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[killaklown]

Hi everyone,

got a question for some of you.

I have a set of Focal Utopia 165w with Audiobahn 10"'s waiting to be installed. Added to that I have purchased a DD M1 and I am looking at buying a DD C4. Now I have been pondering many question's. First of all I was going to get a C2 and just run the focals off each channel, now the C4 will possibly be used to biamp the focal's.
BUT it has also been presented to me that I can run the system full active with the onboard filters on the amp.

My question is watt would you do if you were in my sistuation and watt are the frequency ranges for the midbass and the tweeter in the focals. Now if i had the right info I believe I could tune the system myself(after all im the one listening to it ). Would you go the active or would you just leave the passive crossover supplied with the speakers?

Cheers

[Brucee]

can u do biamp with the standard focal crossover? either way, try both method, then u can decide which one sound better

[killaklown]

yeah the focal crossover has biamp abilities I spose I can try that.
Also suppose I was to go active, would the amp's filtering features be good enough or would I be better buying a full eq unit??

[PartyJase]

i used to have utopias and found they sounded much better biamped through the passive crossover than using just the standard connections. they displayed greater dynamics and the whole setup had more "life" to it.

but hey its pretty easy so try them both ways

[JMlab.]

i find the utopia speaker u mention sound best on the v12 alpine series amps and the audison, tuned from the amp without x over, cross the tweeter over on high pass at around 3 khz or slightly higher, and the midbass run bandpass between say 70 hz and 4khz depending on power levels etc..

[killaklown]

as much as they are nice amps I was going a bit of show factor so trying to keep the amps of the same brand so ill only consider the C4 atm, hmmm so if i run it without the xover i can do that fine off of the amp thats good.
will the mid's take the 150wrms without stress as with the tweeters and 75?

[PartyJase]

as long as its a clean signal and not clipping then you can pretty much thrown as much power as them as you want. then just becomes a matter of where you set ur gains so that you get the right balance between tweeter and mid