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<blockquote data-quote="dftnz7" data-source="post: 4554433" data-attributes="member: 587042"><p>Well, every system is different. Some subs play well up to 50hz, some play well up to 100hz. Are you sealed or ported?</p><p></p><p>Basically you are confined to setting your High Pass filter for your speakers to the lowest level at which they can still play loud without distorting. If it's 70hz, great. If it's 110hz, not so good, but if that's all they can handle, that's what you have to live with, or get better speakers. Turn the bass down on the HU first. GET THE BASS OUT OF THE SPEAKERS! Then adjust your Xover for the speakers. If you need more bass, boost the bass on the sub channels of the amp if you have too. Doing it from the HU is sending it to the speakers AND the sub. If you have a sub output with variable output, keep it up high as long as subs are not distorting. Run the Low Pass Xover for the subs a little lower than what your speakers are set at. If the speakers end up at 90 hz, run the subs at 75hz or so. A little underlap is okay since the crossover will let some bleed thru still to fill that gap. But get your speakers set first, then adjust the subs to match...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dftnz7, post: 4554433, member: 587042"] Well, every system is different. Some subs play well up to 50hz, some play well up to 100hz. Are you sealed or ported? Basically you are confined to setting your High Pass filter for your speakers to the lowest level at which they can still play loud without distorting. If it's 70hz, great. If it's 110hz, not so good, but if that's all they can handle, that's what you have to live with, or get better speakers. Turn the bass down on the HU first. GET THE BASS OUT OF THE SPEAKERS! Then adjust your Xover for the speakers. If you need more bass, boost the bass on the sub channels of the amp if you have too. Doing it from the HU is sending it to the speakers AND the sub. If you have a sub output with variable output, keep it up high as long as subs are not distorting. Run the Low Pass Xover for the subs a little lower than what your speakers are set at. If the speakers end up at 90 hz, run the subs at 75hz or so. A little underlap is okay since the crossover will let some bleed thru still to fill that gap. But get your speakers set first, then adjust the subs to match... [/QUOTE]
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