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LattimerII · 07-08-2009, 03:05 PM

Forgive my ignorance, but when I was younger I never had the money for proper component speakers and my current vehicle has a Bose system in it that I haven't really altered.

I used to have a Thunderbird in high school and college that I put a Sony headunit in then connected Pioneer 2-way 6x8's front and rear (told ya I didn't have much money, and most of that was tied up in woofers and amp in trunk

). Later I added some cheap tweeters to the front using a passive crossover and wiring in parallel with front speakers. Technically dropping the load to 2 ohms

in the front if I remember correctly, but it ran that way for years without issue.

So components with their crossovers are designed to run on single channel is what I'm gathering?

The Kenwood units DO have a high pass built in for the speaker level outputs. What if...........I utilized the headunit high pass for both mids and tweeters then added a passive crossover (set even higher) in the line for the tweeters?

Hope this isn't a stupid question.

07-08-2009, 03:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
LattimerII Base Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: US Posts: 52 Drives: 09 PG 370Z Sport Pkg Rep Power: 16	Forgive my ignorance, but when I was younger I never had the money for proper component speakers and my current vehicle has a Bose system in it that I haven't really altered. I used to have a Thunderbird in high school and college that I put a Sony headunit in then connected Pioneer 2-way 6x8's front and rear (told ya I didn't have much money, and most of that was tied up in woofers and amp in trunk). Later I added some cheap tweeters to the front using a passive crossover and wiring in parallel with front speakers. Technically dropping the load to 2 ohms in the front if I remember correctly, but it ran that way for years without issue. So components with their crossovers are designed to run on single channel is what I'm gathering? The Kenwood units DO have a high pass built in for the speaker level outputs. What if...........I utilized the headunit high pass for both mids and tweeters then added a passive crossover (set even higher) in the line for the tweeters? Hope this isn't a stupid question.