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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 3700019" data-attributes="member: 550915">The smaller 2 channel would have had less headroom in theory but it would have run cooler.&nbsp; You won&#039;t need all the power from the smaller amp and bridging the bigger one is going to make it run a little warm (still not too bad though with the gains set conservatively).To run active, you would ditch the passive units that came with the component set entirely. You would then need some sort of external preamp level crossover either from the headunit or a stand alone.&nbsp; From there you would run the tweeters off the front channels of the amp with the crossover setting the highpass freq for them and the mids off the rear channels with the crossover providing a bandpass for them.&nbsp; The last thing that you would need is a ton a patience to get it all set up and sounding good.&nbsp; Active has the possibility to sound better than passive, but it takes more work just to get it to sound as good.&nbsp; With just a basic crossover, breaking even on the passive setup is about the best you can reasonably hope for, but bring in a nice processing suite like the Alpine H01 or 9887 with the Imprint module, the Rockford 3.sixty or the Pioneer PRS-880 and the potential is really only limited by the drivers themselves and the tuning ability and patience of the person setting it up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 3700019, member: 550915"] The smaller 2 channel would have had less headroom in theory but it would have run cooler. You won't need all the power from the smaller amp and bridging the bigger one is going to make it run a little warm (still not too bad though with the gains set conservatively). To run active, you would ditch the passive units that came with the component set entirely. You would then need some sort of external preamp level crossover either from the headunit or a stand alone. From there you would run the tweeters off the front channels of the amp with the crossover setting the highpass freq for them and the mids off the rear channels with the crossover providing a bandpass for them. The last thing that you would need is a ton a patience to get it all set up and sounding good. Active has the possibility to sound better than passive, but it takes more work just to get it to sound as good. With just a basic crossover, breaking even on the passive setup is about the best you can reasonably hope for, but bring in a nice processing suite like the Alpine H01 or 9887 with the Imprint module, the Rockford 3.sixty or the Pioneer PRS-880 and the potential is really only limited by the drivers themselves and the tuning ability and patience of the person setting it up. [/QUOTE]

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