Base Bronco kicker key and new speaker set up?

[Steed76]

Interesting and good conversation here regarding the 2 way vs. woofer for the kick panels. I think having the subwoofer delete in the back like i have and the 3 1/2s in the front it might be advantageous to have just woofers in the kicks. Hopefully others will chime in. OP thanks for starting this thread.

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[balckstang93]

Im leaning towards a mid bass woofer after doing more research today.

 

[greatlakes]

I used upgraded 4" 2-way speakers in the front, and mid-bass in the kick panels running off the Kicker Key200.4 in bi-amp mode. I did not touch the factory rears.

I also added a 10" sub with a 2nd amp for bass and am pretty happy with the outcome.

 

[DJ1]

Im leaning towards a mid bass woofer after doing more research today.

That will give you the best potential outcome, mid-bass drivers low and highs in the dash. It depends on if your goal is to just sound better than stock or to get the most out of your setup.

If you go with what you describe, you will need to manage the frequencies with crossovers. Maybe the speakers you picked have built-in band-pass and high-pass filters, then you are good.
I have a somewhat similar setup with a 2-way component system using active and passive crossovers:

https://www.bronco6g.com/forum/thre...-dsp-speakers-and-sub-lots-of-pictures.43856/

The Kicker Key 200.4 is underpowered, IMO, for what you are doing and won't be able to do anything for optimizing multiple speakers on the same channel. Like @greatlakes did, using the Key to drive the 4 front speakers each on its own channel is probably the best if you are going to stick with the Key.

And add a subwoofer. The mid-bass drivers are great if you put enough clean power to them, but they don't do what a subwoofer does.

 

[balckstang93]

I used upgraded 4" 2-way speakers in the front, and mid-bass in the kick panels running off the Kicker Key200.4 in bi-amp mode. I did not touch the factory rears.

I also added a 10" sub with a 2nd amp for bass and am pretty happy with the outcome.

i bought the plugnplay harness. can i use it in bi-amp mode like you did?

 

[Hemisfear]

Funny those are the exact ones I plan on buying. My dash and rear are already Hertz

Which speaker models did you install, I wanted to go CENTO, but the tweeters looked to sit too proud of the woofer for the factory grills to fit?

 

[greatlakes]

i bought the plugnplay harness. can i use it in bi-amp mode like you did?

I don't believe they plug-n-play harness comes wired for bi-amp mode. I ran my own wires.

 

[balckstang93]

I just bought the Hertz 165 Cento 165L's to put in the kick panels. Sounded like the right decision after all the reading on here.

 

[Brian_B]

I don't believe they plug-n-play harness comes wired for bi-amp mode. I ran my own wires.

I believe most Plug-n-play harnesses are going to use the stock speaker wiring - which will have the Rear channel go to the rear pods, and the Front channel going to the Kick/Dash in parallel.

 

[Copperhorse73]

Which speaker models did you install, I wanted to go CENTO, but the tweeters looked to sit too proud of the woofer for the factory grills to fit?

The 4” speakers are the Dieci

 

[Hemisfear]

The 4” speakers are the Dieci

How do you like them and what kind of power are you running through them?

 

[Copperhorse73]

How do you like them and what kind of power are you running through them?

I like them a lot, good for a budget build for sure. The whole system is powered by a 5 channel Kicker amp that’s like 65 w/channel for The 4 main channels and 300W sub

 

[Hemisfear]

I like them a lot, good for a budget build for sure. The whole system is powered by a 5 channel Kicker amp that’s like 65 w/channel for The 4 main channels and 300W sub

Very cool, I have almost the same planned, I have an Alpine 5 channel amp with the same spec, I didn’t think the deci’s could handle the power, obviously I was wrong!
Thanks for the info, appriciated!

 

[Copperhorse73]

Very cool, I have almost the same planned, I have an Alpine 5 channel amp with the same spec, I didn’t think the deci’s could handle the power, obviously I was wrong!
Thanks for the info, appriciated!

The can definitely handle it, it’ll make my ears bleed with no noticeable distortion. FYI for the sub, I put in an 8” Kicker in where the factory sub location is using the Gearshade enclosure.

 

[Copperhorse73]

Very cool, I have almost the same planned, I have an Alpine 5 channel amp with the same spec, I didn’t think the deci’s could handle the power, obviously I was wrong!
Thanks for the info, appriciated!

By the way be sure and get some 600 hz bass blockers for the front dash speakers. Rear is already blocked in the head unit

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