Re: Audio nuts only

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

I'd say your best bet is to get an amp that has a built-in crossover and
is bridgeable. Crossovers filter out certain frequencies. Most
bridegeable amps with built-in crossovers and designed to be used with
one subwoofer, like you're planning on doing, so their crossovers filter
out high frequencies and send only the low frequencies to the subwoofer.
Bridgeable means you can send both channels, mono, to one subwoofer.
Usually it's done by hooking the speaker to R- and L+ or something like
that - it varies. Some have a "bridged" switch, like my POS Legacy.
Anyone have any opinions on Legacy, BTW? I bought one brand new for $80
and it worked great while it worked. 300W (150RMS), bridegeable, built-in
crossover, hey, sounded great. It died, but I guess that was because I
mounted it to my rear deck and my speakers were mounted there too.
Someone told me this will kill an amp. Yes? No? Sounds quite plausible to
me - vibration and all.
	HTH! (I don't know that much about audio either, really)
	-Josiah
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:29:28 EDT CAPTIANBR@aol.com writes:
>I have just inherited a JBL 12" subwoofer and box. But I don't no what 
>type 
>of amp to get for it or how to hook it up in the rocco.  I currently 
>have six 
>speakers off of a Clarion CD player.  JBL componants in the front and 
>pioneer 
>5 1/4 in the rear.  But I also have two rca outputs that are not being 
>used, 
>Shoud I use these for the subwoofer?  What is a crossover and do I 
>need it?  
>As you can tell I don't have much experience with audio besides 
>changing 
>speakers. I have two rca's but only one subwoofer how will this work.  
>Thanks 
>in advance for any help.
>
>Brian 86 16v
>
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