Breaking In A Subwoofer?

[dbqkqh]

Clipping is distortion.. if you hear really punchy bass and around 7-8 then turn it up and it starts to sound *muddy* i guess you can call it, you know its clipping... its very bad for your subs and can fry them if your not careful

turn it up to 15 and see if it sounds muddy, a few seconds up that high shouldnt really harm it.... then turn it down.. i would really check your gains tho with the DMM tho bro

*edit* are you in ohio? i can have a look man if you are in the columbus area

Another one of my biggest fear =\

If I have my subs constantly playin, will they eventually burn out? (Another reason why I stumble to raise up the volume)

I use to have a factory subwoofer (stock) at 8" but for some reason, it just burned out. However, at that time, I was ignorant, had my music playing at level 20/40. :01nocomment8so:

Because of that incident, I am just scared to even turn it up past 10 !!!

After my buddy (the tuning guy), did his "magic" he had my sub playing at around 15-17 volume. He really loved my boston acoustics .

So yeah, any tips on avoiding future burn outs in speakers?

I'm defintly going to try the volume @ 15 and look for distortion. (Yeah, I do know what that is , just never knew what clipping meant )

Unfortunately, I'm not in Ohio~ I'm a bit south east of Ohio.

Thanks for the help Army_guy614 !

[dbqkqh]

just thought about it... it could sound like its really really loud because you dont have the mids/highs to compensate for the bass that you have added now as well... so maybe get a little 100w amp to put on your door speakers would help even the bass to vocal ratio as well

Yeah, I had an up-to-date factory amp installed to help with door speakers and such, and the ratio is somewhat fair. (The subwoofer is not powering over the voices in the song)

You can still hear the song ~ Except the fact that it's at 8

Good thought, however, TL series has stock amps in them already

[Team_DC-Derrick]

let us know how good the sub sounds at 15/20 or so man

[dbqkqh]

let us know how good the sub sounds at 15/20 or so man

Yeah, I'm bout to check up on that right now.

Thank you Army_guy614

in the end, I'm probably going to end up getting that DMM and then come back in this forum on how to use it!

[Team_DC-Derrick]

if you right click on the pic i provided, it gives in details on what to do, just have to save and make it bigger