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<blockquote data-quote="Jcsaudio" data-source="post: 8627621" data-attributes="member: 673752">All my setups are active setups (see signature). The advantage with an active setup is better tuning ability, less power required per a driver without a passive x-over in the way, and potentially better sound qaulity. The downside is howerever you’ll need more amplifier channels, more speaker wiring, and it’s best tuned with a DSP and an RTA such as REW or Room EQ wizard with a $100 microphone. Each car is different so what works for some cars will not necessarily work in another car.Also you’ll need to pay attention to some speaker parameters such as the tweeters fs or resonant frequency. Typically they can’t be crossed lower than 2 times the fs so in a two way active system you’ll want to cross over to the woofer as low as possible to keep the stage up and stay out of the mid woofers beaming frequency as much as possible. The bigger the speaker driver the lower it will beam.<a href="http://greenboy.us/fEARful/frequencytables.htm" target="_blank">frequency tables</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jcsaudio, post: 8627621, member: 673752"] All my setups are active setups (see signature). The advantage with an active setup is better tuning ability, less power required per a driver without a passive x-over in the way, and potentially better sound qaulity. The downside is howerever you’ll need more amplifier channels, more speaker wiring, and it’s best tuned with a DSP and an RTA such as REW or Room EQ wizard with a $100 microphone. Each car is different so what works for some cars will not necessarily work in another car. Also you’ll need to pay attention to some speaker parameters such as the tweeters fs or resonant frequency. Typically they can’t be crossed lower than 2 times the fs so in a two way active system you’ll want to cross over to the woofer as low as possible to keep the stage up and stay out of the mid woofers beaming frequency as much as possible. The bigger the speaker driver the lower it will beam. [URL="http://greenboy.us/fEARful/frequencytables.htm"]frequency tables[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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