Attn: All PG RSD owners.

[miker 5,000+ posts]

Well.. I just listened to them without my sub hooked up..

Great midbass //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif... Even in a poor install... Also turned my gain up a bit, and they sound even better..

 

[CaptNKILL 10+ year member]

well...honestly, they are a great value for the money....but once again, quality of install makes a big diff, as does personal preference....
after owening them, installing them, tweaking them, YES....i do like em....especially when i think of the whole 87 dollars a set they cost me....

i think the cost to quality ratio is what was so originally spectacular about these comps.....but i HAVE heard some others that i like better....could have been the install tho???...you just never really know...

I"m not going to pretend i have heard all there is to hear, and the RSD's are all that and then some...

bottom line...they ARE good, and if you can get em for a bill or less, then they are a good buy.....but at this point it seems many are getting shafted when it is well known that PG isnt shipping these things out for at LEAST a couple of weeks....

I requested a refund from him yesterday. No response yet but they seem like the kind of ebayers that take the weekend off and ignore all emails until monday.

If I knew for sure that I had enough room for these speakers in my car I might wait it out... but the more I thought about it, the less I wanted to take a jigsaw to the door panels on my '06 Sonata that I've only had for 2 1/2 months. I'm just not that ambitious I guess.

I found a set of Eclipse SC6500 components brand new from an online store (with a 1 year warranty, unlike ebay) for $140 shipped. I've read mostly great comments about them around here and the mounting depth seems perfect at 2.25 inches. I have 2.31 inches of clearance and the RSDs are around 2.7 or 2.8 from what I've read.

They're $35 more than the RSDs but I won't have to wait forever and I think they'll suit me much better.

I'm probably going to seal and deaden my doors with Raammat eventually so these speakers running with 70w each and properly sealed should be good and won't require ruining my interior.

 

[blueshawk]

I did the same.I need .75 tweets and 6.75 mids for my 03 Tib. CDT Audio CL-61A for me.

 

[djeazie 10+ year member]

Bringin it back from the dead.

I have 4 channel amp currently using only the front 2 channels at 90 watts a channel.

If I bridge this amp its rated at 225 a channel @4ohm.

Would 225 watts be to much power for my RSD 6.5s?

Or should I run them on 90 watts till they are broke in and then give'em 225 watts later with conservative gains?

Or just leave them on 90 watts because 225 might be to much.

I am running passive.

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

i dont own them, nor have i heard a set but ive been reading about people giving them 150+ when they first got them, now there is an overwhelming amt of threads with people mentioning they have blown tweeters and what not.

not sure if those are connected but like i said have been hearing alot of people with blown tweets.

 

[mazzasec 5,000+ posts]

Ya I can think if like 5 threads either "I blew my tweeter in my rsd' comps." or "WTB: 1 tweeter for rsd's my other one blew"

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

I honestly don't know how these people are running so much power to these. I only have had 50rms, then bridged my front to channels to give me 75rms and they sound very loud and clear.

Maybe it is an active thing to where you have more control over the watts or something, but I am on passive and probably staying that way. For now, they sound perfect for my likeing, but I do want to give them more power like others, just don't have the amp to do so, plus I don't want them to go snap, crackle and pop.

 

[01 S 10 10+ year member]

I honestly don't know how these people are running so much power to these. I only have had 50rms, then bridged my front to channels to give me 75rms and they sound very loud and clear.
Maybe it is an active thing to where you have more control over the watts or something, but I am on passive and probably staying that way. For now, they sound perfect for my likeing, but I do want to give them more power like others, just don't have the amp to do so, plus I don't want them to go snap, crackle and pop.

I have mine active currently, and the mids scream on 100+ watts from my sax 100.4, the tweeters are set a lot lower because I would not want 100 watts going to each tweeter, that seems wayyy too much imo.

some people forget that when they are running passive on ~125-150 watts, the tweeter is getting all of that, just like the mid... POOF!

remember, this is a "BUDGET" comp set, they just happen to be very crisp and clean (especially the mids), the down fall is the amount of power the the tweeters can handle, but thats ok, they just need a clean 60 - 70 watts.

Personally, I believe the biggest issue is at ~$90 a set, the kind of people buying these are not running the better quality amps that cost triple that of this comp set (or more).

 

[miker 5,000+ posts]

yeah.. exactly my problem... I can afford the comps, but not a good amp..

hopefully that will change this summer..

 

[percept 10+ year member]

Dont wanna start another thread so i'm bringing this back...

I got my rsd's installed this weekend. I get zero of this midbass everyone is talking about. I have bass gain set at zero since turning it up at all distorts the tweeters (is that normal?). I hooked it up to a TXA-3004, feeding it 75 watts each. mids and treble gets plenty loud (and clear). my doors aren't deadened at all so that may be the case. thatll be my next project.

n00b question: how horrible is it if my woofer magnet is touching metal?

 

[Towncar 10+ year member]

What are they crossed over at?

 

[wu501 10+ year member]

I had tons of midbass when I had them. I did have my doors deadened though. I was feeding them about 120 watts each.

 

[percept 10+ year member]

What are they crossed over at?

this might be a stupid answer to your question, but im using the passive crossovers they came with....so...whatever those are set at? i was under the impression that you dont get to set crossovers unless youre running active.

it might be all in my head but the bass seems to be creeping in the more i play them.

 

[Symon_say 10+ year member]

Doing some experimentation i set my gains by ear instead of the DMM, and when i measure the power i was sending 240W with no audible clip, it was so loud that i can hear my sub.

Right now i'm sending 150W.

To djeazie your amp can make what it sais, everything depend on your gain setting, so you can set your bridged channels to 150 like i have mine.

 

[percept 10+ year member]

is there a way to set amplifier gain with dmm using an ipod? the cd player on my deck is broken so i use my ipod...what volume would i set my ipod to?