Most harsh speakers you've heard?

[mbaoo]

I stand corrected. I personally have never seen a passive crossover where 0 isn't the loudest setting. In fact, I've never seen a component set where they allow you to make the tweeters louder. Wow. That's crazy to me. Maybe that's the new thing who knows. The last passives I've used were MB Quart 3 ways and the highest was 0.

Haha yea. It is definately weird. I cant imagine why anyone would want +3db on the tweets.

It was horrible and that was with just 20rms from the factory amp at the time.

Im sure my ears would melt if I reset it to +3db now that I have a proper amp on them.

 

[19992wdtaco 10+ year member]

I stand corrected. I personally have never seen a passive crossover where 0 isn't the loudest setting. In fact, I've never seen a component set where they allow you to make the tweeters louder. Wow. That's crazy to me. Maybe that's the new thing who knows. The last passives I've used were MB Quart 3 ways and the highest was 0.

Kicker KS series has a 0db, +3db and +6db switch for the tweeter.

 

[speedfreak28 10+ year member]

the alpine type r tweets are harsh, Im not a fan of metal dome tweets anyway, the nicest sounding tweets ive had were the 30mm kicker ss tweets, ive used hertz, pionener cdt, alpine, blaupunkt vc100(nice for the $) and polk

 

[ace_800 5,000+ posts]

i hate mine, they sound distorted at high volumes.
Why didn't you like them?

Because of the same reason, sounded distorted at high volumes. Boston Pros FTMFW....

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

MB QSC's

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Guy had some 3" audiopipe tweets where his vents were supposed to be in a cavalier... god that thing was horrid

You talking about Jarods brother's car? I thought it was a pontiac //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif But yeah , that shit sounded like bacon frying 20' in front of the car. Bad part was he thought it was the chit //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[orangecounty1 10+ year member]

probably bullet tweets, although im going to be running 16 of them, with 16 PA mids, mine wont just be thrown in there on any old amp, no xover/eq, like they do in alot of the donks, etc.

mine tweets will be powered by a sundown 100.4, the new model one, and the crossover will be set and the EQ in my HU so its not harsh.

 

[altoncustomtech 10+ year member]

OMG you guys must never have listened to Hifonics Zeus series 6.5 Components.... Decent bass response, tweeter was silk dome and quite smooth, but the midrange response on the mid will tear your ears off, eat them and spit them back at you. Love my Atlas's HATE the Zeus's....

I know you guys are gonna nail me for this post.

 

[orangecounty1 10+ year member]

i almost bought those for my truck (the zxi6.5 comps) and i ended up spending about 15 bux more per set and went with PG RSD 6.5" comps //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Thedeadly1 10+ year member]

harshest ive ever heard where kappas

 

[altoncustomtech 10+ year member]

i almost bought those for my truck (the zxi6.5 comps) and i ended up spending about 15 bux more per set and went with PG RSD 6.5" comps //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Be glad you spent the extra $15, you'd have been very disappointed with the Zeus's.....

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

I stand corrected. I personally have never seen a passive crossover where 0 isn't the loudest setting. In fact, I've never seen a component set where they allow you to make the tweeters louder. Wow. That's crazy to me. Maybe that's the new thing who knows. The last passives I've used were MB Quart 3 ways and the highest was 0.

this is true, a passive xover cant add more sound too it, the company just changes the numbers up to seem like you are adding, but its just bringing it back up to normal

makes most people feel better when you think you can do + 6 instead of 0:crap:

 

[mbaoo]

So what does that mean in my case?

0db = -3db and +3db= 0db?

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

so whats the diff. between "harsh" tweets and "sharp" tweets isnt it the same thing

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

Haha yea. It is definately weird. I cant imagine why anyone would want +3db on the tweets.
It was horrible and that was with just 20rms from the factory amp at the time.

Im sure my ears would melt if I reset it to +3db now that I have a proper amp on them.

sigh...

the crossover doesnt make the tweet 3db's louder.. the tweet is prolly just 3db's more sensative than the mid is... so +3 is really 0 for the tweeter. and 0 is -3...