capacitors are utterly and completely useless for helping power your amp. Do the big 3 upgrade (google that up) if you are experiencing voltage drops, if you arent experiencing anything bad, you are fine, no need to do anything, chances are, you wont need anything since you are running less than 1k rms total. You only need a good under the hood battery and good wiring/ground aka the big 3 if you are running 1.2k to 2k rms.
no stock amp at all. components come with a crossover where you hook the 6.5s and tweeters up to, you only need to hook the crossover to the amp and both tweets and mids are powered. The rear channel can power your rears. its much more simple than you think.
if you can fit the kenwood kmm bt315U, you should be able to fit the 80 prs, they are the same size, no difference.
So I've ran into a few questions, First with the new set of component speakers JBL P660C I'm wondering Where is the best place to mount the passive crossover? I'm assuming close to the door but since I'm making an amp rack type of thing would it be smart to put it where that is located (In the trunk) Although it would be a pain in the *** and extra wire. Certainly would look cool and be easily accessible and then also wired easily to the amp...? Also There is negative and positive power for the tweeter and woofer but also an input positive and negative for the crossover, what is this and how do I wire it? Also with the new tweeters should I put them in the stock tweeter location with is facing toward the windshield or mount them somewhere else towards the driver and not reflecting off of the windshield..? Last but the most important question... I've also noticed while buying the JBL p660C speakers on amazon it says the component speakers are 2 ohm speakers and you need a 2 ohm stable amp. I have this Alpine amp Alpine MRP-F300 that is 4 channels 50 watts RMS x 4 at 4 ohms (75 watts RMS x 4 at 2 ohms) And 50 watts RMS x 2 bridged output at 4 ohms (4-ohm stable in bridged mode). Can I run the 4 speakers on this amp? And if so can I run the rears and the components on this amp?
Having the crossovers in the trunk for looks is nice, however i have underneath my dash and glove compartment since im cheap with wire since i use 12 gauge ofc and that stuffs expensive. You just have a positive and negative run from the amp to the input pos and negative of the crossover. Not that hard just pos to pos,neg to neg.
Thought of a question while I'm waiting for my items to ship I wanted to tune my sub woofer and sub amp, although it'll probably change when I get my new head unit I figured I could at least tune the amp?
RMS is the proper power numbers, any other number they list is garbage specs to trick noobs. RMS is just what kind of power a speaker can take, not really a measurement of loudness.
Hi, I've been researching about "DPS's" and I've watched a video on what they do but I'm still a bit confused. To start: Is a DSP an Active Crossover? I see really high end builds use an Audison Bit ten or Bit one and I'm really curious does every high end build use them? or not specifically audison but a dsp? I really couldn't find anything helpful on how to use them I was hoping you might be able to tell me what steps I might do if I added one to my system? how I hook everything up and what I do with the passive crossovers. When you buy a DSP is there anything else you need to use it? (besides a PC...) Really hoping you might be able to clarify these things and guide me in the direction of how to actually use a DSP.
If you go dsp which costs a lot more, your results can be a lot better than most head unit setups on the market. If you put like 10+ hours of tuning into it. Usually 3 way front stage actuve capable plus subwoofer. Which means you can crossover midbass, midrange, tweeter and subwoofer along with time aligning each driver individually and individual EQ as well. Basically complete control ofver your audio setup which allows for a perfect tune if tuned right. Its very extensive and has a pretty big learning curve.
Awesome that actually cleared up most everything about DSP's. Only thing I'm a tiny bit confused at first when you said 3 way active I was assuming you meant that you would have 3 different crossover points between say a component system but now that I really read I'm assuming you mean literally tweeters, a 6.5 mid and then a 10" low up front? on top of your sub in the back, and rear door speakers? Or am I just getting confused?
