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<blockquote data-quote="revoh" data-source="post: 99233" data-attributes="member: 541663"><p>I am about to get my full system installed (just waiting on my brahma15) and have been talking to a local install shop about my installation. The owner is the guy who is helping me and seems to be real knowledgeable about installing. Anyways, I have a set of Infinity Kappa Perfect 6.1's and he is saying that I should bypass the supplied crossover and use the active crossovers on the amplifier instead of the passive crossovers that came with it because passive crossovers cause a loss of signal. I am not sure if you call this bi-amping or bi-wiring but he wants me to get a 4 channel amp (4x50 rms) and run each of the 4 channels to each individual speaker in my component set. That would be 50watts to each tweeter and 50 watts to each woofer.</p><p></p><p>However, in my manual is states this:</p><p></p><p>The combined responses of the speakers and passive crossover constitute 4th-order Linquitz-Riley acoustic alignment and cannot be duplicated by any electronic crossover currently available for car audio use.</p><p></p><p>I showed that to the installer and he still thinks it will sound better with his method of bypassing the crossovers. What do you guys think? Is the 4th-order Linquitz-Riley thing really that important or is it just manufacturer hype? I'd appreciate any thoughts on this. Thanks!</p><p></p><p>-revoh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="revoh, post: 99233, member: 541663"] I am about to get my full system installed (just waiting on my brahma15) and have been talking to a local install shop about my installation. The owner is the guy who is helping me and seems to be real knowledgeable about installing. Anyways, I have a set of Infinity Kappa Perfect 6.1's and he is saying that I should bypass the supplied crossover and use the active crossovers on the amplifier instead of the passive crossovers that came with it because passive crossovers cause a loss of signal. I am not sure if you call this bi-amping or bi-wiring but he wants me to get a 4 channel amp (4x50 rms) and run each of the 4 channels to each individual speaker in my component set. That would be 50watts to each tweeter and 50 watts to each woofer. However, in my manual is states this: The combined responses of the speakers and passive crossover constitute 4th-order Linquitz-Riley acoustic alignment and cannot be duplicated by any electronic crossover currently available for car audio use. I showed that to the installer and he still thinks it will sound better with his method of bypassing the crossovers. What do you guys think? Is the 4th-order Linquitz-Riley thing really that important or is it just manufacturer hype? I'd appreciate any thoughts on this. Thanks! -revoh [/QUOTE]
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