Car Audio Ques (NO RECOMMEDATIONS FOR NEW EQUIP WANTED!!)

[NutBucket]

So here's the deal. I have a nice Kenwood eXcelon cd head-unit driving 4 6.5" coax speakers in my car. I've also got an eXcelon amp driving a pair of 10" subs in a sealed box. I've been playing with the crossover points ever since I got the setup. My initial setting were that the coaxs were all high-passed at 60 Hz and the sub low-passed at 80 Hz. I noticed that when I really listened to some bassy stuff I would get some distortion out of the coaxs as they really can't reproduce 60 Hz that well. I know that I should have some overlap in crossover points as to help blend the different speakers better. I've tried both the sub and coaxs at 80 Hz but wasn't very satisfied. I've now set the low-pass on the sub up to 120 Hz. I've only been listening to one cd as I decided to try this yesterday on the drive home. It sounds pretty good with that one, so I'm guessin that maybe I've found the sweet spot for this setup.

What's everyone else running their x-overs at? I wish my head-unit would low-pass 100 Hz but alas there is no setting 🙁

 

[tjr2mental]

My fosgate amp is crossed over at 100hz, for the subs... the other fogate is 100+hz for the 6.5 boston's and the tweets use the crossover that came with the pro set. Not sure what they are at to be honest.

This set up works best for me.

 

[Viperoni]

I have a bandpass box that puts out a lot in the midbass range, so I'm running 1 cut @ 70hz 12db/octave and another 18db/octave cut @ 80hz.

My friends subs though, check sig for his project, he runs them ~100hz 12db/octave. He has all stock speakers though.

It just matters what sounds better to you basically 🙂