*PICS* My DIY Active Component Setup

[ngsm13]

WOOT!!

Everything is here... (all clickable thumbnails)







What it is:
RE XXX6.5's
Vifa 1" Neodymium Textile Tweeters
Pheonix Gold Tantrum 400.4 (Might consider upgrading to PG Titanium 500.4, what do you guys think?)
Coustic XM6 3 Way Crossover

Going into...
http://forums.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.php?t=94516

Also, check out my new toy
http://forums.caraudio.com/vb/showth...372#post877372

WOOOOOOT!

NG

[85GSi]

mmm i would like a pair of those RE XXX 6.5"s but in the component set would they be enough without rear fill? looks good!

[UndercoverPunk]

Originally Posted by 85GSi

mmm i would like a pair of those RE XXX 6.5"s but in the component set would they be enough without rear fill? looks good!

If you set ANY comp set up right, you won't miss rear fill at all.

I'm in a 93 Caprice Classic with a good frontstage and subs, that's it.
The only time you even notice the lack of rear fill it when you sit in the back seat, which I never do, so why should I care.

With this setup he should have excellent midbass too, so he shouldn't really be lacking anywhere...

[CBFryman]

Like i said before...rich old guys.... i want your sander... (mumbles) GD POS black and decker palm sander and some off the wlal brand orbital sander...

[Diceman83]

...sandpaper glued to a block of scrap MDF for me... lucky rich guys...

[CBFryman]

well i bought my tools with my hard erned cash...except for my Jig saw which was a christmas present, and i am very greatful for getting it. but my:
Drill
Both sanders
Circular saw
rivetor
and tool set

where all purchased by me. but i use my dads table saw when he isnt home...lol. and if i am doing somehting elaborate i go out to my grandpa's shop which has like $3000 worth of wood working tools which, along with your normal woodworking tools, includes a stationary sander, 2 routers, one table top router and 200 different bits for it, a band saw, a drill press, biscut cutter (ever put an enclsore togather using no screws? just wood, glue and biscuts), and a wood planer. so i am actually pretty luckey.

[Thourun]

All I gots it a random orbital sander and its so slow and dosent take off nearly any material at all, taking forever to get done with the volve cover I'm pollishing up.

[ngsm13]

Originally Posted by CBFryman

well i bought my tools with my hard erned cash...except for my Jig saw which was a christmas present, and i am very greatful for getting it. but my:
Drill
Both sanders
Circular saw
rivetor
and tool set

where all purchased by me. but i use my dads table saw when he isnt home...lol. and if i am doing somehting elaborate i go out to my grandpa's shop which has like $3000 worth of wood working tools which, along with your normal woodworking tools, includes a stationary sander, 2 routers, one table top router and 200 different bits for it, a band saw, a drill press, biscut cutter (ever put an enclsore togather using no screws? just wood, glue and biscuts), and a wood planer. so i am actually pretty luckey.

Make your own damn thread if you want to talk about your wimpy tools

But seriously...

NG

[ponchonutty]

Originally Posted by ngsm13

WOOT!!

Everything is here... (all clickable thumbnails)







What it is:
RE XXX6.5's
Vifa 1" Neodymium Textile Tweeters
Pheonix Gold Tantrum 400.4 (Might consider upgrading to PG Titanium 500.4, what do you guys think?)
Coustic XM6 3 Way Crossover

Going into...
http://forums.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.php?t=94516

Also, check out my new toy
http://forums.caraudio.com/vb/showth...372#post877372

WOOOOOOT!

NG

Those look pretty nice. I see that you bought a 4ch amp. What else is it going to run? Also, where's the X-over for the 6.5's? I see that you have an external low level x-over but that's not going to work. Well, I guess it could if you hook each 6.5 to one channel and each tweet to one channel, making sure to split the signals through your crossover.

Man, the basket on the 6.5's look like they could be a bitch in most of the newer cars I mess with these days. I prefer speakers with a shallow basket and with neodymium magnets because they weigh about a 1/3 of conventional speakers. http://directed.com/audio/speakers/default.asp

[Mannyb18b]

^shhhhhhhh. your hurting yourself

[ngsm13]

Originally Posted by Mannyb18b

^shhhhhhhh. your hurting yourself

LMFAO...

Seriously Poncho, now THIS time...your comments SERIOUSLY show your lack of car audio intelligence. You act like you know everything, yet you don't even know the concept or what an active setup is...HAHAHAHHA.

Ok, here's your car audio lesson for the day poncho:

On an Active 2-way setup you need a 4channel amplifier. Each channel of the amplifier powers an individual speaker. The three-way active xover takes care of all frequency distribution BEFORE it gets to the amplifier. It offers a highpass channel for the tweeters, a band-pass channel for the mids, and a lowpass channel for the subwoofer. (Everyone of these is fully adjustable) Therefore, my amps themselves will be set at full-range, because the ACTIVE xover will take care of all the frequency distribution beforehand.

Ok, so I hope you followed that...I tried to be as simple as possible.

The Coustic XM6 Active Xover is consider to be the best xover in it's price range. The XXX6.5" Mids are high-excursion mids, offering amazing mid-bass/mid-range output. I was looking into Adire Audio's Xtremis 6.5 mid (13mm one way linear xmax), but it is only offered in 8ohm versions (it also utilizes neodymium magnets).

Also, this active setup will walk ALL over almost any conventional Passive Xover Component Setup out there. Passive Xover networks are inferior, somewhat generic, and do not offer adjustable xover points like the Active Xover does, therefore you cannot adjust to the best sound for each individual vehicle.

So, this is the end of your lesson poncho...please feel free to stop in for another any day of the week

NG

[CBFryman]

ROTFLMAO....even i knew that...

only a suka would run XXX mids passive.

Tru hommie. Tru.

RE 4 Life, Live 4 RE....

[PaulD]

I used the passives that came with my CDT's ..... the satnet's are supposed to be really good and are NOT generic. Usually I prefer to go active though.

[CBFryman]

Paul, uza suka...

[ngsm13]

Originally Posted by PaulD

I used the passives that came with my CDT's ..... the satnet's are supposed to be really good and are NOT generic. Usually I prefer to go active though.

Tis true, I loved my 560 SatNET xovers on my CDT's. I'm not saying all are "generic" I'm just saying the it's one TYPE of passive xover for the ENTIRE line of components, (I.E. the 460, 480, or 560 for CDT)...so you obviously can't adjust them to taste in your vehicle...whereas you can Active obviously WOOT!!!

NG