I'm looking at running these 6.5's with tweet flush mounted in door --> http://www.woofersetc.com/index.cfm?fuseac...Product_ID=4596

with these 2" midranges flush mounted in the doors --> http://www.woofersetc.com/index.cfm?fuseac...Product_ID=5352

these 1" tweets in the dash --> http://www.woofersetc.com/index.cfm?fuseac...Product_ID=3089

and these 6x9 comps for rear fill --> http://www.woofersetc.com/index.cfm?fuseac...Product_ID=3078

This will all be run with 2 100.4's

I've never run CDT before but I've heard good things about em and they're relatively inexpensive. Does this seem like overkill or could it lead to some pretty decent mids and highs?

I say drop the rear fill.

I say drop the rear fill.

Is it just completely unnecessary? If so I can drop the components and make the 6.5 a dedicated midbass with the tweet and 2" midrange in the doors for a "quasi" 3-way setup. If I wanted to go active, would it be better for me to use the x-over on the head unit or the HPF and LPF on the amp(s)

Is it just completely unnecessary?

Yes.

Woah killer. Slow down.

You don't add a tweeter, a mid, and a set of 6x9 to components. Instead spend the same money as the whole combination on a single set of components. All of those drivers playing the same frequency range spells disaster.

I say drop the rear fill.

Is it just completely unnecessary? If so I can drop the components and make the 6.5 a dedicated midbass with the tweet and 2" midrange in the doors for a "quasi" 3-way setup. If I wanted to go active, would it be better for me to use the x-over on the head unit or the HPF and LPF on the amp(s)

I'm not sure what you mean by "quasi" since the 6.5, 2, and 1" speakers you put together would be an actual 3-way setup. I also don't understand what you mean by "drop the components and make the 6.5 a dedicated midbass" because again, in the 3 way setup you did propose, the 6.5 would already be a dedicated midbass. And it's already considered a component setup because you are using different drivers mounted in different locations.

as for the 6x9's, I say it's personal preference. Set up the front stage without them in, see how you like it. Add if you feel the need.

I'd recommend going active if you have the processing power, and it doesn't matter if you use the head unit or amp's crossovers. But most amps don't have extensive crossovers that will go up high enough to highpass the tweeter and lowpass the mid, so you'll have to take that into account. It might take a combination of the two if you don't have 3 outputs from the cd player anyway.

Edited July 31, 200817 yr by KU40

i have comps in the rear... it pretty pointless.

Woah killer. Slow down.

You don't add a tweeter, a mid, and a set of 6x9 to components. Instead spend the same money as the whole combination on a single set of components. All of those drivers playing the same frequency range spells disaster.

I agree...I may have not clarified what i wanted to do...I want the 6.5" midbass playing 65-300Hz, the 2" midrange playing 250Hz-2.5kHz, and the tweets 2kHz and up. The 6x9 was just going to be in the rear deck. But now that I have heard that rear fill is pointless, i won't use the 6x9's as rear fill.

I say drop the rear fill.

Is it just completely unnecessary? If so I can drop the components and make the 6.5 a dedicated midbass with the tweet and 2" midrange in the doors for a "quasi" 3-way setup. If I wanted to go active, would it be better for me to use the x-over on the head unit or the HPF and LPF on the amp(s)

I'm not sure what you mean by "quasi" since the 6.5, 2, and 1" speakers you put together would be an actual 3-way setup. I also don't understand what you mean by "drop the components and make the 6.5 a dedicated midbass" because again, in the 3 way setup you did propose, the 6.5 would already be a dedicated midbass. And it's already considered a component setup because you are using different drivers mounted in different locations.

as for the 6x9's, I say it's personal preference. Set up the front stage without them in, see how you like it. Add if you feel the need.

I'd recommend going active if you have the processing power, and it doesn't matter if you use the head unit or amp's crossovers. But most amps don't have extensive crossovers that will go up high enough to highpass the tweeter and lowpass the mid, so you'll have to take that into account. It might take a combination of the two if you don't have 3 outputs from the cd player anyway.

In my original post I was proposing the use of a 6.5" 2-way component set (midwoofer and tweet) and then adding a midrange to it. But if I get rid of my rear fill 6x9's, that leaves me with 2 open channels on my 100x4 amp. Now instead of a 6.5" component set, I can get midbass drivers and tweets to go along with the midrange. That way I can control the power going to everything and I wouldn't have a midwoofer playing everything from 60Hz-2.5kHz.