the profi vandiums i hear blow easily is this true or did the person who told me this set his up incorrectly?

 

i go with the latter...

 

yeah, user error most likely. i know a guy with a pair in his accord mated with an ava 15...sounds sooooo clean.

 

In 2+ years of selling them Ive have yet to set Any come back.

 

then do not ever sell a pair to Avi.

 

haha, the kid managed to fry some bostons

 

He couldnt afford em.

 

No problems with mine yet

 

I have never heard of a pair blowing before either. He must have done something very wrong.

 

blow? any elaboration? I highly doubt its possible considering how well the HALO protection on the xover works...

 

The crossovers don't allow much power to go to the speakers since the crossover frequency is fairly low (2.4k hz). The crossovers use circuit protection (light bulb fuse) to protect the tweeters since they don't handle much power with this low of x-over frequency. If you give them too much power the light bulb will light up and then burn out (like a fuse) before you'll blow any speakers.

If you use active crossovers it's a totally different situation. The mid/midbass drivers can handle a good amount of power (between 80hz-3.5khz) but the tweeters don't handle alot of power below 3-3.5khz. The lower the tweeter plays the less power it can handle. It also depends on what the slope is for the tweets (you can x-over lower with a steeper slope). Also, mid/midbass can handle more power sealed thn free air. There are other variables also, like how clean the power is.

Most of the crossover points stated are estimates (it's been a little while since I played with the rainbow tweets).