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Imagine my surprise to come out this morning to wet snow on the lawn. It didn't stay, but I'm still glad parked in the garage last night. WTF? Its almost April!

Well yeah, that is what had confused me too. Its a strictly mono sub amp, so the high pass (took me a bit to figure this out) is apparently limiting how high the subs will go. The low pass how low. The filters on the HU are the opposite. Low pass limits how high and high pass limits how low the other speakers go? This is what I have noticed. Here is the amp btw: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-mxaLuNGc7Uv/p...rence-611a.html and thanks for the link!

Seriously though, I need help. What do people usually have these things set to? I am not used to such a high freq response as the cvr12 have, so I don't know how high to let them go.

Dang. I guess I sub-consciously never have bare wire coming out of my amp. Always wire speakers then wire to amp first (after double checking). I guess that is one thing I'm doing right

I need help making sure I got this right because I had it backwards & confused for 2 days and it sounded like ass and quiet too. Doh! Ok, so understand my last Clarion deck lasted me years and years and had nothing but RCA out from the FRONT to my sub and amp. Fun. Also we didn't have any of these fancy filters and Q-Bass technology and whatnot. HP and LP were fancy boxes people got because they didn't know how to set their controls. So now I got on the sub's amp: Input Signal Sensitivity (fine for now, I guess... about 3/4) HP - Set exactly halfway to 220 hz, so I think about 100 Low Pass - Set lowest it goes, 20 hz. I'm in a sealed box so I figure I'm fine Bass Boost - won't touch it, don't need it. I think its rubbish anyway. Plus I can't push my speakers too far because they are breaking in for next 2 weeks. Head Unit: High Pass: Set to 100 hz for the apparent safety of my rear 6X9 and 4X6 ?? Subwoofer Settings 2: Default is 80 hz, now its at 100. Should it meet the other speakers halfway at that frequency? Its so damn loud right now I'm scared to go past 49% volume and I have the Sub Src settings in the negative 4 range on the HU. Equalizer is flat (after I just ran tests and turned off processing). No Loudness. No boost. Flat.

But how can i feel all the subtle nuances of the install? Also, I can't imagine working with a decent wire gauge wearing latex, lol. weird.

Well I blew out the right channel of my Rockford by running it at 1 ohm (twice now) and they fixed it under warranty. And what happened to protect mode? LOL

hOLY crap the Harbor Freight one is down to $2.99 I am so going there after work. Its worth a bit of driving to save me from paying $16 for one. Hell, this is even cheaper than the batteries to run it: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/disp...temnumber=90899

Don't you hate when you work on the interior of your car and your hands get all dusty and smelly afterwards? Its like this vomit mixed with dead skin smell. Yuck!

We're gonna need a bigger boat!

$1500-2000? What happened to the "uh-oh, better get Maaco" $300 job?

UPDATE: so pulled the HU, couldn't find anything amiss. Tried to check fuses but didn't know what fuse would be responsible. Found I had blown my horn fuse though, and can replace that, thank goodness. EDIT: Well I am an idiot. I tore out my HU (at least I know how to do that now) and did fix my horn, but I broke one of the brackets on my HU somehow and scratched up the front plastic above the ignition (even though was careful and used electrical tape coated screwdriver), but afterall that it was only a stupid wire touching in the back speaker somewhere that got dislodged. Weird that I figured it out by just thinking about it on my own. I guess I'm too emotional when I get angry to think straight. I'm very happy i got use of my horn back! Lookout asshole drivers!

Who's the king of the demo?!! http://www.movietome.com/movie/365853/the-...way/index.html# well crap, that hijack failed.

oh, one question though. why do i have to have the ignition turned on? OH DUH, to move the shifter. lol, good call!

Thanks man. That does bolster me. Maybe I'll do it on my lunch! It seriously does look like a baby can do it though. The panel has this "Little Tikes" appearance and I started to feel like I'm in mini-spl

Well I finally looked at it a few min ago after getting instructions from ray and it did look simple. I almost laughed, because it looked like something a baby could do. I did not realize it was in the top 2 easiest cars. I just suck at 'popping things off' including my laptop or my door panels or whatever. I hate shit with clips because i always either break them or can never get them back on so they always look messed up after. I'm sure you know what I mean. But thanks for the tip, you are making me feel more calm than I was yesterday.

lol, i'm all paranoid i'm going to deploy the friggin airbag into my face. i guess i'll just disconnect the batter then? LOL.

lol, so you can tell me if its simliar to a Lumina of the same year? I just know my friend took my factory radio and put it in his years ago, and I can recal him pulling up the dash and having a hard time putting it back right.

ray, you are the best. i know these are all like puzzles, but i would never have known to start there.

Stupid carstereoremoval.com was all that came up and they charge you for a manual or whatever instructions they have. Is that worth $3?

install is one thing.. un-install something you didn't do in the first place, lol. no more clarion for me. had one that lasted many may years but just decided it didn't like cd-r's one day. you want it? pay the shipping and its yours lol no, now i got a basic pioneer hu

98 malibu

well the only amp i have is for the subs and those are still gettin full power.

But let me ask you this, wouldn't a fuse or a ground or a power wire being loose have to power down the HU? Why would it only chose to stop giving power to the car speakers and still perform every other single function, including RCA out to the subs?

Uh, that is where I fall on my face. I had the HU installed by Circuit City (right before they went under) and really am terribly unsure on how to pull it out. LOL, I just can't lie here. I don't know what I'm doing. I thought it had something to do with the harness coming loose in there, but wonder why the HU is still powered up then?