Quick equalizer help...

[DDCapslock 10+ year member]

I bought an equalizer (Alpine PXA-H510) so that I could run my center channel speaker. I guess you need amps for all your speakers, which I don't have. I have one amp for my front speakers, which are 100 watts rms a piece.

Do I need to buy two more amps? One for my center-channel and one for my rears? Because that would ****.

Or, I thought about just buying a 5.1 channel amp for it, but it puts all around sound at 50x5, so I would lose quite a bit of sound from my front speakers.

I want to get full sound, 5.1 surround sound, and not have 4 amp power wires running through my firewall. What can I do?!?!

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[91Chevy 10+ year member]

You could get a 4 channel amp. You could ditch your rears.

 

[WrenchGuy 10+ year member]

What recordings are you listening to that are 5.1?

Or is this more for a video type thing?

 

[DDCapslock 10+ year member]

Well I thought about that, but I kind of want surround sound and not having 2 of the 5 would screw stuff up.

This for videos btw.

 

[WrenchGuy 10+ year member]

Look into an Alpine or Memphis 5/6 channel with 5.1 output.

 

[DDCapslock 10+ year member]

Look into an Alpine or Memphis 5/6 channel with 5.1 output.

Yea I did. They are all 50 watts rms at 5 channels. My front speakers are 100 watts rms and I feel like I would be losing quite a bit of power.

 

[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

A 4 ch amp thats 60-80w per channel would be your best bet.

You dont need the center and surrounds to match the power of your front channels.

 

[WrenchGuy 10+ year member]

Yea I did. They are all 50 watts rms at 5 channels. My front speakers are 100 watts rms and I feel like I would be losing quite a bit of power.

50 watts ain't bad compared to the 10-20 you might get from stock or off the HU.

Are you trying to hear over some heavy hitting subs or something?

 

[DDCapslock 10+ year member]

50 watts ain't bad compared to the 10-20 you might get from stock or off the HU.
Are you trying to hear over some heavy hitting subs or something?

Yea, I have two Type R's each getting about 750rms so I need fairly loud speakers. The idea of using 60-80 watts would be great, but when I just listen to music, I would love for them to go pretty loud. That's why I bought them and the amp I have for them now. Haha