Provo
May 15 2003, 11:25 AM
Alright...well when I upgrade i'm thinking about going for a full active set-up for my splits... They are the Morel ones below. I'm thinking of switching to Kicker for my front stage...but we'll have to see.
Anyways, What power should I send to each of the components? If they are rated at 150RMS for the full set?
Thanks,
Joe
honour77
May 16 2003, 02:37 AM
i tried the same thing you did except mine are the hybrids. Check the back of your drivers for specific powerhandling(mine was listed on the back). Since your powerhandling appears similar to mine i'd say give it at least 100W per driver(assuming their powerhandling is similar to mine) for decent performance. i ran 62W each and it wasnt enough. Now i'm running 250W x 2 and the speakers are rightly singing:D with sensible gains of course. But this way, i'm still on passive(found it sounded best to me)
shiny_car
May 16 2003, 12:41 AM
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Originally posted by Provo:
Anyways, What power should I send to each of the components? If they are rated at 150RMS for the full set?
you could theoretically deliver 150WRMS to each speaker, but it would depend on whether the passive xovers have attenuation/resistors (eg: to the tweets), which would suggest less power to that particular driver when driven 'actively'.
regardless, it's not 'automatically' half of the overall rating (ie: not 75WRMS).
Macca
May 16 2003, 02:21 AM
Im running my front stage active and using the crossover off my amp. although i have 75wrms on tap i havnt used it to the full potential as there still being run in
but what i did do i have the gains on my tweeters at about 1/3 and accedentley turned the High pass off (was in the dark), with the volume farley loud. And supprisingley i NEVER noticed the tweeters distort, i wondered why they were playing a low kick beat note, and they were not damaged or never even smelt funny
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