What to do???
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From: Canada
What to do???
I was talking to my sales guy at the stereo shop the other day. I bought the Alpine SPS-571A components speakers. He suggested buying an Alpine MRV-F340 4 channel amp and hooking up the tweeters to one channel each and the mids to the other 2 channels. Is this wise?
Will it sound any better the keeping the components hooked up together with the crossover? and just using 2 channels of the amp and using the other 2 channels for the rear speakers (which I was going to run just from my Alpine CDA-9830 head unit.
Any thoughts?
Will it sound any better the keeping the components hooked up together with the crossover? and just using 2 channels of the amp and using the other 2 channels for the rear speakers (which I was going to run just from my Alpine CDA-9830 head unit.
Any thoughts?
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From: Fairmont, WV
Hooking up your tweeters to the amp instead of the crossover is kinda like throwing all the money you just spent on the component set down the drain. Hook them up to the crossovers and go from the crossover to the amp. Maybe its a new trick in the book but it just dont sound like it would do much good to me.
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From: Central Ohio
Bi-amping speakers can be a good thing, but in this case, it sounds to me like this guy is just trying to dream up things to recommend, either simply to be different, or to try to "impress" someone. I can't see any possible advantage on a speaker system such as this that already has a reasonably good crossover network. Working in a shop doesn't make someone give good advice.
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unless you are running active crossovers i would not do it. it will introduce frequencies to the speakers that they were not meant to reproduce (read: distortion). i currently have all my components running active but i also have crossovers set on my cd player (premier 960mp running in pro-mode). it gives you more control, but unless you have to have perfect sound or are competing, i would just run with the components (woofer, tweeter, crossover) like FAB150 said.
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From: Northern PA
I agree. Those crossovers are there to direct the appropriate freq. to speakers designed for those freq. Hook it up the way it's supposed to be done, and use it like that for a while.
If you still don't like it, then start looking for ways to improve the sound.
If you still don't like it, then start looking for ways to improve the sound.
