Help me finish my active setup

[jiggyman 10+ year member]

Well I originally bought my gear around the time of the original RE groupbuy way back. Priorities ended up changing and the stuff ended up sitting in my basement for a year.

I'm finally going to get it installed once this snow goes away.

Here's what I currently have:

1 15" XXX (box was designed by someone on here)

ED 9.1

XXX6.5 mids

Coustic XM6 crossover

HO Alt

and about 95% of the wiring

What I need:

4 channel amp

tweeters

Looking for some help completing this system.

Amp wise, i've been looking at either an ed 9.4 or an IS 4085 (groupbuy). Opinions?

Tweeters, I have no clue.

Thanks a lot, this site has really helped me over the years.

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[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

^ you've been here one year tomorrow. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I've got a nine.4, I haven't used it yet. It would match your 9.1, so maybe go that route?

 

[Slammed 5,000+ posts]

**tweeters**

Max Fidelity Neo

LPG 25NFA

LPG 26

Soundstream Exact

**4 channel amp**

Monitor 1

Lanzar Opti

Rockford Power (old school)

Hifonics

 

[jiggyman 10+ year member]

^ you've been here one year tomorrow. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
I've got a nine.4, I haven't used it yet. It would match your 9.1, so maybe go that route?

yea sounds about right, being here and being registered are two different things though.

Thanks for the replies though

My concern with the 9.4 is power, would I be underpowering?

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

I dunno, I've heard they run pretty hot bridged. [shrug]

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

the mids are 2 ohms so you'll have 100 watts going to them which will be good. if you get the lpg tweets (i'm getting a pair myself //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif ) those will be 8 ohm, and 30 watts is plenty for a tweet. just make sure to image it correctly and you should be good to go. what turned me off though on the xxx mids, is that from the reviews i read, they struggle with upper frequencies and are more suited as a dedicated midbass, but i guess mess with your eq and xover and see what works for you //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[thadman 10+ year member]

is XM6 crossover 3 way capable? It could support a tweet, midbass, and subwoofer?

 

[Slammed 5,000+ posts]

what turned me off though on the xxx mids, is that from the reviews i read, they struggle with upper frequencies and are more suited as a dedicated midbass

x2^^^

I owned them...they are also not very efficient

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

Horns perhaps?

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Ooooo Horns.....

 

[jiggyman 10+ year member]

i've never really considered horns before, aren't they fairly big compared to tweeters? My cars fairly small so there isn't much extra room to work with.

So you guys are saying I shouldn't use the xxx mids full range? I really don't have room for dedicated midbass. I've always had stock speakers and an h/u, so im assuming regardless of them being inefficient and struggling with upper frequencies they should still be pretty **** good correct?

I'm really not looking for some super competition system, just something that sounds pretty good and can get quite loud. I had some money to burn at the time so I bought this stuff.

Thanks

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

x2^^^
I owned them...they are also not very efficient

i owned them as well and didn't even bother playing them about 250 hz. cause i was doing a 3-way setup. they are very nice as a dedicated midbass, if you add maybe a 4" midrange tp play the upper frequencies.

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

i've never really considered horns before, aren't they fairly big compared to tweeters? My cars fairly small so there isn't much extra room to work with.
So you guys are saying I shouldn't use the xxx mids full range? I really don't have room for dedicated midbass. I've always had stock speakers and an h/u, so im assuming regardless of them being inefficient and struggling with upper frequencies they should still be pretty **** good correct?

Dont use your xxx mids full range. Horns can be pretty big, depending on which horn body you get. It all depends on how much space is between the bottom of the dash and the floor. The xxx mids are fine, just find a tweet that can drop to 1-2khz. Slammed mentioned some good tweets.