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  3. Smellin' Coil

    in General Audio - Can't find a category for your question? Ask here.

    Posted

    Well I was holding off on the aftermarket headunit. I was going for a sleeper look.

    Guess I'll start looking for a headunit. I threw a Audiobahn 15" in and there wasnt any smell though?

    That's why I was confused. Any ideas on how to set the gain on the Hi-Lo converter for the time being?

    Thanks Again guys

    Just to take a stab... I'd say make the Hi-Lo converter "gain" at like 75%.. same thing with the deck up front.. leave the EQ flat or off... then set the gains with a DMM.

    And I totally understand the sleeper look. You really want a sleeper look.. get a 3.5mm - RCA adapter.. use a Walkman cassette player as your head unit......lolol

  4. How much clipping is bad?

    in General Audio - Can't find a category for your question? Ask here.

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    pioneer decks dont clip til 50-52 on the lower notes, bass on headunit needs to be at ~+2 or more to get 4v... rarely do i see loudness used anymore

    u should be fine if its fast, but i know plenty of Waka Flocka songs that will not make ur sub or amp happy

    wrong key i swear.. i meant to type 60/62 not 50.. either way their gain is jacked to the moon anyway... and I go to high school .. I'm talking 16 year olds. Mommy and Daddy pay to have a system put in... for example I know a kid with an 04 cavilier.. stock electrical... has an 4 gauge wiring kit.. Hifonics BXI2610... 2 kicker L7s .... prefab box... gain jacked to the moon, he said so himself... he won't let me work on it because (from his mouth)

    "you don't know what i'm talking about, my dad said that the gain is a volume knob for the subs, so you're wrong"

    i'm just waiting for this thing to catch fire.

  6. How much clipping is bad?

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    wrong, maybe if ur subs are in ur trunk and u cant even hear ur the speaker itself movin

    ask someone with a wall behind their head if they can hear the subs getting sloppy from a clip... duh bro... its sounds inaccurate and muddy and is undesirable

    y would you go thru all the trouble to lower the gain on the song WHEN U CAN LOWER UR VOLUME KNOB, lol

    since u are lowering the gain u are affecting all notes, which is the same as a volume knob

    a clip is a clip is a clip...

    maybe i spend too much time listenin to rap/hiphop but i can pick it out usually without seein the wave... and i avoid it like a lez avoids dick.... lol

    A clip is a clip but I'm saying if you have correct gains.. unclipped at the amp... set from a test tone...you'll be alright on music.. I can hear the distortion easy.. and I hate it as well....

    I hear lots of kid's systems.. and they're like ... up to 50\62 on a pioneer deck... bass at +6... loudness on.... and i just get out. can't stand it.

  10. horrible engine noise

    in General Audio - Can't find a category for your question? Ask here.

    Posted

    remove system

    install outside of car

    if noise is gone, reinstall and dont take any shortcuts. if its not gone, your car is haunted. call the local exorcist or sell it off. by isntall out of car i literally mean out of the car. deck, speakers, wires, amps, on the damn driveway wired directly to the batt ( with a fuse ofcourse). this eliminates the equipment as the source of noise and narrows it down to the car or the install. if it works out of the car, and its installed properly (rcas far from all sources of power, GOOD grounds to chassis for everything, grounded rca's, no shorts) then you just have a haunted car.

    He's right. It's time consuming... but I had a a negative speaker wire touching the door once in my 96 monte carlo... passenger side... couldn't ever figure it out, so just logically went through everything until I got to the front mids... and sure enough. the wire that went into the terminal was stripped too much so it came out of the terminal and touched the door panel. I even heat-shrink all my female speaker terminals in clear plastic so this wouldn't happen.. but what do you know =/

    Good luck bro!

  13. How much clipping is bad?

    in General Audio - Can't find a category for your question? Ask here.

    Posted

    At the source... it's not nearly as bad as clipped at the amp. You'll be fine. If your gains are set correctly.. regularly mastered music is totally fine. Only once in a while you come across a really badly mastered CD... like The Lonely Island's Incredibad, Metallica's Death Magnetic (there's a lot of debate over this album), or Nickelback's Dark Horse.

    Just a few I know.

    Or... if you let a guy on here by the name of deeemc in your car with his "special" CD....that'll hurt your system.

  15. Smellin' Coil

    in General Audio - Can't find a category for your question? Ask here.

    Posted

    for one, stock HUs almost always have a horrible output curve... no flat response at all out of the speaker leads...plus your "bass" level is negative... the stock EQ in the HU doesn't ever have a smooth slope to change the frequency levels... add that to a line output converter... that degrades the quality of the already crappy signal even more... especially ones with adjustable levels.

    you understand that you may have set the gains correctly at one frequency but they could be totally jacked up at another? and that frequency could be clipping the shit out of the amp.

    i'd recommend a head unit with good 4v RCA preamp outputs, and a good set of RCAs. i've personally never had problems with Stinger and Knu RCAs... but that's just me.

    get a decent aftermarket HU, run good RCAs, set the gain again, call it a day.

    you'll notice a huge improvement over stock audio quality... and i assume you're running the bass down on your HU because at high volume it over powers your speakers in your car?

    A decent HU has a high pass filter on it... that does exactly the opposite of what a low pass filter does... it takes the bass below a certain freqency (usually 80Hz or 120Hz) out of the speaker's signal.

    Just my $.02

  18. up grade help

    in Subwoofers / Enclosures

    Posted

    subs up, port back... best every time... (well 99% of the time - there's always that one vehicle that's odd, but yours won't be that one)

    as far as space between the rear gate and the box.. there has to be some room so the port isn't smashed up against the door, but you don't need to have a foot wide gap or anything. too close and the sound waves can't get out of the box. probably 3-5 inches at the closest.

    i'm surprised nobody else really has hopped on this thread to give you a hand...

  23. Big 3 question

    in Electrical-battery- Alternators- Wiring

    Posted

    yea i went and ran my 0 gauge through my fire wall started around 1 didnt finish till bout 5. Had a few set backs on not being able to get through the fire wall lol. I ended up spending like 60 bucks at one of the local shops and all i got was a fuse holder, 150 amp fuse, 6ft. of 4 gauge, and 2 ring terminals. I used a bench vice to crimp my terminals to my 0gauge, then i did a pull test to make sure they wouldnt come off. I only upgraded my alt + to batt+. Also because i have a side post batt in my car and its odd how theres 3 stock wires to my positive batt terminal one was the alt positive but i didnt know wat the other 2 were for.

    thats how mine is. it's goes... 1 goes to the alt, 1 goes to the starter, and 1 goes to power distribution.

  24. What amp for my subs?

    in Amplifiers

    Posted

    SAZ1000 won't do him a lot of good if he has dual 2 ohm subs and has a two ohm final load.

    You need to get them out of the box and look at the subs to see what model they are. And if there's no model # you can test the impedence with a digital multimeter.

    exactly. post back if you have questions about using a digital multimeter... we will be happy to assist :D (well at least i will be)

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