Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts
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pioneer has crossovers for the midrange's high pass filter and low pass filter and tweeter high pass as well plus subwoofer. While the kenwood only has tweeter high pass and midrange high pass, there is nothing preventing the midrange from playing nasty tweeter frequencies that mids should never play.Purely out of curiousity. Was the Pioneer a better bet for a network setup, because of the better built in crossover? Pioneer had 6th order on subwoofer channel and 4th order on remaining channels, while Kenwood managed only 4th and 2nd respectively.Got a few more questions now. Am I right that it's better to use crossover on the HU, instead of HPF/LPF on the amp?
Is there any "rules of thumb" when it comes to power of sub relative to the power on front components? In other words, how much W of sub power, for every W of mid/tweeter power.
Last but not least... does anyone know a good write-up for a noob in car audio, that isn't exactly born yesterday? Most stuff I come across is either a) written for complete idiots, that need to taught was sound is or b) to specific or advanced. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
Cheers!
Rule of thumb is to have it louder than you would ever need it to be and use the subwoofer level control on the head unit to lower it to where you need it to be. Always better to have a lot of output vs not enough which leads to a costly upgrade in the future and you lose out on the money you spent on the weak initial setup. How much watts and stuff is not as important as how efficient the enclosure is when it comes to getting loud and good sounding. A single 12 on 1500 watts in a sealed box will be utterly destroyed by an 8 inch subwoofer in a 1/4 wave transmission line enclosure on 500 watts. Thats how big of a role a box plays in terms of output.
How loud you will get depends on your speaker's sensitivity rating. Usually speakers with 92 db sensitivity rating can get pretty loud with adequate power usually keep up with a 145 db vehicle.