New/Unconventional use for a DD1

[Swordlordboy1234]

Did you read what I posted above? You are overthinking this way too much.

The dd-1 detects a signal. That's it. It doesn't matter if it is in phase or 180 degrees reversed. All it sees is a sine wave. In some amps, the signal will come out of the negative terminal instead of the positive one. It's just a design. You don't need to do anything special like reversing your polarity because the manufacturers have already accounted for this. Just wire your speakers up like normal.

If you like the way your setup sounds now after you tweaked with the polarity, that's something different. But to wire everything up in phase all you need to do is wire + to + and - to - lol. Don't over think it

It says in the manual to check the negative if you get no signal from the positive.

Well ill switch it back and take a listen. I did the 1 thing your not supposed to do when testing audio..... I changed more then 1 variable. Lol...

I changed the volume point on my headunit to a known cleaner signal, I changed my gain settings to match my new deck level, and I changed the polarity of 2 of the channels according to the DD1.... So I guess I should switch between on polarity and off polarity and take a listen to pink Floyd the wall, and maybe some Michael Jackson (my go to SQ songs) lol

[Chris Hammer]

Did you read what I posted above? You are overthinking this way too much.

The dd-1 detects a signal. That's it. It doesn't matter if it is in phase or 180 degrees reversed. All it sees is a sine wave. In some amps, the signal will come out of the negative terminal instead of the positive one. It's just a design. You don't need to do anything special like reversing your polarity because the manufacturers have already accounted for this. Just wire your speakers up like normal.

If you like the way your setup sounds now after you tweaked with the polarity, that's something different. But to wire everything up in phase all you need to do is wire + to + and - to - lol. Don't over think it

If it comes out of the negative how does that effect passive crossovers??

[Swordlordboy1234]

If its any consolation.... Lowering from 60 - 56 resulted in way better everything. My doors are louder, my upper mid bass doesn't distort anymore where I used to hear it slightly. And the bass.... Omg... The bass is stupid loud now.

I think it has to do with the dd1 finding distortion due to my improper level on the headunit, so my gains were lower then they should have been.

[Swordlordboy1234]

Did you read what I posted above? You are overthinking this way too much.

The dd-1 detects a signal. That's it. It doesn't matter if it is in phase or 180 degrees reversed. All it sees is a sine wave. In some amps, the signal will come out of the negative terminal instead of the positive one. It's just a design. You don't need to do anything special like reversing your polarity because the manufacturers have already accounted for this. Just wire your speakers up like normal.

If you like the way your setup sounds now after you tweaked with the polarity, that's something different. But to wire everything up in phase all you need to do is wire + to + and - to - lol. Don't over think it

If it comes out of the negative how does that effect passive crossovers??

Not sure but I had everything hooked up positive to positive negative to negative.... I even double checked my RCA's and used my fader balance to make sure fading right went to the right side front and back and I also did the same for front to back to make sure nothing was mixed up