Extremely Upset

Mithrandir · Post by **Mithrandir** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:03 pm

I have posted about this before and its really bugging me. Time and time again I have been told dont turn your gain up high, Dont buy sony products, Your box has to be cut exact. My cousins system goes against all of this and he has never had one problem with it. What is the deal with this. My speakers have blown atleast twice and recently one of my Infinity Reference subs blew (thank god I had a warrenty). Now my dash and rear speakers are starting to sound shitty again ( my fault I abused em so i know why they are breakin up). Im really getting pissed off because to the best of my knowledge everything is installed right. Oh yeah i forgot to mention my amps blew twice too. Is it possible that the car is just screwed up? Or i have extremely bad luck / a curse on me or my cousin is just blessed / extremely lucky. His entire system is sony, his box is home made and the gaps are filled with foam paper, Its twice the size of a normal box for his subs and he has the gain turned up the whole way and has had it like this for atleast 3 months, hes had his system for a good 6-8 months. Im not hoping his system fries im just mad that mine keeps gettin screwed up.

kevinberry1 · Post by **kevinberry1** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:30 pm

Tell us about your system. What type of speakers,HU,amp(s), are you using and it what applications? Maybe someone has some answers for you if you give some specifics.

lotas · Post by **lotas** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:07 pm

Mithrandir wrote:I have posted about this before and its really bugging me. Time and time again I have been told dont turn your gain up high, Dont buy sony products, Your box has to be cut exact. My cousins system goes against all of this and he has never had one problem with it. What is the deal with this. My speakers have blown atleast twice and recently one of my Infinity Reference subs blew (thank god I had a warrenty). Now my dash and rear speakers are starting to sound shitty again. Im really getting pissed off because to the best of my knowledge everything is installed right. Oh yeah i forgot to mention my amps blew twice too. Is it possible that the car is just screwed up? Or i have extremely bad luck / a curse on me or my cousin is just blessed / extremely lucky. His entire system is sony, his box is home made and the gaps are filled with foam paper, Its twice the size of a normal box for his subs and he has the gain turned up the whole way and has had it like this for atleast 3 months, hes had his system for a good 6-8 months. Im not hoping his system fries im just mad that mine keeps gettin screwed up.

funny you should mention something like that. my brother in his truck has two cheap panasonic speakers run off the entry level pioneer HU and i think it sounds better than my cdt ef components off a jl 300/4

i just try to stay positive thinking im a dumbass and i have a setting wrong somewhere

which is probably true...

anyways it will probably catch up with him, fried amp, wear on electrical system, fried voice coils, it cant take abuse for too long.

Mithrandir · Post by **Mithrandir** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:17 pm

Ok, here is my system. sony 3.5 dash speakers, junky ass bottom of the line sony deck, sony xplod 6x9s. Now with the sony keep in mind he has the same 6x9s. 4 gauge amp kit, and im using a US Acoustics amp, its 150 rms per channel to power 2 infinity reference subs. My gain is slightly more than a quarter of the way up. My head unit is 2 volt preamp the gain starts at 8 volt. I know I abuse my sony 3.5s and 6x9s so i really shouldnt complain about them blowing, I turn em up just below where I hear distortion so yeah thats probably why they are blowing. My sub, I have no Idea why It would have blown though, the gain is set decent, but its been cold recently and the trunk isnt sealed very well so im thinking the coil of the one sub that blew got brittle or somthing. I dunno, I just wanna make sure that when i get a better system my nice speakers wont blow because ill be pissed lol.

So basically im wondering why my sub blew with the gain set respectably and his havent yet with the gain the whole way up.

Also both my amps blew before, the us acoustics and my jbl 1200.1, neither had the gain up past 1/2 yet his amp runs strong at full gain and its a sony.

I no long run my amp at 1/2 gain. Its set at a little more than a quarter, probably 3/8ths.

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:49 am

Sony stuff is junk, us and everyone else knows it.

*gulp*I think their head units are the best thing they got going*

The rest, just utter garbage.

When its cold out you just cant hop in your car and blast the subs/speakers. You need to give them (and the amps) ample time to warm up.

Not sure why you would be blowing amps. COuld be just bad luck, or when you blow a speaker it blows closed (short).