The right amp for all the wrong stuff?

[seijirou]

TL;DR

What amp makes the most sense for what I've got going on?

My sound environment is hostile, my source SQ is questionable, and all my drivers are likely mediocre at best.

Soundstream SC-6T on order.

A pair of Bazooka EL1204 subs I've had laying around since probably 2001.

The way I like my sound has always been with about 600 to maybe 3k hz turned down. I like bass and treble, mids not so much.

I was thinking a class D 3 channel mounted upside-down with something 2 ohm stable on the sub channel but is that the right way to go?

Longer version

I've got a project car (94 mustang) I've been building up for the last 2 years and it doesn't have tunes. Not a big deal before, but I'm getting closer to done now, the car is driveable, and the lack of music kind of stinks. This car is more about "go" but I need my music too. The car is loud so the environment is probably too hostile for any real SQ. Also my audio source is a nexus 7 tablet, not a head unit. So we're talking MP3s on a thumb drive, or streaming internet music over 4g/3g mobile data. If you're thinking that at least MP3s can be high fidelity, you're right, but I'm getting the audio to the amp over Bluetooth through a NuForce BTR-100 Bluetooth DAC, and at the end of the day bluetooth bandwidth is limited.

My drivers aren't breaking any records or the bank. I orderd some soundstream SC-6T components and I have some old Bazooka EL1204 subs hanging out under my futon that have been there since probably 2002.

I won't be running rear speakers at all. The amp will be mounted upside down under the rear deck. Supposedly that's bad for heat, but I don't have anywhere else to put it. Is it really a problem to worry about? Can I help it by using strictly class D for all channels?

If it helps, I'm a treble and bass kind of person. I always turn the mids down, that's what sounds good to me. Looking at my home EQ right now I've got 600 at -9db, 1k at -7db, 3k at -2db. 310 and 3k are both at 0. Then 170 & 60 at +3db on the left, and an even slope up to 16k at +5db on the right.

Can this junk be rescued with the right amp? Well probably not but what would you suggest anyway to match my stuff and situation? I was thinking a 3 channel but even I know that I dunno wtf I'm doing so here I am. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Should I even run both subs?

Thanks in advance.

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[seijirou]

I'm going to get a PPI 900.4. Hopefully it will be up to the task.

 

[trumpet 5,000+ posts]

Do you not like being able to hear vocals clearly? What's with the midrange getting totally killed?

 

[Bwap]

Man that is some crazy EQing..

 

[seijirou]

It's probably just my ears? There is nothing unclear about the sound to me, on the contrary that's the setup that brings clarity. I expect it would sound different to others though.

But that's why I put that information out there. I know very little about the subject in general, and nothing about the nuances between different products or hardware types. I certainly wouldn't want an amp that gave me more level in the mids than the rest of the spectrum right, because then I'd be fighting it.. I don't even know if an amp could possibly do that... but that's the point over-all... I don't know. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[trumpet 5,000+ posts]

An amplifier should not give you any crazy bumps in the frequency response, unless you have a bass EQ setting turned up. There have been subwoofer amplifiers that had an undefeatable EQ curve(Rockford Punch), but nothing like that for speaker amplifiers.

 

[seijirou]

Good to know, thank you for that info.