ok i have just baught a set of boston rc620's and to tell you the truth they are shiit, for starters they are not that loud secondly when you put them up, the 6.5inch sub will hit the speaker grill causing it to distort. thses are running of a 80wrms channel on a alpine amp and i can honestly say that my old pioneer tsw1620's were just as good if not betta. they just saound crap, i am not impressed at all by this. now did ijust get lemons or are these speakrs this bad???? or am i not giving enough power??? plz give me a hand as i do not know what to do i baught these thinking they would be sweet but i was mistaken.

[ June 18, 2003, 18:20: Message edited by: vespa ]

i'm surprised at the results you are getting.

i used to have the rallys... even with 75rms from a sony amp they were LOUD. tweeters were a tad bright for my liking, but mid bass was not bad for that price range.

you high pass filter set right? i had them around 70 or 80 and that was fine.

maybe set all your eq settings to flat.

Take them back for a system check. Is the High Pass filter on?

I've sold tonnes of Rallies and every, I mean EVERY customer has been wrapped with them.

It definitely sounds like something is amiss.

Phil

[ June 18, 2003, 20:30: Message edited by: Incar Phil ]

i do not have my hp filter on my amp on...... i alway thought that the crossover will sort all that out. should i put it on???? and what tweeter out should i use? the normal one or the 3db or sumthing like that?

i guess there is your problem

the cross over only high passes the tweater and low passes the woofer.

so if you don't hp the splits they will try to play down to like 20hz... not good at all.

doesn't your headunit have a HP filter?

whatever the case. you need one. without a HPF the power handling of your splits is significantly reduced. that is why they are bottoming out at not that high levels.

the tweeters sound find its the midbass that is killing the 6.5inch drive...... i was assuming that if i turn my hpf on my amp thatthe crossover would be doing sweet fa hence the 6.5inch drive getting nothing...... can any one els back this?

okies i try explain it...

boston don't specify their crossover points
but just say they cross over at 2800Hz

your tweeters would play from 2800 - 20000Hz
and your midbass would play from 20-2800Hz
20-80Hz 6.5 won't be able do reproduce properly. that range is much better suited for your sub.
so thats why you HP filter at 80.
the HPF cuts out all the stuff below 80 so then your midbass plays 80-2800Hz which is what it's meant to do.
you would also LPF your sub at around 80 so it plays all the stuff up to 80Hz but not over.

ic where your going..... i will try it....