Going Active?

[RumbleNTheTrunk 10+ year member]

I was just wondering what the benefits were of going active...I was going to hook my comps up straight into the amp not worry about the crossover....do i lose or gain anything?

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[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

If you can control the crossover points prior to the amp, then you don't lose anything really, and gain some control of how it sounds, usually you have to add another small amp for the tweeters though (most 4-channels are a bit much) That's all I can say- I'm happy with the passive crossovers and am not sure if I could tell any real advantage on way or the other.

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

Yes like bike said you can control your crossover pts. In a passive setup these are already chosen for you so you can't really tweak it to how exactly how you like it. But a passive is less work while active is constant tweaking but its fun. But i have heard some very nice passive setups. but like i said, with an active setup you can choose how exactly how you want.

 

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

Of course the downside is, you may not know what you want, and if you dick up the tweeter crossover point, you can pop your tweeters easily (play them too low).

 

[thch 10+ year member]

the issue with direct connections are twofold:

1.) speakers do not have sufficient bandwidth, meaning bad things happen at high and low freqeuncies. subs will beam and breakup at highs, mids will overexurt at lows. extra power is used on these freqeuncies that are detrimental.

2.) speakers don't automatically match when their useable bandwidths overlap.

for active biamplfication of a 2 way component set, well, the tweeter will have some major issues without a lowpass filter. it will receive a huge amount of power, and even though the power ratings are listed as 100W or more, well, it isn't...