Bass blockers in tower speakers????

(wakesetter101) · (wakesetter101) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 08-07-2006, 2:41 PM

Are you suppose to have bass blockers in your tower speakers? I am just curious to see who is wanting bass come through there tower speakers.

I have a set of kicker dual voice coil 6.5 tower speakers and were thinking about installing bass blockers any thoughts?

(mikeski) · (mikeski) **Join Date: Aug 2003** 08-07-2006, 4:51 PM

Bass blockers aka capacitors are not a bad idea on tower speakers. A better idea is to enable your amplifier's high pass crossover tuned to about 150hz. The speaker's are not going to produce much down there anyway so you might as well save that power (heat) and use it where it's more audible.

(malibu_monkey) · (malibu_monkey) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 08-07-2006, 5:11 PM

Just CRANK EM TILL THEY BLOW!!!

(audiopro74) · (audiopro74) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 08-07-2006, 5:44 PM

The only reason you should need them is if the amp does not have a crossover.

(clubmyke) · (clubmyke) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 08-07-2006, 5:51 PM

electronic crossover would be much better (more efficent and you can experiment)..most amps have this built in..

for 6.5's 150hz is a good place to crossover..

(wakesetter101) · (wakesetter101) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 08-07-2006, 8:39 PM

I do have my amp set that way. I guess i was just seeing what others have done. Thanks

(puckinshat) · (puckinshat) **Join Date: Sep 2003** 08-07-2006, 10:42 PM

Otherwise if you have a kenwood excelon deck, the crossover is built into that. If no dice on either, get some bass blockers.