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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blazian87" data-source="post: 8356401" data-attributes="member: 574798">Depends on car really. From what I remember you drove a small hatchback type car right? Most of the time 2 way front stage run passively is not powerful enough to balance with a powerful sub unless its a small car. When you change the setup to 2 way active, it will for sure be louder and clearer overall. It is also speaker dependent as some are not built as strong. The cheaper ones will distort easier. Basically with passive setup you have a limitation until you have to add more speakers so it doesn't distort. I've ran 2 way passive comps in the front with 6x9's in the rear before and I never liked it. When I switched to fully active front stage, huge difference in loudness and clarity. If you go full potential and decide to go 3 way active, man that thing will be so loud and clear you for sure would not need rear speakers. It's almost a hindrance if anything. If it's a bigger SUV/Van type of car, then there's where you would need extra speakers in the back. Otherwise with most standard cars, you will be surprised what an active front stage can do if properly setup. The only bad thing about active is it is very time consuming to tune and it's very hard to get right at first especially if you're new to this procedure. There's a possibility you can make it sound worse and even blow the speakers if you don't know what you're doing. One thing you will notice once you switch from passive to active, you will see that the speakers are going to be more efficient in power since the slopes will be filtered beforehand and amplified after the fact. Passive speakers are very inefficient because of all the power that's required and then people think it's not loud enough and crank it up louder to find out it distorts. They tend to get hot easily after long periods. Active will use minimal power and be way louder. You will have more control on how your speakers behave and what exactly you want to filter out. 3 way active is even more time consuming than 2 way active. If you need any more info on this subject, just PM me anytime. I will be glad to help.I say instead of buying 2 cheaper pairs of speakers, spend all your money on your front stage and you will not be disappointed. This is only my opinion though. Everything is subjective. I just know from my experience, I prefer active all the way. I wouldn't do it any other way. It's not to say that passive speakers can't sound good, it's just you can get it's full potential with active.Just to give you a better picture, I went from $100 comps passive to $600 rainbow comps passive and still wasn't fully satisfied. It was an improvement but I still felt there was distortion at high volumes and I had no way of manipulating the sound I wanted. I even tried Bi-amping passively and I had a little more control of highs and mids but that was it. It's almost practically the same. When I went fully active, I was getting frustrated with the process and had to take my time. There was so much things I can change that I felt overwhelmed. Every day I made subtle changes so I can actually hear a difference with the different music I listen to. Eventually when I put enough time into it, I was so happy that I would never imagine going passive again in any full SQ system.</blockquote>

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