why does my system sound better now?

[dcyphure 10+ year member]

asking out of curiosity,

i always thought electronic crossovers were a good thing, when i upgraded my factory setup, i bought a new kicker 2 way, hooked it up to a punch 60 for 6x9's and punch 600.1 for subs.

for my high output i dropped the crossover point at 40hz...figuing it would allow plenty of bass through above that frequcny and cut out the lower more distortable frequencies.

at first, no matter how much tweaking i wasnt happy, didnt sound right. thought it was my bandpass.

so built my own sealed box to JL audios's recommended 1.25 cubic ft, made sure it was airtight.

sounded worse...absolute sh!t, so i tweaked it best i could get out of it and had it that way for last 2 weeks

today i decided to disconnect the crossover, first thing i noticed my 6x9's sounded alot richer and more robust, not a big suprise considering i'm allowing more bass in it but i had it cut off at 40hz and below??

but subs sounded quite a bit better, i didnt touch any amp settings, gains still minimal at 80hz.

put my subs back into my qlogic dual bandpass just to see and now it sounds 10 x's better than it ever had before, i know bandpass is heavily frowned upon but what can i say, it actually sounds very accurate, like a sealed box to me anyway

so did my crossover just **** or is there more to it than that?

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[azbass 5,000+ posts]

i think you just sucked at using a crossover.

 

[///M5 10+ year member]

Definitely operator error.

 

[dcyphure 10+ year member]

explian how

theres only two settings, frequency and gain, i played with each and its hooked up with streetwires rca's

kinda hard to mis operate since theres nothing complicated on it.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Only gravity is idiot proof. You probably had the gain set wrong.

 

[dcyphure 10+ year member]

Only gravity is idiot proof. You probably had the gain set wrong.

i already said i played with the gain..many, many times in fact along with everything else with knobs

no reason to be j@ck@ss's about it, if you dont know or dont care then dont respond

 

[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

Only gravity is idiot proof. You probably had the gain set wrong.

i like that quote!!!! that's a good one... need to remember that!

i dont think he was being mean i think he was just proveing a point....

being this is a Q/A forum... without being there / looking at the problem you are haveing it's hard to help when it's a situation like this..

oh and if you wanna be a part of this fourm you'd better get used to it!!! because this wont be the first!!!!!!

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

he isnt being a jackass... just because you played with the gain does not mean that you set it correctly...

perhaps your HU or amps already had a xo setting on them and you were attenuating at the wrong freqs and creating holes or peaks in your system...

could be a number of things that we may never be able to tell you over the internet. just because you fiddled with everything does not rule out human error.