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<blockquote data-quote="thisisausername" data-source="post: 1544015" data-attributes="member: 565137">I have a set of Seas CA18&#039;sspecs: <a href="http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1217.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1217.pdf</a>and Seas tweetersspecs: <a href="http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1212.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1212.pdf</a>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&#039;m kinda mad about this because the stock speakers actually got louder even though they probably ran only 10 watts a channel. it&#039;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&nbsp; 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</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thisisausername, post: 1544015, member: 565137"] I have a set of Seas CA18's specs: [URL="http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1217.pdf"]http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1217.pdf[/URL] and Seas tweeters specs: [URL="http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1212.pdf"]http://www.madisound.com/pdf/seas/H1212.pdf[/URL] 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. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif[/IMG] 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. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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