i just recently bought 2 pairs of midrange speakers for my 01 prelude. i bought kenwood ones. 200 watts front KFC-1689ie and 280 for the back KFC-6989ie . now i need tweeters, amp, and sub. my headunit has 3 pre outs. anyways i would like to know what kind of tweeters, amp, and sub i should get to get a clean crisp sound. i dont want TOO much bass. also is it better to get crossovers or do i just simply need them. any info will help thx

 

your speakers didn't come with crossovers?

 

nope not that i know of

 

i think you may have wanted to buy component sets from the beginning - they would've included a tweeter and a matched crossover for the midrange.

However, there are a couple of tweeter kits you can buy, I belive mb quart and infinity (kappa is nice, kappa perfect is crisp - almost harsh) and they can be had for like $80-100 on ebay.

You WILL need crossovers to connect your tweeter, if you go with a cheap tweeter, you could just hook up a 6db/octave setup which would just consist of a small capacitor - found at most audio shops.

The amp depends on how much bass you want and your needs - and ditto goes for the subs. Do you want loudness/spl , a balance of both , or more towards sq type subs?


Whats your budget?

-Rage

 

i dont have a set budge i can go with whatever i want. i just want a nice clean sound with some base but not TOO much. please tell me the best set up

 

Your speakers have crossovers. Thye are simple ones and usually on entry level speakers it is a capacitor (like a power cap, but smaller) mounted on the side of the tweeter. At the very minimum, the tweeter has a crossover to keep it from playing too low. if the tweeter didn't have a crossover, it would blow when at high excursions or volumes, the tweeters voice coil would jump out of the voice coil gap. It's okay for a woofer to play full range. These 2 way or 3 way speakers (on a single chassis) have very simple crossovers. They separate the frequencies between the tweeter and the woofer. Generally, at frequencies where the tweeter start playing, the woofer(mid) stops. On cheaper speakers, that only have a crossoover on the tweeter, the woofer plays full range.

On more expensive speakers, the tweeter and woofer are separate and they have a more sophisticated crossover. The crossover is a separate box that sends the highs to the tweeter and lows to the woofer. It also allows better transition between the two speakers. You connect the crossover to the amp and the speakers to the crossovers.

These crossovers are called PASSIVE crossovers because they are installed AFTER the amplifier.

Virtually all amps have a electronic or ACTIVE crossover. This is done before the signal is amplifed. A lot of todays headunits (decks) have crossovers built in. In 99.9% of the systems out there, the active or electronic crossover is used to keep the highs out of the subwoofer and lows out of the front and back speakers. After the lows are filtered out of your front and back speaker amp, the passive crossovers again do more filtering, to keep the highs going to the tweeter and mids going to the midrange.

I think your KFC1689ies have tweeters in the middle of them, as well as your rear speakers. If you want separate tweeters, you should return the front speakers and get a component speakers, where you have a mid and a tweeter and a crossver (passive) designed for those speakers only.

What deck do you have? A model number would be useful too. What kind of music do you listen to? define too much bass.... I find that a lot of people claim they don't want too much bass, but end up getting a subwoofer that doesn't have enough output capability and they end up blowing it. You can turn your subwoofer level up and down from your deck.