Whats going on guys. Last week I picked up these Digital Design DDC6.5 Speakers. One of the tweeters was bad so he got me a set of Power Acustik tweeters(200 watts) to replace the DD's so thats all good.

Anyways, The Digital Design speakers comes with a 2pc Xover setup. One for mid bass and one for the tweeter. Today I installed the mid basses only(without Xovers) and they are not amped at the moment(running off stock deck and sounds actually pretty decent), but I will be amping them once I decide on if I am going with a deck(Alpine cda-9887) or if I just use a LOC(line out converter).

I will be amping these using a 4 channel(100x4) older rockford fosgate punch amp.

As for the Xovers, Should I;

1: Use 1 channel for the mid bass and 1 channel for the tweeters or

2: should I buy a 1pc Xover and just make 1 run of wires to each door?

Thanks for all help!!

 

After thinking about it, I dont think I'd wanna run 1 channel to mid and 1 channel to tweeters. It would pretty much make it front and rear and thats no good.

If I keep the seperate Xovers, I guess I would have to run both the +'s of the Xovers(mid bass and tweeter) to the + wiring going to the amp and the same with the -'s.

Do I have that right?

 

Your post isn't all that clear but I think you have crossovers which have 8 connectors (for 2 in /2 out operation), rather than the usual 6 conncetors (for 1 in /2 out operation).

As you have a 4 channel amp, you can go for what's called a bi-amped passive setup.

You can run one set of RCAs from the HU to the amp, and then use splitters to turn that from 2 RCAs to 4 RCAs, with one amp channel for each speaker driver.

So you have channels 1/2 for the tweeters and 3/4 for the woofers.

You then connect each of the 4 amp outputs to one of the inputs on the crossovers (2 left and 2 right), and the woofer and tweeter to the ouputs of the crossovers.

You will need to run additional speaker cable in order to do this and have 2 sets of cable running from the amp to each door.

You then need to adjust the gain on the amp for the woofers and tweeters and do all the other usual setup stuff.

Bi-amping is a good idea as it's more efficient soud-wise, but is more trouble setup-wise.

Hope that's clear.

 

It was clear, sorry mine wasn't. But, I will take a picture of the DD xover's. I have 4 total, 2 for tweeters and 2 for the mids. They are probably 3" long, 2" thick and 2" wide. Ill look online for a picture, if I can't find them ill take a pic tonight.

 

Small picture but pictured is one door worth of items. As you can see, there are two crossovers.

 

Sounds like you can either bi-amp as I described above, or you'll be able to set them up for single input use.

If you do go for single input use, you'll be best off bridging the 4 channel amp into 2 channels, and then connecting the amp to the crossovers on a 1 in/2 out basis.

Your choice really.

 

Here are the crossovers. With keys for reference for the size.

 

Well, you can go for the biamped passive setup. Split the signal from the HU and connect it to the amp. Then connect the amp to the crossovers (2 high and 2 low) and then connect the crossovers to the speakers.

 

ok, I think I got it. I have drawn a diagram that I am uploading now. I will post when i get it up so you can double check it!

Thanks!!

 

Does that look right?