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[LA951 10+ year member]

(yea i know i ask alot of noob questions just want to figure out the best way to improve my system from the most basic one) does it matter if i have and EQ with a crossover or will it end up canceling out??

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[Falcons 5,000+ posts]

some eq's have crossovers on them

 

[LA951 10+ year member]

yea i noticed that so if i was putting my system in i could just put in a eq with a cross over and just add rcas to the diff amps and seperate all the signals without doing it seperate with 2 diff components?? (yea sorry for asking alot of questions)

 

[All_Logix 10+ year member]

give me a run down on what your using and we can give you better advice

 

[LA951 10+ year member]

i have a 01 GMC truck with 2 mr m2000 alpines and 2 cadence daytona but the bass over powers the vocal speakers how would i be able to put in a amp to the compent speakers so its evan with bass??

 

[All_Logix 10+ year member]

well thats alot of bass power so I would say your going to need something that can do about 150 watts to each high freq speaker. That is just an estimation though because there are other things that play into how much power do I need...what type of highes to you have?

 

[LA951 10+ year member]

thats the thing idk im just trying to see wats the cheapest way to figure it out cus i dont have alot of money right now but after that i can upgrade it and make it better

 

[LA951 10+ year member]

and there just cheap walmart speakers to have some vocal

 

[All_Logix 10+ year member]

cheapest way...turn down the power on the bass.... I really dont know of one, you need more power to the highes and that requires a 2 or 4 channel amp and to match those figures with your bass amps...not cheap

 

[LA951 10+ year member]

yea i was looking into that. but i was wondering wat would be the cheapest speakers to power with a Autotek M2000.4

 

[24v 10+ year member]

cheap, clean, loud....pick 2.

 

[akheathen Premium Member]

@125x4, first thing that comes to mind for cheap and loud is the kicker ds series, and used. i've had the ds650's, and didn't hate them. traded them off, but still, bought them new, and that's not too common for me..... as for the title question- well both and eq, and cross-over will modify the signal it is given. so, if you run it through a cross-over, say a 80hz-down@12dbslope, well then that is what the eq has to work with, so you can "eq" that signal, and add, another 12db/oct. to amke it 24db/oct (just a sharper drop in sound level starting at that frequency) or you can use it (if it is set-up with that fine of tuning) to tweak high and low points in that range. and visa-versa.... say it's eq first, well you can tweak the full range all you want, but if you send it through a cross-over, then the outputs, are still going to cut and/or separate the signal that is given. it's simple as a "series effect" the second component will effect what comes from the first, and the first component will effect what comes from the source signal