Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Audio My boys needed juice!

aight heres what i got:
2 Boston Ac. 3.5's up front (remember this is an Olds)
2 Kenwood Excelon 6x9's in the rear deck

I was powering these four with a 4x65 watt US Accoustics amp.

The other day at work i was bored, and one of my channels was cutting out a bit i thought, so i was fooling around with the faders and balance on the Aiwa cd-mp3. first i played the front left, then front right, then rear right and hollllly ****e what the hell happened. there was so much bass i started laughing. how could this be? so i tried the rear left 6x9 and wow there it was again! then i played just the rears, and it wasnt so impressive...

this is amazing to me, because i had never done this before. I always had the amp powering all 4 speakers at once. When you'd crank it, the bass would distort. I guess by isolating one speaker at a time, the amp could put all its power there, and my 6x9s sounded like a whole new pair of speakers!!

Well since my Infinity perfect 12.1 is out for warranty, I took the 360 PPI 2 channel that I used to power that and hooked it up to the rear deck speakers. Man those things thump! I couldnt believe it! They hit SOOO loud and SOOOO deep without distorting (25 hz) its insane.

So looks like im in the market for a new amp, cause when the sub comes back, the PPI will go back to powering that.

Peace, jake

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You sure you don't have your speakers hooked up out of phase? I'd experiment by swapping the (-) and (+) to be sure.

This is exactly what happened when I hooked up a pair of subs out of phase. Together, they'd sound like crap. But, if I faded to right or left, the single sub would sound great. Swapped the (+)/(-) on one of the subs, problem solved.

I second Cthomp's thoughts. give it a try and see what happens. The amps also could be the culprit but the phase issue is easy to test and much cheaper than a new amp.

Another question for ya, what guage power and ground wires are you running?

If you've got a multi-amp system with high guage power and ground cables, it could be simply that the amp is not getting enough juice.

Cool website Jake. LOL