I've got an Alpine 200w 5 channel amp, and a RF 275w 2 channel. Two Alpine 4x6's Type S's in the front, and two Alpine 6x9's Type R's in the back. These are all hooked up to the deck right now.

Would I be able to run the Alpine amp for power just the mids and highs, and the RF for just the lows on the 6x9s? The 6x9's have a crossover on them, so it seems like I should be able to just plug the Alpine into the +,- for the mids/highs, and the RF into the +,- for lows.

Just wondering if this would be a bad thing to do or problem free.

 

Aren't type S 4x6's 20 rms and 80 watts peak?

 

I'm not sure. I'm not worried about the 4x6's though. They'll only be hooked up to one amp.

In my old car that didn't have the cutout for 6x9's in the sailpanels, I had this Alpine amped hooked up to them no problem.

 

:/edit, nevermind I read your thread wrong.

The type-s have 25 watts rms, 125 peak I believe.

Does your deck have dual preouts to support 2 amps?

If so, yes. That set-up seems good but watch out for your RMS power going to the speaks, to much they will blow.

 

Just 1 preamp output. I used to have the amps hooked up with RCA splitters with no problem though.

 

Too much RMS blowing speakers? Unless it's a huge over-powering scenario, he won't have to worry. You can slightly overpower speakers without any damage- distortion is the main killer.

 

Not from what I hear but if you have had expierence on it, i'm just going on by what the audio store techs told me back then. If an amp has more RMS power going to the speakers then what the RMS power of the speaker is its liable for damage. But I guess if theres no distortion, who cares huh

 

Tom is right, you can overpower a speaker a little so long as the signal is not distorted and it is clean.

Distortion causes the voice coil of the speaker to have to deal with extreamly irratic fluctuations in the signal going to it. In alot of cases the distortion will actually produce partial sounds. Think of a sine wave being clipped when viewed on an oscilloscope.

Its just not good for something designed for a reasonable amount of flowing when it comes to movement.
Another thing to avoid is having the speaker "bottom out" this is where the cone moves so much that the voicecoil "overextends" or "overcontracts where the cone will hit the bottom of the frame where the speaker is contained in, or the limitation of the surround in outwards movement.

This is pretty much the same thing at a distorted signal but here it is occurring at the speaker end.

Usually you will hear popping sounds from the speaker in either case.

I hope this helps a bit.

My fingers are sore now :P

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