Getting sick of no help, please give insight

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

The deck is NOT part of your front stage people. *face palm*

 

[statonburrell 10+ year member]

I thought i needed to match the RMS of the spakers with the amp to find a good matchup?

most set of components will be around 50-150 watts rms.. so if you break that up into an active set up that would be 50x4 rmsor 150x4 rmsf you run with external crossovers it would be 50x2 rms or 150x2 rms

and for your subs you have to look at the voicecoil configuration. this might help you here. http://www.rockfordfosgate.com/rftech/woofer_wizard.asp

just play with that you will start to understand it. then look at amps and see what kind of rms wattage they make at 4 ohm, 2 ohm, and 1 ohm.

 

[thehardknoxlife 10+ year member]

I thought i needed to match the RMS of the spakers with the amp to find a good matchup?

You don't have to match, it just need to fall withing the limits of the drivers. If you buy a 1 ohm mono amp first, then you need to be worried about the voice coil configuration. If you buy a dual voice coil 4 ohm driver first then you need to worry about the amps rating.

 

[statonburrell 10+ year member]

800-1000 for subs, and then 100-400 for a front stage... imo you have it backwards. I wonder what half of the people on this forums stereos sound like.

i was talking about rms wattage for his speakers do0d

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

The deck is NOT part of your front stage people. *face palm*

Yeah, I know.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

i was talking about rms wattage for his speakers do0d

OOOOOH. my bad.

 

[thegreatestpenn 5,000+ posts]

800-1000 for subs, and then 100-400 for a front stage... imo you have it backwards. I wonder what half of the people on this forums stereos sound like.

ears are tuned to hear higher frequencies easier than low frequencies so less power is needed for the front stage compared to the sub stage. though, most don't need 1000wrms. Most systems I've heard (including many of my own) don't blend well from the substage to the frontstage

 

[thehardknoxlife 10+ year member]

The deck is NOT part of your front stage people. *face palm*

I was not really saying it was, just that without a source unit nothing works.

 

[statonburrell 10+ year member]

so what kinda front stage are you making that is gonna be so expensive... i wanna be jealous.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

This thread gives me a headache.

 

[statonburrell 10+ year member]

ears are tuned to hear higher frequencies easier than low frequencies so less power is needed for the front stage compared to the sub stage. though, most don't need 1000wrms. Most systems I've heard (including many of my own) don't blend well from the substage to the frontstage

ok fine, 400- 800 wrms would be a good beginner system! and yes, i have read about what you are speaking of they call it "the bottle neck effect" very good article.. don't remember where i read it it was a few years ago.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

ears are tuned to hear higher frequencies easier than low frequencies so less power is needed for the front stage compared to the sub stage. though, most don't need 1000wrms. Most systems I've heard (including many of my own) don't blend well from the substage to the frontstage

Yeah, I thought he was talking about $$$ for whatever reason. After I spoiled myself with my IDMAX 12s, and us amps 2000 I don't think anything is going to satisfy my "SQL" tastes.

This thread gives me a headache.

If you kill yourself it will go away.

 

[thegreatestpenn 5,000+ posts]

I was not really saying it was, just that without a source unit nothing works.

that's not true, u can use a mp3 player/ipod, something to boost the rca voltage like an eq or linedriver, and run straight to amps

 

[thehardknoxlife 10+ year member]

that's not true, u can use a mp3 player/ipod, something to boost the rca voltage like an eq or linedriver, and run straight to amps

Umm, then the Ipod would be the source unit......//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif

 

[statonburrell 10+ year member]

that's not true, u can use a mp3 player/ipod, something to boost the rca voltage like an eq or linedriver, and run straight to amps

how do u do this i must know