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yea i was looking at the eclipse website and that 8455 caught my eye.. so many awesome features!!

earlier today i was looking for audio control products online but couldnt find any.. can anyone point me in the direction of where to find them?

Randy

No problem man.

Honestly I wouldn't do passive, unless they came with the components. Yeah it may be cheaper, but most won't give you the control you want, and may not work well with your tweeters.

If you looking for total control I would look into a crossover / eq combo like the audio control DQX.

If you don't want to spend that much the audio control 4xs would work, or upgrade your deck to somethin like the Eclipse 8445, or 8455. The eclipse decks basically do everything for you, so they are very easy to set up. If you want to know more about them look at my review of the 8455 in the review section.

do you know of any separate passive crossovers that are bi-amp compatible? and what kind of specs should i look for when shopping for either the inline or passive crossover? sorry for so many questions jeremy, just trying to do things right.

Randy

Yep you need a crossover inline before the amp, or you need components that their crossover is bi-amp compatable (2 inputs)

i just looked at the pic of my amp that i saved, the HPF only goes up to 200Hz.. thats WAY too low of a freq to send to the tweets. so i guess that means i need something like that audiocontrol? since this is the case, i most probably need an inline crossover before the amp, correct? is there any other way?

Randy

When I say active crossover, I am talking about any crossover that is installed inline before the amp. Normally an active crossover has to have power conected.

A passive crossover is normally conected after the amp. A perfect example is the crossovers that come with most component sets.

Yes you could use the front and rear chanels on a 4 chanel amp, and use the amps crossovers. If the amps crossovers will alow you to run in the freq ranges required for the speakers you are conecting. In my stereo I have the mid crossed over at 80 herts, and the tweet at 2k. So if your amp will let you cross over the front and rear as HPFs, and alow you to adjust the crossovers to those freqs, then yes it should work for you.

Would the Audio Control 4xs work, it looks like it will, but I didn't read the whole manual. As I said above, if it will work in the freq ranges you need, then yes it will.

would the audiocontrol 4xs do the trick? i am unsure about this active xover stuff. just to make sure, i probably cant bi amp straight off of the amp without a crossover, correct? or could i put the tweets on the front channels, woofers on the rear channels, and use the amp crossovers like that? or would the freq's be too low on the front xover on the tweets?

Randy

MrSo0h0o wrote:so adding an active xover to the components wont do the trick?

If you install it before the amp, like the one of the audio controls then yes you could.

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