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Thanks Bert! Between your response and just reading another response from haze in another thread, I'm feeling pretty good about this decision. Bill at BT was awesome to deal with. I may just trade in my HATS 6.5s for some Titan 7.1s after hearing him talk about them so highly. Or I might keep the HATS and deep 6 the focal 165s.
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Thanks Bert! Between your response and just reading another response from haze in another thread, I'm feeling pretty good about this decision. Bill at BT was awesome to deal with. I may just trade in my HATS 6.5s for some Titan 7.1s after hearing him talk about them so highly. Or I might keep the HATS and deep 6 the focal 165s.
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You may want to consider a pair of Arc Moto 602. I'm using them in the TP pods and they perform very well there. Gann said they do very well in the lowers also do to the adjustable tweeters.
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Yes, Bill said that I can run the HATS and Focals in Parallel as I have them now.. However, I get your point. The RMS handling of the Focals is a tad less than the Hats at 80 watts.
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Very good point, I didn't think about that.
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What you should look at is the sensitivity rating. So if one speaker is 93db (the focal) and the another is 89 db (i think the motos) and you are sending them the same signal split in half the speaker with the higher sensitivity will get louder much faster leaving the other speaker wanting more juice to match the volume. So you want two speakers that are roughly the same sensitivity if you are running them in parallel. I think what you got now would work.....but I'd still put them Focal's in the fairing!
Also have to take in consideration which speaker can play lower in freq while the other can't etc. So it's more than just RMS rating.Now if you were running them off their own channels then yes a Focal + Arc combo would be great. Focal = awesome clarity Arcs = tons of bass. Great combo!
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The Focals will that take that power with no issues at all.
What you should look at is the sensitivity rating. So if one speaker is 93db (the focal) and the another is 89 db (i think the motos) and you are sending them the same signal split in half the speaker with the higher sensitivity will get louder much faster leaving the other speaker wanting more juice to match the volume. So you want two speakers that are roughly the same sensitivity if you are running them in parallel. I think what you got now would work.....but I'd still put them Focal's in the fairing! Also have to take in consideration which speaker can play lower in freq while the other can't etc. So it's more than just RMS rating.
Now if you were running them off their own channels then yes a Focal + Arc combo would be great. Focal = awesome clarity Arcs = tons of bass. Great combo!
What you should look at is the sensitivity rating. So if one speaker is 93db (the focal) and the another is 89 db (i think the motos) and you are sending them the same signal split in half the speaker with the higher sensitivity will get louder much faster leaving the other speaker wanting more juice to match the volume. So you want two speakers that are roughly the same sensitivity if you are running them in parallel. I think what you got now would work.....but I'd still put them Focal's in the fairing!
Also have to take in consideration which speaker can play lower in freq while the other can't etc. So it's more than just RMS rating.Now if you were running them off their own channels then yes a Focal + Arc combo would be great. Focal = awesome clarity Arcs = tons of bass. Great combo!
BT4180.14 - 180W @ 4ohms
My configuration using the BT 4180 based on info that Bill from BT gave me..
120 Watts per front four speakers in parrallel.
180 Watts per Rear channel
Sensitivity Freq resp. Max Power RMS IMP
Focal 93dB 60Hz - 20kHz 160W 80W 4ohms
HATS 93.2dB 50Hz - 22kHz 230W 100W 4ohms
ARC 6.2 86dB 50Hz - 20kHz 240W 90W 4ohms
