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| Xam:
Infinity makes good car speakers also. As mentioned previously...depends on budget...if you can Infinity Kappas are better than the Reference series. They do cost more though. Best thing to do...try them in the store. Set all the tone controls to "flat" (in other words don't use them to modify the sound) and then listen. Xam |
| MaximRecoil:
First you should find out what the impedance is of the existing speakers in the Klipsh ProMedia 2.1 system. You can damage an amplifier if you run speakers that are a lower impedance than the amp is designed to be stable at, e.g., 4 ohm speakers with an 8 ohm stable stereo amplifier. In any event, you probably won't notice much of a difference between car speakers and the speakers already in the setup. In fact, the speakers already in the setup will probably sound better given that they are in an enclosure that was specifically designed for them. MB Quart is generally considered to make the best coaxial car speakers, but they tend to want a lot of power to drive them, or else they won't sound so great. A 100W x 2 @ 4 ohms amp would be good for a good set of MB Quart coaxials. For better sound, you'd want component speakers, that is, a pair of [usually 6.5"] midrange drivers and a pair of separate tweeters, with a passive 2-way crossover (usually 12 or 24 dB per octave). But again, you need a lot of power for quality component speakers, with 100W x 2 @ 4 ohms being minimum (I prefer 400 to 500W x 2 @ 4ohms for a pair of quality component speakers). --- Quote ---I'm assuming the Klipsh amp can provide 4ohms (although I couldn't find it mentioned in the specs) and this would be good for any 4ohm car speakers?? --- End quote --- It isn't a matter of the amp "providing" 4 ohms; it is a matter of the amp "seeing" 4 ohms. You can hook any amp up to 4 ohm speakers, and it will work, but some amps (typical home audio amps for example, which are usually designed for an 8 ohm load) won't like it -- it sends more current through them than they are designed to be stable at, and if the amp doesn't have a protection/limiting circuit built in, it could damage the amp sooner or later. Anyway, PC speaker manufacturers are in the business of making their stuff sound good with limited space and power in mind; a lot of engineering/experience goes into this. If you can randomly swap out a component of the system such as the speakers and have it end up sounding better than what you already have, it will be freak luck. It would be easy to start from scratch and make it sound better though, just throw a lot of money at it. Or you could make it sound better by starting from scratch and doing a lot of research, which should result in having to throw far less money at it, but a lot more time. Or you could get lucky with the off-the-shelf coaxial car speakers. |
| 4Aaron GE:
Well, all documentation online says it the Klipsch runs a 4 ohm setup, so he should be okay with 4 ohm drivers. And since these will be going into the jukebox, the drivers will have new, properly sized enclosures. As long as the drivers aren't being too underpowered, everything should be okay. |
| MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: 4Aaron GE on May 05, 2007, 02:33:31 pm ---Well, all documentation online says it the Klipsch runs a 4 ohm setup, so he should be okay with 4 ohm drivers. --- End quote --- Yeah, that'll work then. --- Quote ---And since these will be going into the jukebox, the drivers will have new, properly sized enclosures. As long as the drivers aren't being too underpowered, everything should be okay. --- End quote --- I'm still skeptical regarding him being able to improve on the sound he gets out of the system currently. The speakers already in the system are probably well-matched to the amp as it is. By choosing the right combination of sensitivity, cone area, and cone travel, as well as the right enclosure type/size, he *may* be able to improve on volume and/or SQ, but I have a feeling that Klipsh already put a pretty good combination of these elements into the system in the first place. Now if he were to get a bigger amp, I'd suggest he get Madisound to hook him up with some nice 6" to 8" midrange drivers, a pair of tweeters, and have them design and build him a pair of passive crossovers for his particular application. This could net very high-end sound for relatively cheap. His current amp claims 55W x 2, which is *okay* at best, but that is measured at 1% THD, which is right at the upper limit before distortion becomes audible (notice his subwoofer amp was measured at 7% (!) THD -- to claim 50 watts based on a ridiculously high 7% THD measurement borders on fraud IMO). A high quality 55W amp would be measured at more like .1% THD. In other words, it isn't what I'd consider to be a "true" 55W x 2 amp. Also, if I had to guess, it is probably an "amp on a chip" design, like you see in car audio head units; which doesn't have the headroom of a "real" amp using large toroidal transformers and the such. |
| 4Aaron GE:
Hmmm... I never bother to check on those. (Ick! 7%?) MPTech, I think you're in a bit of a bind here. I know you've already paid for the amp/sub/speaker setup, but you might have to end up spending more on this. |
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