maybe a silly question

[cbrei1023 10+ year member]

With a 3 way active system. If using amps that have active crossovers built in instead of an active capable deck, how would you be able to connect everything. You would have 4 RCA pairs to connect. One for sub, midbass, midrange, and tweeters. From what I have seen most decks only have front rear and sub outputs. How do you get around this problem.

Here are the specifics

Soundstream Rubicon amps. I'm not sure of the deck yet, gonna hold out and see what shows up in classifieds.

RUB 1.1600

RUB 2.600

RUB 4.600

CDT TW-25 (silk)

CDT ES-3

ID OEMs if i can get my hands on them

IDMAX 12" D2

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[RJesus 10+ year member]

A lot of amps have both inputs and outputs.

You can have the output of 1 amp going into another.

There are also in line drivers that turn 3 sets of channels into 4 sets of channels, as well as amplify the signal (usually to 8v)

 

[cbrei1023 10+ year member]

A lot of amps have both inputs and outputs.
You can have the output of 1 amp going into another.

There are also in line drivers that turn 3 sets of channels into 4 sets of channels, as well as amplify the signal (usually to 8v)

wasnt sure what a line driver actually did but thought that might be its purpose. I will look into that. Thanks.

I dont think that the rubicon amps had an output. Will doublecheck that as well.

 

[zierbox 10+ year member]

Do you have enough individual amplifier channels for this set up?

Even if you do I seriously doubt your amplifier have the appropriate frequency range to properly crossover all the speaker

This type of set up would normally require a complex signal processor

your radio outputs put are not your problume

 

[cbrei1023 10+ year member]

from looking at soundstreams website i should be able to cross where I need to

I also checked out the piccasso amps which has an infinantely changable crossover according to the website, they also do have aux outputs.

here is the info from their site. all rubicon amps have the same crossover capabilities.

2 channels

Channels 1&2 HPF (12dB/octave) 15-225Hz, or 255-3.8kHz

Channels 1&2 LPF (12dB/octave) 50-800Hz, or 250-4kHz

Channels 3&4 HPF (12dB/octave) ---------

Channels 3&4 LPF (12dB/octave) ---------

4 channels

Channels 1&2 HPF (12dB/octave) 50-4kHz

Channels 1&2 LPF (12dB/octave) 50-4kHz

Channels 3&4 HPF (12dB/octave) 15-50Hz

Channels 3&4 LPF (12dB/octave) 50-800Hz, or 250-4kHz

The 2 channel on the midbass LPF would be fine prob around 150-250

Mirange on channels 1&2 of the 4 channel filling the 200-2500-3500 range

and then the tweet on 3&4 of the 4 channel filling up the rest.

Sub on the monoblock