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ok so i bought my alpine the other day and it has 2 volt pre-outs. well, i hook up my Fosgate 1000bd i was using and it wasnt anywhere as near as loud as i thought it should have been. i had it on the 2 DD 12's running the same ohm load (2) as when i had it in the bronco and the 12's were like 5 times louder.

is it because the cd player in the bronco is an eclipse with 5 volt pre-outs or because i had twice the cone area in the bronco?

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That should be what it is I went from 2v to 5v with my new deck and there was a huge difference it got a lot louder.

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I went from an older Alpine deck with 4v pre-outs to a newer Alpine with only 2v pre-outs and noticed a pretty substantial drop....then went to a kenwood with 5volt and it was "back" to how I remember it and at no point did i change the gains.

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ok so i bought my alpine the other day and it has 2 volt pre-outs. well, i hook up my Fosgate 1000bd i was using and it wasnt anywhere as near as loud as i thought it should have been. i had it on the 2 DD 12's running the same ohm load (2) as when i had it in the bronco and the 12's were like 5 times louder.

is it because the cd player in the bronco is an eclipse with 5 volt pre-outs or because i had twice the cone area in the bronco?

there is a separate subwoofer control on all alpine head units... you need to turn that up to +15 for it to get full signal from your amp... It will sound wayy louder if you adjust this setting...the pre-out voltage shouldn't make that big of a difference.

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there is a separate subwoofer control on all alpine head units... you need to turn that up to +15 for it to get full signal from your amp... It will sound wayy louder if you adjust this setting...the pre-out voltage shouldn't make that big of a difference.

i played with the that control and it didnt help

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if your gain is set correctly.... there shouldn't be a difference at all

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