Best way to hook up my new amps.

[Hysticali]

I've got 2 crossfire CFA202 amps for my front speakers which are Alpine type-x seperates.

I could do one amp for mids and one for tweets or bridge one for the left and one for the right. Which route should I take and why?

This is my daily driver and purely for my listening enjoyment not loudness or competition. I have my other car with zapcos for that.

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[nismos14 5,000+ posts]

One for each. The ouput should be adequate, and you can fine tune crossovers.

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

ummm... u don't need 2 amps for that, just one.

first??

 

[Hysticali]

Wouldn't I be better off with the two amps over one? More power to the alpines which are very power hungry. I need it to be able to keep up with my 2 10" type -x subs that have 1000watts rms on each of them (I have 2 jbl 1200.1 installed).

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

i honestly know nothing of those amps, but i think it would be hard tring to match the gains to get them to sound right.

 

[Hysticali]

One for each. The ouput should be adequate, and you can fine tune crossovers.

So your saying to brigde one for each side so I can tune the crossover in each amp sperately from left to right?

 

[Hysticali]

i honestly know nothing of those amps, but i think it would be hard tring to match the gains to get them to sound right.

If I set the gains the same on both amps wouldn't they match volume-wise? Or is this something that people have had a problem with? I see setups all the time where the tweeters have their own amp.

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

well, u can allways try, if it doesn't sound good, go to one.

 

[Hysticali]

Ok well which way should I try? One amp for mids one for tweets, or one bridged on each side?

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

what ever u think might be the easyest. myself, i would try one.

 

[Hysticali]

One won't be enough power, of course it would be easier, but it isn't what I want to do.

 

[jblayz1 10+ year member]

one of those should be fine for your tweeters. i would feed the mids more than 50 x 2. if you absolutely want to run both amps try not to set the gains to high on the one for the tweeters.

 

[Hysticali]

one of those should be fine for your tweeters. i would feed the mids more than 50 x 2. if you absolutely want to run both amps try not to set the gains to high on the one for the tweeters.

If you think the 50 x 2 is not enough for the mids then couldn't I bridge each side for 100 watts going into the mid and tweet?

 

[ST33M 10+ year member]

You would still end up with 50 watts to the mid when bridgeing it mono to each side.

As suggested, use one for each and gain the tweets a little lower then the mids.

 

[Hysticali]

Alright thanks, that is what I will do.