Recent content by GSG2Teg

I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking air flow. In a ported box you have the port to allow air flow creating less stress on the sub and amplifier. In a sealed box you are making the amp push harder because their is more resistance being pushed back against the sub. Plus it sounds like you went...

I think I get what you are saying. I am currently using an older Streetwires bus fuse style distribution block in the back. 4 - neg. and 4 - positive outs. I believe it can handle 0 gauge in, and 4 out. I am currently using 8 gauge with the 30 amp fuses for the tiny Alpine amplifiers at this...

So, I know there are posts out there already about what size of fuse and wire sizes to use, I'm kind of looking for someone to double check my math and info so I don't blow something or burn my car down, and see if I still have the power from the wire currently installed. My plan in the next...

Sweet thanks man! I haven't messed with the outputs yet, I remember reading something about that switch way back when the amp first came out but never really needed it. I just recently came across this seconded MRV and the possibilities are running through my head.

and correction/answer to my gain question.. it says "Set the MRV-F450/MRV-F540/MRV-F340 input gain to the minimum (4V) position." With min., nom., max., and all else in between.. I guess min. would be the 4v position.

3 (front, rear, sub) And I was going to say ya, I was just looking over the amp manual and from the looks of things it's still in 4 ohm's the way I've bridged the subs so far, or any set of speakers that I'm planning on doing that way.

Sort of to clarify.. I read somewhere that every time you split your RCA cables you will only make a difference on your voltage (by a little) and not affect the impedance?

Yes, I am using the crossovers that came with the tweeters. And yes, I was trying not to drop impedance if I could. What I actually had set up was one amp for fronts and rear. The rear channel went into the crossover, then from the crossover it split off into the tweeters and then splitting...

I think my overall design will be splitting both my front and rear RCA's into 4's having one 4 channel amp being for front and one being for rear. I would possibly have to do another split on top of that if I was going to bridge a single set in the rear making me use one amp for front/rear, and...

I didn't think about stereo/mono. I would most likely be splitting the rca's to turn the 4 channel amp into a two. There is another switch or option on the amp to strictly get signal from like channel 1/3, or 1/4 or all of them, I'd have to look again to be for sure. But I thought it would...

I have a Alpine CDE-HD149BT, 2 Alpine MRV-F340 Amplifiers (55w RMS x 4 @ 4 Ohms, 130w x 2 @ 4 ohms(bridged)), 2 6.5" 3-way Pioneers (50w RMS, 300w max) for the fronts, 2 6.5" 2-way Pioneers (40w RMS, 250 max) for the rears, and a set of 1" Alpine Type-R component tweeters in the rear that are...