no flippin idear wut crossover to get?

[loudaccent 10+ year member]

ok i dont know wut kind of crossover i have to get. i will be useing a jblA3000gti to power like 4 8 "Selenium mids an Eminence twetters.. can some one point me in the right direction thanks

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[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I have no flippin idear what you just said, either...

That sounds like an aural cluster**** in the making, you probably could get away with using prebuilt passive crossovers.

 

[loudaccent 10+ year member]

could a premade crossover handel , many speakers in to one crossover because i dont wann ahave to buy 6 cross overs..

 

[ebrunn 10+ year member]

Why not run them all active?

 

[Twilight 10+ year member]

As that is a two channel amp, if you want to run both woofers and tweeters, you are probably going to need passive crossovers. Those are going to have to be some pretty hardcore drivers too, because at 1670 watts per channel and 8 drivers on each (if you're doing 4 mids and 4 tweets per side) you're running over 200W per driver.

 

[loudaccent 10+ year member]

i kinda figured i could run all the mids threw one channel an all the tweets threw that other,, but i guess you guys are saying that wont work.

 

[Twilight 10+ year member]

Well, you could, but it would sound like crap. Music is recorded in two channels in order to create a 'soundstage', essentially the impression that certain sounds are being reproduced in certain places around the room (or car). Running all mids on one side and all tweeters on the other would give you monophonic sound, which means you wouldn't have a car stereo, you'd have a car mono. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif (Yes I know this is a perversion of terminology, I'm just joking around.)

You may not care, but if your mids are only playing say from the left channel, anything recorded on the right channel would not be reproduced and it wouldn't sound right.

Check this out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereophonic_sound

Subwoofers on the other hand can run perfectly fine from one channel, because your ears cannot localize sounds of such a low frequency.

 

[orangecounty1 10+ year member]

the eminence tweets will blow if you cross them too low, and give them too much power...just a heads up.