I currently have a pair of Wayne J's "U-Pee" design, which is an unfortunately named MT combo of a Peerless 6.5" mid and an Usher 9950 (http://wyrdone.org/projects/homethea...ee-Zombie.html. I'm running them with a Shiva 12" sub and a PE 250W plate amp, with a Panny XR25 handling the mains and processing duties. I've had the sub and mains for about 5 years and I want something different and better.
I use the setup for music, movies, casual listening, etc, and the music I listen to is mostly hip hop, so having the lowest distortion and perfect midrange is pretty pointless. The XR25 limits me to a highpass of 100 or 150 Hz for the mains, so I'm thinking that going with bass bins would decrease localization issues from crossing high and allow me to have more midbass. Currently, I either run the MTs fullrange and bottom the mids like crazy on movies or when I play music louder, or I cross them at 100 and the sub makes it's presence known over to the side with some midbass frequencies
I was considering building a pair of the RS150/H1212 MTMs as a sealed tower with a large lower section for a side-firing RSS265. I could ditch the plate amp and get a Behringer A500 to give each of them a few hundred watts, as I believe the XR25 lowpasses the sub wherever you set the highpass for the mains. Is this correct? The documentation is terrible for it. Would a sealed pair of RS150 MTMs crossed at 100 or even 150 Hz be able to get pretty loud without bottoming? I don't usually listen at obscene SPL levels, but the Peerless/Usher MTs aren't too pleased when I decide to crank it.
Thanks for any input, I realize how annoying these "make a decision for me" threads are. I just want to be sure I'm headed in the right direction.
I use the setup for music, movies, casual listening, etc, and the music I listen to is mostly hip hop, so having the lowest distortion and perfect midrange is pretty pointless. The XR25 limits me to a highpass of 100 or 150 Hz for the mains, so I'm thinking that going with bass bins would decrease localization issues from crossing high and allow me to have more midbass. Currently, I either run the MTs fullrange and bottom the mids like crazy on movies or when I play music louder, or I cross them at 100 and the sub makes it's presence known over to the side with some midbass frequencies
I was considering building a pair of the RS150/H1212 MTMs as a sealed tower with a large lower section for a side-firing RSS265. I could ditch the plate amp and get a Behringer A500 to give each of them a few hundred watts, as I believe the XR25 lowpasses the sub wherever you set the highpass for the mains. Is this correct? The documentation is terrible for it. Would a sealed pair of RS150 MTMs crossed at 100 or even 150 Hz be able to get pretty loud without bottoming? I don't usually listen at obscene SPL levels, but the Peerless/Usher MTs aren't too pleased when I decide to crank it.
Thanks for any input, I realize how annoying these "make a decision for me" threads are. I just want to be sure I'm headed in the right direction.
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