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yeah my radio is exactly like that haha. but okay ill try that. my amp isnt getting hot or anything being that high but i dont really like knowing its up that high. gotta love phenoix gold =]

the lowest i can go on the head unit is 80HZ i belive. maybe its 50. but whatever it is i got that all the way down. do you thing i should mess with the LP on the amp?

alright, ive herd from many sorces BASS BOOST IS BAD!. now yesterday when i was useing the dmm to dial in everything on my amp i noticed without a little bass boost i cant get the voltage i want going to the sub with out having the gain almost all the way up. so i have my gain a little less then 3/4 full and i have my bass boost up like a sixteenth. (very small) is this alright? the sub dosent sound like its clipping or anything. and also, when i dialed everything in everything on my headunit was flat. and after the amp was adjusted i changed some things on the head unit settings. like lowered the bass going to the speakers, well the bass at my sub dropped a little so i turned up the subwoofer level on my headunit. was this alright also?

why yes it is 200ACV. when i switched it to 500ACV it said "HO" witch i asume is High Output, so i figured it wasnt that.

mkay. well i bought the dmm and used it. im prettttty sure i have everything dialed in. haha turned out i was able to turn it up more. along with a little bass boost. less then an 8th of bass bost. and my sencitivity is more then half. i feel it is a little high. but if anything im a little low. i put it to 43volts. i could go to 44. it sounds good and now i dont have to get peranoid after playing it for a while and reach back and touch the cone and amp to make sure they are still cool haha. but thank you everybody for all your help. its nice to have a place to go were people actually help and have good input, rather than yes or no. i really appreciate all your help so far. also on my dmm i had two volts setting 200 and 500. i used to 200. should i of not of? oh yeah, and i used 50HZ this time. =]

yeah i will go with the cheap one too. but thanks for all the info!

i edited that post a couple times. haha i kept forgetting questions i had and shit. i got them on there. were you refuring to the one you got as a cheap little one, or its alright. and would being .01 off make or break my sub?

thank you sooooo much im going out tomorrow to get a dmm. i seen them at wallmart and radioshack. they each had a few kinds. anything specific im looking for? OH AND! when it says to turn all eq settings down on the headunit. i have my bass at -8 should i leave it or put it up to zero? and should i set the others to zero or as far as they go negative and i asume i go off the CEA compliant watt rateing? am i right? haha i got my amp today and the first thing i read when i opened the owners book was CEA COMPLIANT RATEING 1000 watts. OTHER RATEING 1200. i was like damnnn... haha i was shooting for that 1200. oh well 1000 is still plenty.

^^^^^ haha i was scrolling through all the posts waiting to see this answer LOL OH SHIT yeah i was wayyyyy off on that. i gotta re tune that tomorrow haha and its not my headlights dimming. they have always done that even with my old amp. but its my interior lights. im sure my headlights were dimming too though i wasnt looking foward. i was looking at the amp. (not driving of course) but whats an idiot proof way of testing for clipping. tools and stuff? that arnt alot of money haha. is it easier to hear a clipped signal at 50HZ?

so i know you can tell is a sub is clipping by listining too it. or with a DMM. but can you tell by the lights in your car? i put my new amp in tonight and when i was playing some bass tones to tune stuff in and i notice that after a little more then half on my gain my interior lights would dim. (mind you its dark out while im doing all this). and if im correct your sub get a clipped signal once there is not enough power going to your amplifier? so when my lights dim wouldent that mean my cars not producing enough power and there for that would be my clipping point? LOL or would it be wayyyy before that? but anyway i went to the point where my lights dim then backed it off slowly untill the undimmed, then went a tiny bit more. think im okay? i was tuneing while listing to a 34HZ tone beacuse its the loudest in my car. should i not do that? or does it not matter what tone i use.

...dried poo hands...

hahah i hear ya

haha, that shit probably would go everyware wouldent it? ill probably take it easy then. when i first read what you said i was thinking of the seal just breaking. but yeah, thanks for the heads up.

yeah im a little south of chicago. its pretty warm right now. and im sure that trunk gets hott. my car is out in the sun all day too. on the side of my house, or at work. so maybe ill only turn it up for a quick second...or too...i mean, i dooooooo have another can of great stuff =] i realllly <3 bass

ill find out if it holds good tomorrow, when i get some actual watts going to that l7. 1200 to be exact =]