see ^^^ as long as you don't care about losing balance of your front speakers you can simply bridge 2 channels of a roughly 50-60 watt rms four channel to adequately power the fronts and use the separate channels to power the half as power hungry rears...


edit: is there such thing as separate front/rear gains, i have never checked for that

 

I agree, one amp for your treble and one for your subs would be more efficient. By the way, how are the Spods in comparison to the Lucid rears? for the head unit check out alpines new stuff coming in summer of '04. THe head unit especially...DXI-9990

 

Beats me - that's why I was thinking a two channel for the fronts, another 2 channel bridged for the rear and then maybe a third (!) for the rears. That's the part where I'm lost.

 

Steve,
listen,
I think you are putting your money in the right places, the fronts and the sub. Both will have adequate power and great drivers. I wouldn't worry about amping your rears. Buy a decent set of components that are made to run on low power, utilize your fader and see how it sounds. If you are not satisfied in imaging or power, step up to amping the rears in mono. Use time and experience to make your decisions, there is no reason to figure it all out now.

you won't know how it sounds until it is all installed. Give yourself options to tweak it then.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Willie Gee
Steve,
listen,
I think you are putting your money in the right places, the fronts and the sub.

 

Well, I've got a pretty nice setup in my van and my rears are powered by my Headunit. It works out fine. I went throught the same dilemma, but i never ended up buying a seperate amp for the rears. IMO you want to have a fader more than you want to amp the rears. but that's my .02

you might have read this in another thread,

Have you ever been to a concert? Well that's the listening environment your sound system is based on. The bulk of the sound is coming from two channels up front. This is your front sound stage. Most, if not all, of the imaging takes place here. (Imagine Led Zeppelin where the sound goes from your left channel to your right.) The sound bounces off the rear wall of that concert hall making for a fuller sound. That is the role of our rears, to emulate the sound bouncing off that rear wall. In a car we don't have a rear wall so we use filler speakers. If your system is balanced correctly you should not distinctly hear your rears. However if you turn them off, your system would lose that "full sound." It is not the job of the rears to give you the music experience, that is left up to the fronts. Your rears are filler.

SOooo, you don't really need all that much for your rears.

 

very true, don't ask me what i was thinking about the front losing balance, my brain just isn't all there today....

however i put rears in my 04 s and they aren't the spods but they make a hell of a difference... even blocked behind the seat

this kind of brings you back to a nice 5 channel single amp solution....

edit: i was just thinking of losing the volume balance control, that whole signal thing kinda got left at home...

i also did some checking and most 4 channel amps have separate front and rear gains... so you could still get a 4 channel powerful enough to power the fronts and turn down for the rears, and a separate sub amp...

it was much easier when i did this stuff 8-10 years ago, there weren't so many choices!

 

Amen brother.

 

so far, wow... looks to be a nice setup and some big $$ too...

if you want to save a little change, consider the Focal 130A (Access) speakers for the S-pods. it'll save you a $100 or so, and w/ them being mainly fill... you probably won't notice. try to go and listen to a set of the Access and the Polyglass (V2), and differentiate for yourself...

[QUOTE]Originally posted by steve0617

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by PJK3
if you want to save a little change, consider the Focal 130A (Access) speakers for the S-pods.