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off topic question, where do you have your hi amp at? Behind the back seat?

I have it in a storage compartment under the front seats center console

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Thanks ....Ill mess with the Amp settings. Just my luck the HPF will take care of it....lol

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So, a few questions .....I recently put some 6 1/2's in the doors of my truck. And my buddy asked if I noticed any distortion, then he told me that a local shop put bass blockers in his to prevent distortion at max volumes..

1st WTF is a bass blocker, is that a weak ass band aid for the wrong amp?

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2nd I do have a little Distortion with My new Deck installed (Its an Alpine IXA-W404 and Alpine Type R 6 1/2's hooked up to a Rockford Fosgate T400-4) I Was wondering if there was an easy way to test for clipping without access to an Oscilloscope?

Any help is appreciated.

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I think I missed something, but you are saying that power wire that was too close to your speaker wires was making the speakers not play?

As best as i can figure .....they were playing but the interference noise over rode the output from the head unit......like I said at the top of the post ....I don't know a lot about this stuff.....or maybe its an unrelated issue and I bupmed something?

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Thanks .....il try the AA battery idea.......hope I didnt ruin something reversing current into the Head unit...

Soo....thanks for all the input, I thought I would report in......turns out that the 0/1 Power wire for the cap was about three inches away from the wiring under the dash for the front speakers under .....I made a new path through the firewall......problem solved.

Duh....thanks Again

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You should test if the speakers even work... get a AA battery or something and put positive speaker wire on battery positive then touch negative speaker wire to negative battery side. You'll hear a crackling sound as you move the negative wire around and if that works then you are having some type of interference. Are the speakers on an amp? if they are, switch them to the other set of terminals and see if they work on those (could be dead channel)

Thanks .....il try the AA battery idea.......hope I didnt ruin something reversing current into the Head unit...

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take the crapacitor out. let me ask you this, when you ran your signal/rca cables and your power cables, did you run them on opposite sides of the car or on the same side? running them together will cause the rca's to pick up EMI (electromagnetic interference, aka noise) and transfer it to your speakers in the form of a whine. if/when they are apart from eachother and the whine is still there, get a ground loop isolator.

The Power and RCA are as far apart as I can get them (under the door sill plates on either side) but as to my question about the front speakers not working(except for the interference signal) could a crossed wire over ride signal from the Head Unit?

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So. I am fairly new to car audio, I have messed up installing a capacitor.

I don't know what information will help so Ill go down the list. 2007 Silverado, Alpine CDA 9887, Rockford Fosgate T10001bd amp, 2 12" Kicker CompVR's and 6 type R 6 1/2's (Doors and Pillars) After I installed a new cap last night the front doors and Tweeters in the pillars stopped working. But the Cap, Amp, Subs, Head Unit and Rear Speakers Work Fine As far as I can tell .....if I isolate the front speakers there is a slight whine, I think that there is a ground issue......Would a bad ground on the Cap cause this.....and if so. how do I test a possible ground location. i.e. measure for ohms etc.....

Thanks