Ok, so I decided to go with a Alpine 9887 with the time imprint. my next question is can this deck do a good job if I run my mids active? I have never tried to run an active setup before, and was hoping you guys could point me in a direction as to how it all works. I know you need to run each speaker on a seperate channel of an amp. So, I will have to buy another mid amp. Now would I just use RCA splitter on say the front right to get my mid and highs seperate? Now I also read that you have to run it in full range and control it all of of the deck EQ is that correct?

The 9887 will convert the front/rear outputs to midrange/tweeter no need for an RCA splitter. Imprint isn't something I am keen on, but the 9887 can surely do an active setup.

Ok, so I decided to go with a Alpine 9887 with the time imprint. my next question is can this deck do a good job if I run my mids active? I have never tried to run an active setup before, and was hoping you guys could point me in a direction as to how it all works. I know you need to run each speaker on a seperate channel of an amp. So, I will have to buy another mid amp. Now would I just use RCA splitter on say the front right to get my mid and highs seperate? Now I also read that you have to run it in full range and control it all of of the deck EQ is that correct?

u need 1 channel of amplification for each speaker, so a 4 channel amp for a 2way front stage. set the amps to fullrange and use the hu to set xover point.

no need for splitter unless your doing something weird haha

From what I see I will have to have 2-4 channels now can I run the mid bass and mid woofer off of one channel since I have a 3 way set up front. I am wanting to use a splitter since I will have 8 rca ins needed and only 4 coming out of the deck. Also, I have rainbow tweets and Diamond tweets does that matter?

You will only use 1 set of tweets. The 9887 cannot do a 3 way...

what drivers do you have exactly?

Rainbow 3 way front mids (6.5" woofer CS 160R, 4" mid CS W 100DIN, and 1" tweeter)

Diamond D661 Rear Mids (6.5" mid and 1" tweeter)

Since you already have components and paid for the crossovers, what is your goal with running those drivers active?

I was told you can get better sound out of running an active setup. It that not true?

You can get better sound but that also comes from the possibility to mix and match different tweeters with midranges for instance because you can get them to work together with the aid of the processing.

I was told you can get better sound out of running an active setup. It that not true?

For the same money yes, but you already "wasted" some of that on passives.

On top of that I guarantee your first attempt will sound significantly worse than those passives, but again with time and effort you could even improve what you have.