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<blockquote data-quote="Jeffdachef" data-source="post: 8676610" data-attributes="member: 650438"><p>This is all user error and not optimal setups.</p><p></p><p>1: you messed up when you involved a test tone and AC voltage method in gain setting for mids and highs. There's absolutely no place for that garbage in mids and highs.</p><p></p><p>2: With a multi-meter first off 150 x 4 = 600 square root it and its 24.49 volts, you've already set it to clipping with 26 volts. </p><p></p><p>3: Whatever AC voltage you set is when the tweeters are disconnected, once connected on an actual load, your amp behaves differently and will have a much different distortion/clipping point. </p><p></p><p>4: You dont listen to test tones, using a test tone to tune is absolutely dumb, music is dynamic and has different peaks, you are shooting yourself in the foot with a test tone.</p><p></p><p>5: The proper way is to do it by ear, once you hear harsh peakiness in the frequency response or any stress on the tweeters, you've reached your safe spot.You only need it loud enough to bring the sound stage up to eye level. You'll need to train your ears to detect peakiness, distortion and tweeter/midrange stress. Usually when its loud and stops sounding clean and starts sounding harsh in any way, you are approaching either tweeter or amplifier limits. </p><p></p><p>6: Wire them straight to the amp and get an active capable head unit or DSP. Why? You can adjust the crossover points and slopes vs a fixed shitty 12 db slope on the amp and you get time alignment capabilities and level adjustment to get perfect SQ out of your speakers. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeffdachef, post: 8676610, member: 650438"] This is all user error and not optimal setups. 1: you messed up when you involved a test tone and AC voltage method in gain setting for mids and highs. There's absolutely no place for that garbage in mids and highs. 2: With a multi-meter first off 150 x 4 = 600 square root it and its 24.49 volts, you've already set it to clipping with 26 volts. 3: Whatever AC voltage you set is when the tweeters are disconnected, once connected on an actual load, your amp behaves differently and will have a much different distortion/clipping point. 4: You dont listen to test tones, using a test tone to tune is absolutely dumb, music is dynamic and has different peaks, you are shooting yourself in the foot with a test tone. 5: The proper way is to do it by ear, once you hear harsh peakiness in the frequency response or any stress on the tweeters, you've reached your safe spot.You only need it loud enough to bring the sound stage up to eye level. You'll need to train your ears to detect peakiness, distortion and tweeter/midrange stress. Usually when its loud and stops sounding clean and starts sounding harsh in any way, you are approaching either tweeter or amplifier limits. 6: Wire them straight to the amp and get an active capable head unit or DSP. Why? You can adjust the crossover points and slopes vs a fixed shitty 12 db slope on the amp and you get time alignment capabilities and level adjustment to get perfect SQ out of your speakers. [/QUOTE]
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