why isn't this louder?

[thisisausername 10+ year member]

I have a set of Seas CA18's

specs: http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1217.pdf

and Seas tweeters

specs: http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1212.pdf

I am running an active crossover currently at 95hz-2.8khz bandpass on the mids and 2.7k high pass on the tweeters. I am running 55 watts RMS on each channel via a hifonics tx8800 (200RMSx4). At a fairly loud volume the midranges start to clip. I'm kinda mad about this because the stock speakers actually got louder even though they probably ran only 10 watts a channel. it's actually quite pointless for listening at such a loud volume but it is embaressing because my friend has the same model car...and his stock system gets louder than mine. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif Do i have something set horribly wrong?

I should probably add that he runs all 4 speakers and i only have a front stage...but with 5x as much power mine should still make far more noise. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

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[azbass 5,000+ posts]

tuning, amp adjustments. etc.

 

[GSteg 10+ year member]

he definitely has a lot more cone area than you do. unfortunately, stock speakers were made to be efficient off of little power.

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

we have the same mid //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif.

anyways i dunno man. my setup ca18rly paired with the LPG 25nfa can get extremely loud if i want it to. actually i attenuated the tweets and mids by at least -8db cuz it got too loud.

my only guess is that its your install or setup.