

So yeah, independently powered midbasses are definitely cool. For those honking HT tweets, you might not need as much power, say 50-150 per side.
My suggestion: for what you have right now, use the MTX 4 ch just on the midbasses. Bridge the channels so you get one mid per channel. Get another amp powered at 60x2 or more for the tweets.

[ March 20, 2004, 09:36 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Big Schnoz ]

 

^^I agree, I have too much power for my subs. But, I bought the sub amp because of how the amp line sounds. Originally I was going to run my 4 subs series-parallel putting a 4 ohm load on my sub amp.(about 500 watts) But, I tried wiring all the subs parallel and liked it.(1ohm)

I'd say for SQ that you only really need about 300 watts.

Adam