installed hertz mlk 165's and not impressed

[BaaH268 10+ year member]

Wow, talk about inefficiency. I would never want to pick up a pair of mids and pay the price they are if you need to give them a ton of power. My Zapco CK-16.2's were hooked up to a PDX 4.150 but the gain was literally set all the way and they had pretty good midbass just like that. I'm sure if I turned the gain up I would have noticed much better results but if that 500w is true and if 200w isn't doing it then I would find another pair of mids.

I didn't say they needed to have 500 watts run to them. I just implied that these speakers can handle a lot of power.

If you go back and read that thread, I think it was titled mlks vs something else. There were a few people saying how their mlk's didn't sound up to par to them either and as they added more power the better sounding they got. Yes, that is a lot of power to run to a set of speakers and very few speakers can probably handle that kind of power, but if you have to run more power to make them sound good then thats what yo have to do.

Same thing with a sub. You don't want to get a sub that can handle 1000+watts and get an amp that pushes only 500 watts and say it sounds decent when its not at potential.

 

[lyttleviet 10+ year member]

You are correct, they do like more power than 200wrms.. But they should NOT sound hollow with 200wrms... Go get the install checked out bro.

 

[MrDave 10+ year member]

The midbass on those was never anything amazing to me. I would just oull off your door panel and check the deadening job they did.

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

any deadener installed?

 

[headless 10+ year member]

Change the +/- on the speaker output of the crossover to change phase.

I'd pull off your door panel and check their deadening/sealing job too.

 

[lyttleviet 10+ year member]

The midbass on those was never anything amazing to me. I would just oull off your door panel and check the deadening job they did.

Just wondering, what do you consider amazing?

 

[t-money 10+ year member]

if i get time i will pull of my door panel, if not, i'm just gonna bring it back to them. I should have done the deadening myself.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/verymad.gif.3f39c5c2fd57527b671fad3efdfac756.gif

 

[t-money 10+ year member]

Just wondering, what do you consider amazing?

x2, my friend is a dealer and he told me they sound like 8's in the door of his friends bmw.

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

in the ones we did they sounded very nice

i dont know what your expecting, but most people that listen to them say midbass is excellent, but they're not audiophiles

like said check phase at both amp and xover, check xover point on amp and cd player

you should be pretty impressed with the MLKs imo as long as they are set up right, which seems to be your problem

 

[slam 5,000+ posts]

i have the hsk165 and was not impressed for the money

 

[WKD TC]

what amp do you have to our hsk's?

 

[slam 5,000+ posts]

Sundown saz_100.4

and i have 2 sets

 

[WKD TC]

well thats your problem sundown amps are horrible.

 

[UNDERGROUND_BUM 10+ year member]

well thats your problem sundown amps are horrible.

lol //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[slam 5,000+ posts]

thats the third amp i had on it. old skool power 1000 moset was the first... not much of a diff besides it was a lil louder