SPL oriented active set-up

[thacarter546 0]

I ended up getting a clarion 785usb and i have been wanting to go active for a while. I need some help with drivers tho. I really like the Eminence alpha 6 mids and i was looking at selenium horns, but i think theyd be pretty hard to get into the doors. Could you guys reccomend a decent metal dome tweet with a relatively shallow mounting depth that gets pretty darn loud? I have about 50 watts at 4 ohm and 70 at 2 ohm to work with and i think the crossover point would be like 3khz with that mid? oh and budget would be like 25ish for an 8 ohm driver or 40-50ish for a 4 ohm driver.

Edited April 21, 2008 by thacarter546

[JimJ 11]

What about bullet tweeters or piezo horns?

[thacarter546 0]

the horns would be pretty hard for me to find a place for, is there a decent bullet tweet i should take a look at? I do listen to this everyday, so i want it to sound "decent"

[///M5 2,833]

785 isn't going to work so well for that. No bandpass and not much eq.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I wish I had the time and fun money to do horns in a test truck for fun.

[thacarter546 0]

Anybody have any suggestions on drivers? and possibly a off board active crossover, I thought the deck could bandpass the mid? ill have to take a better look at that.

EDIT: Okay i re-read my instructions. I can Bandpass the mid for sure. The subwoofer can even be bandpassed with this deck. The tweets only have a high pass filter though. From my understanding i run the mids from 80 hz to 3khz, then the tweets or horns from 3khz up right? What would the slope be set to? its set at 12 from the factory, but can be set to 6 or 18 as well. Wouldnt the 18 be better for pa horns and mids since the mid has a relatively high fs and the horn has a relatively low one or am i looking at this wrong?

Edited April 24, 2008 by thacarter546