Ok... so after spending lots of money on cheaper setups I finally ended up with a set of Boston Acoustic R/C series components up front and the BA FX93 'nines in the back. I had a little bit of crackling in the right tweater, and thought i damaged the cone, but it was just a bad connection in the door (heh, thank god!). So I promptly rewired my whole car. Of course, i still have the stock wiring from deck area to the speakers. Does anyone who has really worthy equipment rewire the car driectly from the amps? Because i know it would make a difference even on my speakers, i can definitly tell when i change wires inside my home. And also, what is there left for finishing touches on quality? And to tack one more thing in here, does anyone else use a laptop with a nice mp3 decoder instead of thier deck? Is it clarion, or does itunes just use a nice decoder? ugh.


Also, i've been spending money like a madman to get rid of this hole in the middle of the sound, right inbetween the components and the subwoofers. How do i fix this? I'm thinking about a nice wide eq?

 

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by please.laugh &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Ok... so after spending lots of money on cheaper setups I finally ended up with a set of Boston Acoustic R/C series components up front and the BA FX93 'nines in the back. I had a little bit of crackling in the right tweater, and thought i damaged the cone, but it was just a bad connection in the door (heh, thank god!). So I promptly rewired my whole car. Of course, i still have the stock wiring from deck area to the speakers. Does anyone who has really worthy equipment rewire the car driectly from the amps? Because i know it would make a difference even on my speakers, i can definitly tell when i change wires inside my home. And also, what is there left for finishing touches on quality? And to tack one more thing in here, does anyone else use a laptop with a nice mp3 decoder instead of thier deck? Is it clarion, or does itunes just use a nice decoder? ugh.


Also, i've been spending money like a madman to get rid of this hole in the middle of the sound, right inbetween the components and the subwoofers. How do i fix this? I'm thinking about a nice wide eq?</TD></TR></TABLE>

for the gap between the sub and components i'd look into some dedicated midbass drivers in teh kick panels. but before doing that i'd check to see what the crossover points are between the 2 sets. you may have the sub set too low and the components cant cover that range. An EQ is really just a bandaid. another thing to try is making a set of fiberglass kick panels for the component set.

do you have an amp for the components???

 

The components are each getting about 75watts rms from a kicker amp. The crossovers aren't hurting anything, i have everything set up to play low notes without hearing any clipping. A dedicated midbass driver? Where does this signal come from, rear speaker out? And what size speaker would you think, with how much power?

 

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by please.laugh &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The components are each getting about 75watts rms from a kicker amp. The crossovers aren't hurting anything, i have everything set up to play low notes without hearing any clipping. A dedicated midbass driver? Where does this signal come from, rear speaker out? And what size speaker would you think, with how much power?</TD></TR></TABLE>

well for midbass i dont htink you can get much better than an 8" driver. The signal would come from the front channels, just split the front signal into both amps. i'd say anywhere from 100W-200W depending on the driver should be good for power.

when you say you have everything set up to play low notes what do you mean? do you know any of your crossover points and settings??