Help me fine-tune my settings :)

[eTiMaGo]

OK so I have a Pioneer head unit that allows a few fancy settings concerning the subwoofer. I can set the sub's ceiling frequency, as well as a high pass filter for the other speakers.

I don't have a very fancy speaker setup but I have a 10" Coustic subwoofer running on it own amp, as well as 4x Boston Acoustics S60's for the main speakers, on their own amp too.

As I have it now, I have the subwoofer frequency AND high pass filter set at 80Hz, my assumption is that I should not burden the normal speakers with such low frequency, so let the sun handle that.

Now, I can also set the frequencies to 50Hz or 125Hz, I guess my question really is, is 50Hz too low for a regular 6.5" speaker to handle? Or, would it be OK for the ranges to overlap (i.e. subwoofer set at 80Hz, but high pass at 50Hz so both the sub and speakers respond to 50-80Hz)?

[talnlnky]

If you are running...
1) deck power to your speakers
or
2) coaxial speakers

then don't drop the crossover frequency any lower than 80hz.
80hz is a very common crossover point.

If you have 6.5" component speakers running off an external amp, then you may want to play around with dropping the crossover setting... they might be able to handle 50hz... Too bad there aren't 60 & 70hz settings too. 50-80hz is a big jump. Causes the speaker to move A LOT more, and requires A LOT more power from the amplifier.

[bzinn 1]

Yeah if they are on the amp you can go lower than 80 but if your amp is only allowing big jumps you might not want to run them at 50.I run my 6.5s at 60-63 and any lower and they pop,from bottoming out I am thinking.If your sub has enough power the comps will run fine at 80 and sound great.

[severous01]

i run 80 on my 6.5 and 125 for my sub...