Yellow basket question
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Yellow basket question
Hi freshly upgraded to a pair of yellow basket coax in the faring, powered by a cv b54 bridged. Running them at 200w with a dsr1 for crossover/eq and a rockford 2 speaker flash.
Question is: with the crossover set at 80hz 12db if i turn up to my max volume (where I set my gain) I seem to get what sounds like a max excursion or some sort of nasty distorted pop sound on big kick drum hits or similar low frequency sharp sound. I thought that was a fairly conservative crossover for these speakers? Am I just running into an issue of the speaker itself not being broke in enough?
Question is: with the crossover set at 80hz 12db if i turn up to my max volume (where I set my gain) I seem to get what sounds like a max excursion or some sort of nasty distorted pop sound on big kick drum hits or similar low frequency sharp sound. I thought that was a fairly conservative crossover for these speakers? Am I just running into an issue of the speaker itself not being broke in enough?
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6.5gt, 18 RGS. When I said max volume I meant my new max of 4 notches from full where I set my amp. I don't think it's signal distortion, but I'm a bit beyond my element. The electrical side of audio is simple due to my job/ education but the audio specific things I don't know.
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My 1200 4-4 was super sensitive to gains, I made a couple of mistakes that might help you
#1 my test tune wasn't-5, I used the straight 1000db, and the second time when I used the right db test tune i forgot to set my bass & treble flat, so # 3 attempt was golden, just a slight bump on the gains **** and I would go from 28 to 36, not sure how you would set your dsp for voltage at speaker, I don't have one.
#1 my test tune wasn't-5, I used the straight 1000db, and the second time when I used the right db test tune i forgot to set my bass & treble flat, so # 3 attempt was golden, just a slight bump on the gains **** and I would go from 28 to 36, not sure how you would set your dsp for voltage at speaker, I don't have one.
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Distortion is based of off many factors.
My experience with HU and digital media (test signal) rarely show distortion with new HU,s maxed.
Please take that statement with a grain of salt
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my hu showed distortion at an even lower volume! Was measured with a DD 1
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Every head unit I has tested with a dd1 boom, aftermarket or both have shown distortion above a certain mark. As distortion IS based on many factors, above a certain set volume you are NOT gaining volts in volume but distorted signals from a hu. So I will stand by my statement. I did miss read the ops original statement and thought he ran the volume to max and max volume on any hu will distort or at least in EVERY hu I tested.
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Are you guys testing just the signal from the HU? Isolated from Amplifiers DSP and other sources of noise?
Odd to be finding HU distort on a clean Digital test tone.
I would suspect other issues, or maybe the HU are not of good quality?
But a brand name like Kenwood or Pioneer should not show distortion at Full volume on a clean signal as outlined.
Just my 2 cents and experience
Ill be installing a rebuilt ARC 600 this week
Ill see if I cant get a Video up as I tune
Odd to be finding HU distort on a clean Digital test tone.
I would suspect other issues, or maybe the HU are not of good quality?
But a brand name like Kenwood or Pioneer should not show distortion at Full volume on a clean signal as outlined.
Just my 2 cents and experience
Ill be installing a rebuilt ARC 600 this week
Ill see if I cant get a Video up as I tune