Getting The Most Out Of My Limited System!

[Psycareyo 10+ year member]

I'm wondering how I should wire this up. I should probably mention that my experiance installing audio systems myself is limited to installing head units.

Front Stage:

Alpine CDA 9883 HU

JL Audio XR570CSI Comps (speakers & tweets)/ Stock Rear Fill.

JBL CS60.4 Amp

Sub stage:

JBL GTO 1202D (old enclosure was sealed 1.00ft^3 x2)

JBL CS300.1 Sub Amp

I want as much power as I can get to go to my front stage 60.4 amp.

Both my 12s were run off my 300.1 amp.

I have stock rear speakers for the time being.

I want to be able to properly balance and fade my system...although...I don't see much need for my rear speakers but I will eventually upgrade them also.

I'm thinking about hooking the stock rear fill to the HU power.

Can't I just bridge my 4 to 2 and run my front speakers off that or will I have to run one channel for each tweet and speaker?

Obviously I will be using the 300.1 for just the substage.

I really want to understand this stuff better. Once I have a better understanding of how to wire this up I can dive into the details.

Any help would be appreciated!

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[I Like Waffle]

take out the stock rear fill. Youll get more deebeez //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

Delete rear fill. Go active in the front.

 

[Psycareyo 10+ year member]

Delete rear fill. Go active in the front.

Ok so rear fill is useless then. I half expected this answer.

Now...I have a passive crossover so how exactly would I make that active? I bought passive because I didn't want to fidget with settings perpetually. I wanted great sound, quality and settings right out of the box.

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

Ok so rear fill is useless then. I half expected this answer.
Now...I have a passive crossover so how exactly would I make that active? I bought passive because I didn't want to fidget with settings perpetually. I wanted great sound, quality and settings right out of the box.

The more speakers you have, the harder it is to tune properly. That HU does not have a good enough filter built in, so if you wanted to go active, you would need a crossover.

If you want to go passive, you will just have to use 2 channels of that amp. Leave the other two open I guess.

 

[Psycareyo 10+ year member]

Alright. Just to clarify, I will get better power not using my rear fill ...at all...and just using one channel per side for my comps.

So is that like 120.2 instead of 60.4?

As I typed this I almost flamed myself for sounding like such a noob. /sigh. Such a long way to go...

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

You will have to check that amps and see if you can bridge it. Most likely yes.

 

[Psycareyo 10+ year member]

Thank you for your help!