passive or active?

[m48xhp 10+ year member]

i just made mine a 3 way (but front and rear) active setup with my pioneer 860. everything sounds soooo much better. the good news is you can adjust things better, but the bad news is somethings you cannot adjust. wired this way, i cannot do front-back fade. i wouldnt need to cause everything matches well, but if i needed to i couldnt. now if you are just doing front active, then you dont really have to worry about it. but doing this eliminates the effectiveness of time alignment and you can no longer use the auto ta. again, this would be different if you are just doing front. but i dont know if other people consider doing front and rear actives like me, but i just like my rear speakers. but the slopes and crossover make everything sound much better. so if the HU supports it i recommend some type of active setup.

i am keeping an eye on the amp now though. it is now running at 2 ohms on all channels, and it got hot before at 4 ohms, so i need to make sure it doesnt get too bad at 2 ohms.

 

[ravendarat 10+ year member]

I made my own passive crossover network for my front set up which is a 6, 5, tweet set and the main thing it took was time. A couple hours on various calculations and 3 different networks and I was finally happy.