Wiring midbass midrange and tweets

[gthbryce 10+ year member]

I have a Volvo c70 and I'm wondering how I'm going to wire and amp a 7 inch mid bass a 4inch mid range and a tweet all 4ohm. I was thinking i could buy a 3 way passive crossover and just run the wires to a two channel amp would that work? Or i could buy a 2ohm stable amp and just do a 4 x 4 x 4 settup where I put all the wires on top of eachother for each channel. What are my options here?

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[Jeepjones85 10+ year member]

I have a Volvo c70 and I'm wondering how I'm going to wire and amp a 7 inch mid bass a 4inch mid range and a tweet all 4ohm. I was thinking i could buy a 3 way passive crossover and just run the wires to a two channel amp would that work? Or i could buy a 2ohm stable amp and just do a 4 x 4 x 4 settup where I put all the wires on top of eachother for each channel. What are my options here?

humm so you are using 3-4ohm speakers?? Here is a wiring calculator

if you wire 3 4ohm speakers to gather http://www.the12volt.com/caraudio/woofer_configurations.asp?Q=3&I=41 Im not sure that would work?

if you wired them to 12ohm Im not sure how loud it would get

If there 8ohm speakers this would work with the 2ohm stable amp

http://www.the12volt.com/caraudio/woofer_configurations.asp?Q=3&I=81

I know that would work

 

[gthbryce 10+ year member]

4ohm midbass and tweet, 4ohm midrange how do I amp these? Im not too audio educated m not stupid but I need all the help here i can get.

 

[Horsemanwill 10+ year member]

what kind of speakers, what brand? you could build a passive network if you know all the specs on the speakers and know how to build one. my advice would be to run active.

 

[gthbryce 10+ year member]

two 7inch 4ohm 100watt rms Dynaudio midbass. Two 8ohm 3inch 100watt midranges. two tweets with unknown specifications all of which are Dynaudio. I just dont understand how I can get away with amping all of these unless I got like 2 amps one being 4channel to run the tweets and midbass and the other being 2 channel just to run the midranges. I dont have tons of money to spend and I ripped out the stock deck and cut the din plug so i could hook up my clarion deck

 

[pentavolvo 10+ year member]

cutting the plug = no no but ok

IMO build a crossover

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

unless I got like 2 amps one being 4channel to run the tweets and midbass and the other being 2 channel just to run the midranges.

That's basically what people who run active do //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif That or get a large multichannel...

 

[acubsfan 10+ year member]

I think I've heard of some peole running passive crossover to the mid/tweet off of one channel and the midbass off the other to get by with a 4 channel amp. Otherwise there is a JBL 6 channel amp that works well for 3 way active setups I believe.

 

[gthbryce 10+ year member]

Is it possible that i could wire the 80hm midranges to the "A" side of a 4 channel amp by themselves. Then get a passive crossover to run the midbasses and tweets on the b side? Can the active crossovers in a 4 channel amp operate a set of midranges by themselves without having them hooked to a passive crossover?

 

[gthbryce 10+ year member]

The reason i would do this because since they are 8 ohms and 100rms these need a lot of power i'm just wondering if its possible?

 

[sholiz 10+ year member]

I think I've heard of some peole running passive crossover to the mid/tweet off of one channel and the midbass off the other to get by with a 4 channel amp. Otherwise there is a JBL 6 channel amp that works well for 3 way active setups I believe.

JL's got one too, as much as people bash them, but like 55x6 @ 4 and 80x6 @ 2 ... fairly cheap in terms of quality 4 channels

 

[gthbryce 10+ year member]

The only reason I said 4ohm midrange was because i planned on taking the aged 8ohm dynaudio's out, but since I can't seem to find a reasonable replacement...keeping them seems inevitable.

 

[gthbryce 10+ year member]

So thus the midranges being 8ohm and the midbass and the tweets being 4ohm all having 100rms continuous power rating I find myself confused on how to amp all of this

 

[I Like Waffle]

Id get a 6 channel amp. Or atleast do what they said and get a 4 channel with a passive crossover. Unless those speakers have some sort of built in crossover to protect them from certain frequencies?

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

i'd run a 6 ch...as well....with that setup