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Old 04-06-2009, 06:47 PM
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I've been running the Infinity Kappa 10.7t tweeters setup I mentioned above for 3 years at high volumes with no problems.
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Originally Posted by selmeralto
I've been running the Infinity Kappa 10.7t tweeters setup I mentioned above for 3 years at high volumes with no problems.
Ok thats good to know that the impedence change hasnt affected your boss tweeters. I am assuming your Kappa's have the same range as the boss - the ones I am installing are good to 3000hz so I need to add a cap to block out the extra freq - I don't know if I should calculate on a 4ohm load or a 2ohm load...
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I confess - I just tried the various setups I mentioned in my post and listened for the best sound. As I say, I've had no damage to anything and I listen to CDs a lot, usually at high volume. The only damage is to my eardrums!
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Originally Posted by Mobile
But wouldn't the impedance change mean you need to adjust all the calculations for the capacitors? Effectively doubling them to maintain the proper crossover point? (i.e. 22udf must be changed to 44ufd to maintain 1800hz crossover on whats now a 2ohm load).

I am working on adding tweeters and wrestling with determining the proper capacitor I need to protect the new tweeters. Also just the act of adding a 2nd tweeter in parallel would lower the impedance from 4ohm to 2ohm, thereby changing the crossover point on the stock boss tweeter. So don't we need to change the stock capacitor to avoid tweeter damage?
You are changing the load that the amp sees. The tweeter itself it still 4 ohm..... obviously. Each still has it's own respective cap as well.

If I had some plain regular ol' resistors in front of me. And I wire a couple of them in parallel, does the color bands on them magically change? Each resistor individually hasn't changed in value.
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Originally Posted by firebirdude
You are changing the load that the amp sees. The tweeter itself it still 4 ohm..... obviously. Each still has it's own respective cap as well.

If I had some plain regular ol' resistors in front of me. And I wire a couple of them in parallel, does the color bands on them magically change? Each resistor individually hasn't changed in value.
OK so the overall load of the circuit isnt important for the crossover - just the individual speaker. But I don't think it's obvious - I have asked this question 3 different ways over multiple forums and have yet to get a straight answer.

This has nothing to do with the resistors changing - that was never my reasoning; rather if the load on the circuit changes, does it alter how the resistor affects the speaker. Anyway, I appreciate the clarification, cheek or not...

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Apologies for coming off like a dick. It was a valid question.
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