HT Guys, need some help. Bad.

[MisterGrubbs 5,000+ posts]

Building a system for just listening to music. Ported to 30hz. Figured I'd be in the safe zone there. Anyways, Show in the road.

I need : Box Design, To know what I'll need for wiring, tons of input on mids/highs, anddd for you tot ell me how big of an idiot I am. Also - receiver. I need a receiver that I can control the sub output by remote, somehow. When I'm listening to country or something and we're not partyin it up, I dont want the house flexin. Any cheap designers in the house for HT?

Two towers powered by just these two amps. I am too **** poor to buy another sub amp, or I'd break some shit.

Okay, here we go

Amps:

Substage Amp

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=300-810

Highs/Mids Amp

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=309-172

All right, no clue what I'm going to do for a receiver. I only need a CD player(maybe a 6 disc but not really a big deal) that can control this shit.

For Subs, I wanted four 12's, but considering the amp situation and my willingness to only buy one amplifer, one 15 per tower will suffice, as long as its LOUD ENOUGH??

So far, this is what I've come up with:

Not a whole lot of shit. Want to keep it cheap, relatively.

Two 15 L5's

Two SD2.5 15's

Or what I really want to do and am considering doing is trying to force Steve from RD to build me two 18" Classics. Just for the hell of it. They'd take the 500w rms and thrive I think.

Suggestions? I really want as much bass as possible, I'm still a basshead no matter where I go.

Now for mids/tweets, thinking either two tweets and four mids per tower, or doubling it up. Not really sure.

As of now, I'm looking at these for my mids.

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=295-308

And these for my tweets

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=275-070

12x60w rms is tons of power for highs/mids though, so I should be able to do all I need.

All help, is more than welcomed.

Ideas on subs? Cheap as we can go but being reasonble, same as with the highs/mids. If the Daytons are honestly the loudest, clearest, and most dependable speaker under say 50 bucks a speaker and theyr'e only 15 dollars each, Recommend it. Cheap, but loud and clear. I'm assuming Dayton is the way to go.

Who builds that 12 Channel? I want to say Dayton does but, then again, I'm an idiot when it comes to HT.

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[MisterGrubbs 5,000+ posts]

Also have the consideration of two Mach 5 MJ-18's...

Forgot about those little buggers

Just want it loud enough, once agian. Someone - anyone? Help me...

 

[GemaRastem 10+ year member]

I have bookshelves using those tweets and mids, i like them quite a bit. Have you looked at parts express' project gallery? tons of projects, and you can buy your subs from them as well.

If you are looking into getting a receiver, you might not need a seperate mid/high amp. Maybe hook up mp3 player/cd player to a nice receiver that does 100/channel and you'll be good to go. Then you'll have quite a bit of control, a lot of receivers have remotes that you can adjust sub output.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Home theater or just two-channel?

I'm confused...

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

I use my Toshiba A2 as my CD player.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

You got a clusterfuck going on up there man...

Also, if you're using amplifiers... all you're really looking for is a Pre-Amp/Xover to control the amp...

Also... 12channel amp? Why?

nG

 

[Se7en 10+ year member]

What is your budget?

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

Im gonna say to ditch the 12 channel and get a nice reciever as said above.

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

For strictly music listening, a high quality 2.1 system will blow away a 12ch lower quality system.

At most I would go 4.1 for music.

 

[BrianChia 10+ year member]

First of all, you do NOT need to power each driver with a separate channel. You can use a two channel amp to power both of the towers, and a separate subwoofer amp dedicated to the subs. You can probably just get a 2.1 receiver that is a conservative 100W x 2 channels; some also have a remote control that can adjust LFE out (sub output).

Is there a size limit for these things? If not then here's what I'll suggest for a good "party" speaker setup that won't sound too bad for HT either.

MMTMMWW tower using the 4 Dayton Mid-woofers, 1 Dayton Tweeter, and 2 Dayton Classic 15" Subwoofers. Maybe a 2.5 way design (M.5-M-T-M-M.5-W-W) with 2x15" integrated subs with dedicated amps. Should get pretty low and loud. The only downside is that the cabs will be HUGE. Think like 60" tall and 40" deep, about 18" wide.

It should have enough power from a good 2.1 receiver.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

didn't Meade do something like what he's wanting? Chicken's 2 channel setup with Fi?

 

[BrianChia 10+ year member]

Yes he did, but inFinitely more costly //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

well the OP never stated a budget.

 

[BrianChia 10+ year member]

That's true, but he did say he wanted to keep it cheap, relatively. Whatever that means, haha. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

I'll never really see the need for all of this extra junk in each tower.

Simple TM's with a well designed xover will do the job amazingly...

nG