High Power components

[achapman 10+ year member]

I am having a difficult time finding and chosing a set of components that can take 150-175 watts RMS. I have a Alpine PDX4.150 that will power them off the front channel. The rear channel is bridged and will power a IDQ 12.

I was looking at the Image dynamics Chameleon CXS 64 component set. However, there isn't a place that stocks them that I can listen to them.

Anyone have any suggestions or feedback about those comps or another set to consider?

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[kross 10+ year member]

Rainbow, Focal, Hertz, etc..

 

[tbasile1 10+ year member]

Rainbow, Focal, Hertz, etc..

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[achapman 10+ year member]

I've looked at all them. Focal's seem to be rated all at like 75 watts rms. Rainbow's website is horrible and I can't navigate it for shit. Hertz has like 25 speakers under each category. Is there a online reseller that I can look at stuff that will be organized better?

 

[xtremekustomz 10+ year member]

They can handle more power than what is listed. I mean....dynaudio lists their 3 way component set at 200 watts rms but when you look at individual drivers it says 100 rms for each driver. The passive crossovers might be the downfall.

 

[Latina33 10+ year member]

Boston Pro60's

Rainbow CMX 265 Kicks

Diamond Audio S600s

Rock on, brother! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fro.gif.c695f1f814b01c4ad99fe7f8cccadd29.gif

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

judging by what they show for example the rainbow profi 2-way phas plug should handle 240rms ... cuz the cal26 is rated 120rms and the w 165 phase plug is rated 120rms.... idk why they put the whole component at 120rms, yes their website is confusing.

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

judging by what they show for example the rainbow profi 2-way phas plug should handle 240rms ... cuz the cal26 is rated 120rms and the w 165 phase plug is rated 120rms.... idk why they put the whole component at 120rms, yes their website is confusing.

ok. well when you cross the signal passively into 2 ways, you dont lose that much power unless the crossover is designed to dissipate some power. for example, 120 watt per channel at 100 hz will also be 120 watts at 10,000 hz and therefore each driver (tweeter and woofer) is each getting 120w rms. they overlap in the crossed section and thats where the impedance is halved because two voice coils of the same impedance are playing the same signal, but its usually 6-24db per octave so it wont affect the amplifier much playing 6 to whatever db down at a lower impedance

anyways i dont know if this makes that much sense but it does to me lol.. my brains kinda fried from economics homework so i dont know how well that came out

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

ok. well when you cross the signal passively into 2 ways, you dont lose that much power unless the crossover is designed to dissipate some power. for example, 120 watt per channel at 100 hz will also be 120 watts at 10,000 hz and therefore each driver (tweeter and woofer) is each getting 120w rms. they overlap in the crossed section and thats where the impedance is halved because two voice coils of the same impedance are playing the same signal, but its usually 6-24db per octave so it wont affect the amplifier much playing 6 to whatever db down at a lower impedance
anyways i dont know if this makes that much sense but it does to me lol.. my brains kinda fried from economics homework so i dont know how well that came out

so you saying that you send 120rms to the xover and it will give 120rms to each driver( woofer and tweeter ) ?

idk im really confused now. lol

 

[tRidiot 10+ year member]

CDT ES+ series. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Very nice.

 

[kross 10+ year member]

judging by what they show for example the rainbow profi 2-way phas plug should handle 240rms ... cuz the cal26 is rated 120rms and the w 165 phase plug is rated 120rms.... idk why they put the whole component at 120rms, yes their website is confusing.

What if I had a 500 Hz sine wave, and amplified it to 240 watts, and sent it to the speakers, you think it will handle it fine?

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

What if I had a 500 Hz sine wave, and amplified it to 240 watts, and sent it to the speakers, you think it will handle it fine?

idk , u tell me ?

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

They can handle more power than what is listed. I mean....dynaudio lists their 3 way component set at 200 watts rms but when you look at individual drivers it says 100 rms for each driver. The passive crossovers might be the downfall.

yeah but their 3 inch voice coil should be able to handle some power //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/up2something.gif.dd110ecf3ae4b76050d87598f2f8de7c.gif

 

[Trancer 10+ year member]

Hertz MLK or HSK165's

Boston Acoustic Z6's

Focal 165K2P

Im running into the same issue and those are a few that I am trying to choose from. Im running 220 watts rms X 2

 

[filtor1 10+ year member]

Rainbow, Focal, Hertz, etc..

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