Tony F wrote



Eddie,

Did you use some capacitors inline with your tweeters after you switched
from using the passive xovers to all active? From what I've learned, the
capacitors act to limit too much power from getting to the tweeters if
they're being run straight off the amplifier. There's more to it than that,
but that's the gist. I had to replace a pair of my Dynaudio tweeters once
even with the capacitors because my fingers got happy with my equalizer one
day when boosting the high frequencies.


I was anticipating the load interaction between the tweeters and the main
amp early on. Any aspiring car audio fancier worthy of their salt would see
the smoke miles away. I'm no techie but I configured my amp to put out
100w X4 @ 4 ohm so, I adjusted the output level at min. before connection.

Let me just add that the occational crackles I hear on that one tweeter
has been there for some time now (1 year +) but somehow, I thought all
along it was due to my CDRs. I was just inattentive to isolate the cause.

In a way, I was glad to know why I sometimes repel the sound produced
in my car. BTW, yesterday and today, I hear a huge THUD! throughout the
speakers each time I power off the HU. What does this foretell ? I have
disconnected all the power and I'll find out more later on... I hope.



I've also been seriously considering getting the 9255 as well...mostly
because I want that 4th output for my sub and I quickly got tired of having
to press two separate buttons to swing the faceplate down and eject the CD.
I kind of miss just being able to hit the eject button and having a CD pop
out of a FIXED faceplate.

Eclipse have solid reputation and I came to realize this from asking
the dealers and buyers while shopping for HUs weeks ago. I'm sure
you'll get a better part of your expenses should you decide to sell and
switch.