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From the factory, my 230 had the amps crossed over so that everything from 80Hz down went to the sub, and everything from 80Hz up went to the rest of the speakers. This was consistent across all amps.
On paper, this makes sense. You have a sub, it's better at handling the lows so let it do all of the lows and leave the mids and highs to the rest of the speakers. So for the cabin speakers I think this makes sense. For the tower speakers however, I do not.
Surfing you just couldn't get any feel for the music. It was all mids and highs since anything lower was filtered out by the high-pass. After a lot of discussion, I made a change. I set the switch on the tower amp to go full range. Left everything else alone. One of my buddies here on the lake has owned a car and home audio business for decades. He looked at what I had and said it wouldn't hurt to try this. I noticed an immediate change to the music when surfing. It was much richer. I was getting some mid-bass back there and it didn't seem like the speakers were just screaming at me anymore.
It's been this way for a year now and I see no reason to go back. As configured, I have 4 tower speakers being driven by a JL 400/4. I don't drive it at obnoxious volumes so this is plenty of power. I don't think I'm under-powering the speakers at all.
-Charles
From the factory, my 230 had the amps crossed over so that everything from 80Hz down went to the sub, and everything from 80Hz up went to the rest of the speakers. This was consistent across all amps.
On paper, this makes sense. You have a sub, it's better at handling the lows so let it do all of the lows and leave the mids and highs to the rest of the speakers. So for the cabin speakers I think this makes sense. For the tower speakers however, I do not.
Surfing you just couldn't get any feel for the music. It was all mids and highs since anything lower was filtered out by the high-pass. After a lot of discussion, I made a change. I set the switch on the tower amp to go full range. Left everything else alone. One of my buddies here on the lake has owned a car and home audio business for decades. He looked at what I had and said it wouldn't hurt to try this. I noticed an immediate change to the music when surfing. It was much richer. I was getting some mid-bass back there and it didn't seem like the speakers were just screaming at me anymore.
It's been this way for a year now and I see no reason to go back. As configured, I have 4 tower speakers being driven by a JL 400/4. I don't drive it at obnoxious volumes so this is plenty of power. I don't think I'm under-powering the speakers at all.
-Charles
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