Crossover points

tsonka · Post by **tsonka** » Sat May 26, 2007 4:30 am

I have been driving around listening to just my componets and my 200.2 for a week now while I have been waiting on my other sub to get here. Been making it a point to listen to music such as my Telarc CD's which are recorded at high quality and some CD's that have higher recording levels.

Once I put everything together my 200.2 is goign to be a pain in the ass to access so I wanna make sure Im happy with the crossover points before I burry it. Im not concerned with the gain, its at minimum and I adjust my gains on my EQ30.

My question is I have my crossover point set at 166hz. I found out that about 75% of the time the 117-137hz point worked well. On some CD's at a listening level that was kinda high but still within the range of what I would listen to a times, the componets did not like the lower tones bu turning up my crossover another 2 clicks helped a bit.

On paper my subs have a frequency responce of 25-500 and on the chart 150hz is just on the downside of the peak, but doesnt a crossover point of 166hz sound kinda high?

I know bout the only thing you can do is try it and see how it sounds but I dont have my other sub yet so I cant

Capital_M · Post by **Capital_M** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:37 pm

a subwoofer should produced the sub bass, < 80hz. Thats what its ment for. If you wanna run your comps that high you should probobly consider a 3way set up

tsonka · Post by **tsonka** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:44 pm

Thats what I felt also

Post by **AVICJR** » Sat May 26, 2007 1:03 pm

tsonka wrote:but doesnt a crossover point of 166hz sound kinda high?

That sounds very high. What comps are you using? I have my comps crossed down to 63Hz I know that's low but your comps should be able to cross lower then 166Hz. Try around 75-90 range.

Thumper88 · Post by **Thumper88** » Sat May 26, 2007 1:43 pm

Yea...my CDTs are crossed around 50Hz...since I still need to install my Xenon amp/s, the current amp just can't push the sub.

tsonka · Post by **tsonka** » Sat May 26, 2007 2:40 pm

I gave a set of polk db series 6.5" ................ Dont get me wrong they sound good and Id probably never notice it with subs .. Ive never been a fan of tehse subs but been too lazy to get rid of em

Post by **AVICJR** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:04 pm

The only problem is that you may have a gap of unplayable frequencies. Play with it (the speakers that is

) and set it to what sounds best to you. You may or may not like the adjustments, but it's worth trying to get all you can you out of the comps.

tsonka · Post by **tsonka** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:32 pm

Ive been thinking................ I never thought that it might be resonation<sp> of the door and door panel