floydbanks28
Active Member
Yeah I hear you man thanks for the reply.You are waaaay too concerned with wattage man. Scott Buwalda's Lexus had 6 JL Audio HD750/1 amplifiers and each amplifier powered one speaker. That's 750 rated watts into voice coils rated to handle 150 W or less. Wattage is a poor way to build.
I guarantee I can build something with less than 175 W TOTAL that sounds better than some of the typical systems I see being built, I know because I've done it. My SVTF had a 1996 Soundstream Picasso & a Class A 10.0. That's 25x4 for mid and mid low and 200x1 (bridged). Wattage is a poor way to build.
Matching speakers to an amplifier using W RMS doesn't take into account quality either. If a big box store has Kenwood or Alpine junk with a an advertised rating of 175 W RMS and Focal advertises a Utopia driver at 150 are you really going to choose the Best Buy speakers over a world class driver? Wattage is a poor way to build.
What you need to do is go out and listen to as many systems as you can. Use DIYMA and network. People love to show off what they have, good or not, you shouldn't have an issue listening to a wide selection of brands and price points.
I would strongly discourage your idea to run 6.5 coax drivers and then keeping factory miss and tweeters. It's a bad idea on multiple levels. Your staging and imaging will suffer, you over complicate the system itself and youre screwing around with what become mismatched drivers. More speakers doesn't equal better sound.
Again, I refer to my SVTF it has 5 speakers total. No tweeters, a single sealed Subwoofer, a HU with DSP and two amplifiers. That's it. I've shown it several times and people who have heard it are shocked that I don't have more in it.
My experience as a test engineer, an installer, an enthusiast has lead me to pursue this stuff since 1996. I'm not rich but I've easily spent enough money in 21 years that I could have bought a GT350 by now if I hadn't wasted it. My advice isn't spend thousands it's to be efficient and calculating when building. I have always had to do more with less. Have patience, have a plan and most important trust your ears AFTER you listen to everything you possibly can.
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