Bass processor

[TribeamConnek 0]

I am buying a bass maximizer from audiocontrol. I needed to know if I needed two sense I was getting two amps or would one be enough.

[lee 2]

Active bass processors go inline before the amps. There is no need for more than one unit if you have daisy chaining ability.Also the fewer the electronic devices you have the less chance you'll have induced noise to the system

[theabunai 3]

Heard the epicenter......

in all honesty it's a sort of a waste for high end subs like Fi, Si mags, RLP, etc etc...

they all can hit the low end pretty nice and sound good doing it...

the two cars i've heard them in actually sounded much more musical without the epicenter....

one guy just left it in for the SPL meter readout....

To each his own i guess... i'd take a nice clean amp with a good internal x-over/SSF over a bass enhancement product....

to me i'd spend the money on a Matrix line driver (depending on your HU pre-out voltage).... x0over with line driver.... that way the processor can increase the output voltage of your HU and decrease gain settings on your amps that way your amps don't have to work so hard...

[tejcurrent 13]

to me i'd spend the money on a Matrix line driver (depending on your HU pre-out voltage).... x0over with line driver.... that way the processor can increase the output voltage of your HU and decrease gain settings on your amps that way your amps don't have to work so hard...

x2.

I'm happy with my memphis line driver.

[bigjae1976 0]

The epicenter will make most recordings sound weird but it will help with some crappy MP3s or CDs...or even cassette tapes if you still have them B)

The EPIC-150/160 is a cool piece just for the SPL meter even if it isn't dead on accurate.

[JimJ 11]

that way the processor can increase the output voltage of your HU and decrease gain settings on your amps that way your amps don't have to work so hard...

As long as the output is still unclipped, the amp "works" the same no matter where you have the gain set. The only thing that changes is the noise floor relative to the input signal, so boosting the line voltage can sometimes increase the S/N ratio enough to overcome noise issues.