I have a Pioneer Head Unit, with Polk EX Series tweeters and speakers in the front ,and Pioneer 6x9's in the rear, also two subs in the trunk but thats a seperate issue...Anyway, I need to hook up the speakers to an amp b/c right now I have them all on the head unit and it sounds like crap...Any suggestions on amps, I have a very limited budget...and will my other amp for the subs affect this install ??? Thanks for any advice.....( probally some stupid questions, but this kinda stuff isnt my thing.. )

 

I have four eclipse speakers and am running them with a PPI 14240 and it sounds great. I think that you should be able to get a 4-channel one for about $230...

 

Look for a 4x40W or more amp for your speakers. If you want to drop by the Ampman site, check out the US Acoustics amps they are fairly affordable and decent quality.

Other good brands to consider are Sony, Alpine V12 models, Orion Cobalt and XTR, PPI and PPI Powerclass, RF, DEI Directed amps, Kicker Impulse line, MTX etc.

 

So I need a 4 channel amp for the two set of speakers and the tweeters ?? What would I need to do to hook up those 3 poairs of speakers...and also, do I need to install the new amp from scratch or can I somehow combine it with me other amp ??

 

Did you get separate tweeters or a component set that included 2 tweeters, 2 mids and 2 crossovers? Or are the tweeters/woofers integrally mounted.....

 

I got seperate tweeters...I have Pioneer 6x9's in the rear, Polk 4x6's in the front, and the tweets....The way I have them now, I spliced the tweeters in with the front speakers, conected to the HU...The tweets have in-line crossovers, and I put a pair of Bass Blockers from Crutchfield on the 4x6's.....A bad set-up right ?? I didnt know any better, and the tweets sound like crap....

 

Well it works, so I won't say it's a bad setup, but it could be better. When you install a 4 channel amp though you can do it the same way. The tweeters will be high passed since you have a crossover for it. Just wire the tweeters and 4x6's to the amps channel 1 and 2. It can handle it and I guarantee you the sound should be better since you will have more power available than from the headunit as you have it now.

That would be my guess as to why it may not sound right.

The best approach though would be to ditch the 4x6 and tweeters and go with a 6.5" or 5.25" component set.

 

Well, the way it is set up now, it sounds like the tweets are trying to produce Bass and it sounds really bad...
I'm really stupid when it comes to this stuff, but your saying that I could hook up all 6 speakers to a 4 channel amp...and everything will work right ?? I'm sorry I'm probally asking really stupid questons, but I am completley clueless when it comes to this....so maybe you could explain this to me a little bit more....If you dont want to I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND.....but if anyone can help an Audio Idiot,I'd really appreciate it....
And how does this amp sound ????

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Seriously, don't waste your time with a piece of junk like that. That 200W 50Wx4 rating is a max power rating and the amp section is probably not any better than your headunit.

Any good quality audio amplifier is stable into a 2 Ohm stereo load, so when you wire 2 speakers per side (2 speakers = 1 tweeter, 1 coaxial in your case) since each is around 4 Ohms load the total nominal impedance halves to 2 Ohms. If you wired your same setup on an amplifier on channels 1 and 2 (channel 1 being left and channel 2 being right) then each channel will be operating at a 2 Ohm load. You power will increase according to how your amplifier handles that load, some amps double their rated power into 2 Ohms and some only increase it 50-90% (the better amps double it). In the case of a good quality 50Wx4 amplifier the new power setup will be 2x100W + 2x50W, then 100W will eb shared by 2 speakers on the left channel while the right channel 2 speakers will share another 100W (50W each if both are 4 Ohm speakers) Your rear channels 3 and 4 will deliver 50w each to your rear speakers.

Now in your current setup if your auxiliary tweeters are sounding like they are distorting due to added bass entering them then I'd suggest that the inline crossover is not very good or it's malfunctioning. However I bet the reason it sounds that way is that your headunit is not rated as stable to a 2 Ohm stereo load and that's why your system seems to be distorted. If you don't want or can't afford to get a decent quality amplifier just take out the auxiliary tweeters and forget about them. The 4x6" speakers should then be the only ones on the front left and right outputs from the headunit


Hope this helps...but if you have any more questions you can email or ICQ message me (#23618874) and I can help you further.