13 SG 4 speaker setup
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13 SG 4 speaker setup
I have a 4 speaker setup, I have 6.5 JBL's 80wRMS up front and 300W 100RMS pioneers in the bags. The HU is a Pioneer AVH 3500NEX. I was thinking about going with the CV B54 for all 4 or should I use 2 amps. Any help would really be appreciated.
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Specs say that amp puts out 80 watts per channel so you might be underpowered if you want to hear your music at highway speeds but it's in the ballpark of what your speakers require. Unless your speakers can safely handle more power than what they are rated at that amp may be a decent match. I pushed a set of Pioneer 6x9s in an aftermarket batwing fairing in a V Star with a 200 watt amp for a couple of years and they never missed a beat. You might be happy with the results, the Pioneers I had packed a decent punch for the price I paid.
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Specs say that amp puts out 80 watts per channel so you might be underpowered if you want to hear your music at highway speeds but it's in the ballpark of what your speakers require. Unless your speakers can safely handle more power than what they are rated at that amp may be a decent match. I pushed a set of Pioneer 6x9s in an aftermarket batwing fairing in a V Star with a 200 watt amp for a couple of years and they never missed a beat. You might be happy with the results, the Pioneers I had packed a decent punch for the price I paid.
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I'm running two Sound Digital amps, a 400.2 and a 400.4. If I did it over I would have purchased two of the 400.4 amps as they are the same price. I ran a Soundstream PN4.1000D in an Ultra Classic and it had decent power running my Kappa 6x9s and Mmats. It's pretty big amp though. Some have gotten it to fit in the fairing but I put mine in my tourpack. They have a smaller amp that's 100 watts/channel that a decent price on Amazon with a line out converter the PN4.520D. They might kill your FM reception though. The Soundstreams do well but overall are budget amps but it served me well. A lot of people here are fans of the Stinger amps. The SPX700X4 will give you headroom for your set up. They are going for $314 right now on Amazon.
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When 6x9s are in play I'd steer clear of cheaper amps like the Soundstream. I ran the PN4.1000D in my fairing pushing six 6.5s and it did great. When I changed things around and got it to push one set of 6.5s and a set of 6x9s in the lids it never did want to give great volume without overtaxing the charging system. Those SS amps are good budget units, but they have VERY dirty power characteristics. I swapped it out for an SD 400.4 four ohm and get all the volume I want now without dinging the charging system. I wound up bridging the 400.4 for the 6x9s and got a separate waterproof amp and mounted it under my tour pak for the 6.5s in the pods. Those two amps wound up drawing less overall current than that one SS amp did.
OP if you can find a good deal on a used Arc 600.4 that would give you 150 watts x 4 and wouldn't fry your FM reception if that is important to you. I guess it depends on how serious you are about pushing those 6x9s. If you don't have a DSP about 150 watts each would be fine I would think. It's when you start tuning with a DSP and removing midrange frequencies to warm up the sound that you can really burn some watts.
Another option could be to use a small amp for the fairing speakers and a larger amp for the 6x9s. That's pretty much what I did after tinkering with things for a couple of years. I guess it depends on how much room you have to work with. Since you have an aftermarket head unit if you wanted to go cheap but bold maybe a Cerwin Vega B52 for the fairing speakers and a bridged B54 for the lids. That would give you enough power to where you could tune the signal a good bit for warmth without giving up a lot of volume. I don't know if those CV amps distort FM reception or not though.
Just some random thoughts.
OP if you can find a good deal on a used Arc 600.4 that would give you 150 watts x 4 and wouldn't fry your FM reception if that is important to you. I guess it depends on how serious you are about pushing those 6x9s. If you don't have a DSP about 150 watts each would be fine I would think. It's when you start tuning with a DSP and removing midrange frequencies to warm up the sound that you can really burn some watts.
Another option could be to use a small amp for the fairing speakers and a larger amp for the 6x9s. That's pretty much what I did after tinkering with things for a couple of years. I guess it depends on how much room you have to work with. Since you have an aftermarket head unit if you wanted to go cheap but bold maybe a Cerwin Vega B52 for the fairing speakers and a bridged B54 for the lids. That would give you enough power to where you could tune the signal a good bit for warmth without giving up a lot of volume. I don't know if those CV amps distort FM reception or not though.
Just some random thoughts.
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