Stephen13

Vinyl era here. Growing up in the 60's my Dad had a side job working on pinball machines and jukeboxes. I had my own pinball machine in my room and an absolutely HUGE collection of 45's. I'd give anything to have all the 45's I accumulated from when he would change out the old discs for new releases.

I use the -10dB track. I'm not into the bass heavy "music" that many here seem to like. I primarily listen to classic rock, blues and jazz. The problem I've run into is that many older recordings (like from the 70's) aren't recorded at a very high level. Using the -10dB track helps to bring up those songs to acceptable levels when I want to crank them up a little. On more recent recordings the same max volume settings for older recordings tends to be TOO loud and I can hear it just begin to stress the speakers and subs. On these tracks I tend to back off the volume a bit. One of my fave recording is Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs". On my Advent OGM1 my max volume setting is 53 of 60. With my current gain settings a volume of 53 is plenty loud for my liking. If I leave the volume setting the same and play a newer track (Mayor Hawthorne's "The Walk" for instance) at that same max volume setting I can hear that the speakers are getting close to their limits. I can always turn the newer, louder recordings down a little since turning the older recordings up even higher isn't an option.

I hooked up the CC-1 to my home stereo amp (ADCOM GFA-555 mk.II) and got the "Signal" LED to turn on finally. It seemed odd that I had to turn up a 200W/channel amp to 1:00 to get the LED to light up. I tried the CC-1 on the outputs of my ADCOM pre-amp and the outputs of my CD player and could not get the LED to light with either component. I'm guessing the CC-1 doesn't work with line level signals like the manual says and only works on speaker level signals? Next, I hooked the CC-1 up to a Kicker 12PX100.2 power amp that I use for my rear speakers. No matter what I did the "Signal" LED would not light. By this time I was getting pissed. For the fun of it I hooked up to my Polk Audio PSD 2000.2 amp that powers my front speakers and BINGO! the "Signal" LED on the CC-1 lit up. It took me a while to dial in the X-over frequency. Just touching the frequency trimmer on the X-over was enough to make the DOWN arrow jump to the UP arrow with the "Calibrated" LED only lighting for an instant in between. This went back and forth for a while before I got the "Calibrated" LED to come ON and stay ON. I proceeded to dial in my subwoofer amp next without a hitch. I went back to the Kicker amp but still could not get it to light up the "Signal" LED. Since this is my rear amplifier I just dialed it in as best I could and left it at that. When I went to listen to my system I noticed a scratchy kind of distortion coming from the right rear speaker. This also happens to be the channel I was trying to dial in with the CC-1. The 12PX100.2 has been a PITA since I bought it. When the first one arrived I did like I always do and tested it on my work bench to confirm that it worked before installing it. When I tested the amp the right channel was DOA so I sent it back and got another. It tested fine so I installed it and for about a month and a half it worked like a charm before the right channel in it went belly-up. So now I'm on my third 12PX100.2 and up until I connected the CC-1 the amp worked fine. Now after trying to dial in the X-over the right channel in this 3rd amp is acting up. So now I need to send it back and look into an entirely different amp. In my experience Kicker products have never given me any grief before. Hopefully I won't have any problem with the Kicker "Front Row" processor/crossover I'm using.

Got a lot going on this weekend but I'll test the speaker level outputs of my home stereo system as soon as I get the chance. Thanks for chiming in Tony!

Yep, tried both channels with the volume at zero all the way up to 60. I even hooked it up to my home stereo's preamp output and the CC-1 still is not detecting a signal.

I hooked up the CC-1 to the output of two different amps and I cannot get the Signal LED to light up with either. I've used the harness that came with the unit as well as used cables I have on hand so now I'm pretty much at a loss as to what the problem might be. I've got a bakground in electronics and have used multi-meters and O-scopes and the like before so I'm confident I'm using the device correctly. Any suggestions?

My CC-1 is gonna make me lose my mind. Using the DD-1 couldn't have been any easier but the CC-1 is kicking my butt. I've got it hooked up to the pre-amp level outputs of my Kicker "Front Row" which is a signal processor/crossover. No matter what I do I cannot get the "Signal" LED on the CC-1 to light up. I've only tried it on the pre-amp levels of the crossover because it's easier to get to than my amplifiers. I've read the manual over a few times and I cannot for the life of me figure out what the problem might be. Once it gets a little warmer I plan to pull the rear seat in my truck to access the amps and hook up the CC-1 to a speaker level output to see if that makes a difference. Anyone have any recommendations until then? Thanks!