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The Rev 10's are great, and you can't go wrong with them, but I appreciate the clarity in the JL M880's a little more. Besides, the Rev 10's are bigger and therefore, I would hit my head more. Lol.
Yes, I worried about that. The towers are pretty low on these boats, so not much headroom. Maybe if they were pushed out more closer to the bend in the tower it wouldn't be so bad?Looks great. Lot's of time I am sure. I went with the Polk for the cabin, sub, swimdeck and bow, but JL M880's for the tower. I also have a WS420 and another volume control for my 4th zone. Zone 1 is the cabin, zone 2 is the tower, zone 3 is the sub and zone 4 is the bow and swimdeck. I plan to add a shut off for the swimdeck. The M880's are amazing. They are as crisp turned up as they are turned down. the only drawback I have had, is all 6 of us have hit our head on them.
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I will get you some pics tomorrow.
I like the 4th zone thing....something I will look at next season. I hung those 880 speakers in several different places, front rail, rear rail of the tower....there was a time I even thought they were too big and started to second guess my purchase. But then I just said "I'm doing this" and drilled the holes and put them in, they were the last thing I installed. But you turn the power on and man do they rock...sound is clean, the clarity is amazing...no more regrets and the size really looks perfect on the boat of this size. So glad I went big. As of hitting them I haven't had the pleasure but then again I've only had the boat out once since the install...but I'm sure I will bang my head into them sooner then later.Looks great. Lot's of time I am sure. I went with the Polk for the cabin, sub, swimdeck and bow, but JL M880's for the tower. I also have a WS420 and another volume control for my 4th zone. Zone 1 is the cabin, zone 2 is the tower, zone 3 is the sub and zone 4 is the bow and swimdeck. I plan to add a shut off for the swimdeck. The M880's are amazing. They are as crisp turned up as they are turned down. the only drawback I have had, is all 6 of us have hit our head on them.
I totally agree with you on the sound and how they look on the boat. Those 2 things make banging my head worth it. lol.
I tuned mine in the traditional way. No matter what amp I use, I always adjust the HU to about 80% and turn the gain on each amp up until it starts to distort, then back the gain off a little to where it is still clear. With the WS420 EQ, it makes it a little more tricky. Normally, when you through in an EQ, you should configure the HU to be flat and do all the Equalizing from the EQ. However, since my 4th zone does not go through the WS420, I did, in fact, tune the sound from the HU so that zone 4 sounds good and then fine tuned the other zones from the EQ.
I didn't do anything fancy with the power hookup to the battery. I know some go though the switches which is the better way but trying to squeeze a 2 AWG wire onto those posts that's are already has 2 large gauge wires didn't interest me. I just hooked direct to the battery lugs (house battery) to a fuse and onto the distribution block on the amp board where the lines get split for each amp. I also have a sub panel on my amp board that I power the WS420 with and that goes through a breaker only because I can easily trip the breaker to de-energize the line.
I didn't get too in depth with it...remember its still just a boat and not some closed room with acoustic tiles all around. I set my head unit to about 80% with everything flat (treble, bass...) I have a scope meter so it makes this process easy with looking at a sine wave and watching for any clipping. You just work your way though each section of the system. Inject a high freq and go though all your in boat speakers adjusting the gain to distortion then back off a bit. Inject a low freq for your sub and I used both freq for my towers speakers I just found a nice place throughout the range where it had its best clarity and sound. So though the head unit, through the amps and into the WS420 by then everything was pretty good and I was liking what I was hearing. I played with the gains on the EQ and was done. Yes you can get really in depth with tuning but i was just setting it up so i don't overdrive anything and damage my investment.
Yes, the amps only turn on when I turn with the head unit.
Will do. Yep, wire runs from switch, thru breaker like below, then on to distribution block on my amp board. Maybe my distribution block has a fuse...I am worried now I do not have a fuse like @Doug does in his set up. Ok edited...I am not an electrical person, but I guess a circuit breaker is essentially a fuse!
