boston s60's active?

[gijoe 10+ year member]

I am running a set of Boston Acoustics entry level comps right now off of hu power. It looks like i'll be getting an amp from a trade that I will use to power them. I was going to go with a 2 channel, but I found a 4 channel that I'm going to take a chance on. It's a Denon 4 channel rated at 50x4 at 4ohms. This leaves me with two options. Option one is to bridge the channels and send 100watts to each side, passive. Option two is to experiment with my first active setup and ditch the passive crossovers. I have an 880 so I'm considering trying to unleash more of it's potential. I know I don't have the best equipment, but I'm curious what you all think would optimize the performance of what I have. Do you think I have enought power to go active? Boston rates the rms at 55watts.

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[gijoe 10+ year member]

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[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

You will have the amp & the headunit to go active.....why not just try them both and see which one you prefer //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif More work involved on your end....but it's the only way to know for sure.

Because frankly, how good the results are going active fully depend upon your abilities as a tuner.

 

[gijoe 10+ year member]

I decided that when my amp gets here tomorrow, I'm going active. I know I don't have an ideal setup for it, but i figure these speakers will sound better active with a 50x4 amp than they did passive off of my hu. Tuning will be a good learning experience. I'm hoping that I can expand the stage a little, right now everything sounds really close. After a couple of days of tuning I think I'll be pretty happy.