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<blockquote data-quote="maylar" data-source="post: 348061" data-attributes="member: 541144">Nice speakers. Like KLH5&#039;s or Advent&#039;s.Your main speakers should be the ones up front in your doors. This is where the midrange clarity, presence, and overall tonal quality of your system will come from. Spend the money to make them as good as you can afford. You should rely very little if at all on the rear ones. This is necessary to achieve any kind of decent stereo imaging. An amplifier is considered necessary if you expect to power some decent components. Coaxials on head unit power will disappoint you.2-way or 3-way speakers all have some kind of passive crossover system. Coaxials use a simple capacitor to block lows from the tweeter. Components have a more sophisticated passive crossover network external (and somewhat adjustable).The normal way to crossover car systems is to hipass the front speakers at 60-70 Hz and let the passive crossovers handle the transition from midrange to tweeter. The hipass is necessary to keep bass out of them, so they don&#039;t distort on peaks.The subwoofer is lowpassed at 70-80 Hz with no external passive components, just the amp&#039;s adjustable filter. The amount of overlap you use between subs and main speakers depends on your taste and the midbass response of the main speakers.With sealed sub box in the cab, you won&#039;t need much power at all to make a pair of 8&#039;s fill in the lower octaves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="maylar, post: 348061, member: 541144"] Nice speakers. Like KLH5's or Advent's. Your main speakers should be the ones up front in your doors. This is where the midrange clarity, presence, and overall tonal quality of your system will come from. Spend the money to make them as good as you can afford. You should rely very little if at all on the rear ones. This is necessary to achieve any kind of decent stereo imaging. An amplifier is considered necessary if you expect to power some decent components. Coaxials on head unit power will disappoint you. 2-way or 3-way speakers all have some kind of passive crossover system. Coaxials use a simple capacitor to block lows from the tweeter. Components have a more sophisticated passive crossover network external (and somewhat adjustable). The normal way to crossover car systems is to hipass the front speakers at 60-70 Hz and let the passive crossovers handle the transition from midrange to tweeter. The hipass is necessary to keep bass out of them, so they don't distort on peaks. The subwoofer is lowpassed at 70-80 Hz with no external passive components, just the amp's adjustable filter. The amount of overlap you use between subs and main speakers depends on your taste and the midbass response of the main speakers. With sealed sub box in the cab, you won't need much power at all to make a pair of 8's fill in the lower octaves. [/QUOTE]

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