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Originally Posted by Chimera
now I have a clearer understanding, however wiring the JLs such yields 25 w to each and the Alpines will have 40w to themselves. It's my thought that the JLs will not make an audible difference in this configuration, however I could be mistaken.
As a side note, you could attempt something like I have done and get a 3way cross over and run them all off it in the front channel. I have a pair of audiopipe crx-303, the woofers and tweeters from the R could be wired with the JL as the mid on the crossover, however I think that will lead to the JL being 180* out of phase.. not the worst problem in the world, but it will quiet the JLs output some.
edit: the phase shift could be accounted for by adding a cap to the JL somewhere below the crossover cutoff, so it has the same phase as the rest.
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That was actually one of my backup options, sort of. I was thinking, after reading all of the posts on here about how the rears didn't do much, weren't really necessary and you'll never have people back their anyways, that you could go without them pretty easily. So I thought maybe do a 3 way crossover, and just run them all in the front, doors and dash. In that case I wouldn't bother with those JL's, I would find something else suitable for a 3 way component setup. The only real reason I had for not doing that was that I've been in enough trucks that had nothing but the door speakers, and while they were decent in SQ and had a good range when paired with a sub, I couldn't get over how I could tell exactly where the sound was coming from. Instead of being surrounded by it, I felt like I was sitting next to the source, which I was. But maybe by keeping the rears it would lessen that sensation.