Need some 8" Midbasses

[expo5.0 10+ year member]

i'm planning on an 8500 series mtx 10" with 2 channels of a 1004 on it

plus, it can be mostly just for show- and i'm fine with that

 

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

Already linked ya to it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif


Depends on your budget and if you have any space restrictions. Ideally; 8" - 10"

Also...horns in 3-way frontstage.....with a single 10" sub.....that better be one potent little subwoofer or you'll never hear it.......

that's true, I'm honestly worried about my 15, it's the undermuscled part of my next setup!

 

[sohzc 10+ year member]

How much power are you running to that ?..I have a set of BNIB ID mini horns I was thinking about running with the ID crossovers...I was worried about the horns being over powering ...unless they are attenuated a bit throught the ID crossover....

Now don't laugh be I'm overpowering them to death I'm running a Zapco C2k 2.5 to them it is underated at 75 watts a channel. But they are taking it and they sound great with that amount of power.

 

[sohzc 10+ year member]

looks like i didn't read the whole thread properly, oops. sorry to highjack but i have yet to find anyone on any forums using these drivers with horns. it is something that i wanted to try because of the slim mounting depth of these drivers. my biggest concern was sound quality and output to match up with my horns (Veritas 66 series). how do you find the sq and output with your horns? i am going to use all active crossovers. one more thing is they list only up to 500hz on the top end of the specs but i am sure they can be used higher without any negative effects. i will be using crossover frequencies of around 60hz to 600-800hz. thanks for all your help.
joe

The Sq is excellent and the mid bass is powerful and the output is great but you can use the active crossover to rise the horns or the midbass up or down what ever you think you need but Im about to put a RF Symmetry system to run my whole setup I will let you now how it sounds then.

 

[96MaxGLE 10+ year member]

keep in mind i have 125x8 @ 4 ohms to work with (the horns are going to take 2 of those channels and receive 62.5 wrms per side, and the 10 will take 2 channels as well) so functionally i'm looking at just 125x4 for the 50-250hz range (which does work out well for running this as a 3-way (4-way?) set

WOW! 62.5w going to your horns! That is going to be EXTREMELY loud. I'm going to be powering my ID full bodies w/ a PPI Art A100, which is 25x2. I've heard horns don't need anywhere near the RMS.

 

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

WOW! 62.5w going to your horns! That is going to be EXTREMELY loud. I'm going to be powering my ID full bodies w/ a PPI Art A100, which is 25x2. I've heard horns don't need anywhere near the RMS.

they don't. The only thing you'll have to remember is don't boost any frequencies when you eq, it wont' take alot to clip with 25 watts on tap, even with horns.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

WOW! 62.5w going to your horns! That is going to be EXTREMELY loud.

While that might be what the amplifier is rated at.....the horns won't actually see a power level even remotely close to that.

 

[JonJT 10+ year member]

they don't. The only thing you'll have to remember is don't boost any frequencies when you eq, it wont' take alot to clip with 25 watts on tap, even with horns.

Even with ID's least efficient horns, your still looking at over 110 db's one meter away from the listening position. I don't think you really need to worry about clipping, assuming that amp actually produces what they say it will.