SR 5250 & 6500 crossovers

Hawaii6501

I have a 120wrms 4 channel (Kenwood XR-4S). I would like to use it for cleaner power to the two sets of comps but can only in full pass mode. I am wondefring if the SR crossovers have a high pass filter to protect the mid range speakers? I am now using an MB Quart 4125 and am still breaking in the 5250's (vol. @ 30/ max vol. is 50). Got the 6500's used on EBay and sound awsome already. I am pretty much broke right now and not concidering "active" yet. Should I stay with the MB? I got'em high passed @ 60hz and not worried. I'll have 30 hrs on the speakers by the new year.

kawizx9r

Setup sounds a bit like mine.

I've got SR6500's with a Kenwood Excelon X4R amp. Looking at your amps specs/features it's pretty close to mine but unclear on something....does it have a parametric equalizer, DSP, or time alignment as well?

I've got my SR's active at the moment and love it! I'm still messing around with the low pass filter on the woofer but it's at 3khz/12db slope. From the headunit, I've got my woofers cut off at 60hz while the 12" Polk sub plays 70hz and below with ease.

Here's my setup

kawizx9r

Looking back at my post I was a bit vague lol.

Asked about your amp because it's what I used to go active in terms of blending the tweeters with the woofers (for my SR6500's). For everything else, I'm using my headunit (all in my sig).

arun1963

Hawaii6501 wrote: »

I have a 120wrms 4 channel (Kenwood XR-4S). I would like to use it for cleaner power to the two sets of comps but can only in full pass mode. I am wondefring if the SR crossovers have a high pass filter to protect the mid range speakers? I am now using an MB Quart 4125 and am still breaking in the 5250's (vol. @ 30/ max vol. is 50). Got the 6500's used on EBay and sound awsome already. I am pretty much broke right now and not concidering "active" yet. Should I stay with the MB? I got'em high passed @ 60hz and not worried. I'll have 30 hrs on the speakers by the new year.

1. If you got the sr-6500 used, chances are they're already broken in.

2. The mid on the 6500 doesn't need bandpass protection. You can actually run this mid full range and let it roll off at both ends. You'd probably get a 50hz-5,000hz usable range. The passive xover splits the meids and tweets at 3.1khz iirc.

3. If you want to stay passive, the passive xover lets you bi-amp. I.E. one amp channel per driver. You'll notice that the passive xover has 4 sets of connections. Woofer in/out and tweeter in/out. Bi amping gives you better control over each driver and lets each driver get more power.

4. The Kenwood amp will allow you to set an active network. I would ditch the second pair of comps and just run the sr-6500 active off the kenny amp. I'd look to split the mids and tweets between 4-5khz.

5. What hu are you running?

Arun

Hawaii6501

The HU is a JVC KD-S100. It has 6 channels (2 for subs). Maybe I'll bi-amp both sets of comps with the 5250's on the MB Q. BTW I got 2 15" MM's slamming off a Boston GT-2200.