Added new hu..fine tuning questions.
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Added new hu..fine tuning questions.
Hi all, I had a kenwood x790 in my 02 z28 for about 7-8 years and decided to get a new one. At the time, the x790 was a upper level hu. I was going to get a pioneer 80 prs, but went with a kenwood x996 due to hd radio and price was too good to pass up. Soon as I turned it on, it sounded much better than the older x790. I'm running 4 infinity kappa 6.75s(62.7i) 2 ohm off the stock monsoon amp, ho alternator and old school mtx amp powering 2 memphis audio 10s in a flip box. Overall, with new hu, everything sounds much better, even the monsoon amp seems like its more powerfull now(not sure why, i even used my old kenwood connector) so nothing changed wiring wise. So heres my questions. I turned off all stupid sound enhancers, set my front crossovers at 70hz, back 70hz and sub 70 and below. The 13 band eq has q settings and slope and is really confusing me. I set the first 3 eq settings +2 +2 +2 then +1..rest 0 across. I really just need a starting point to go from. and slopes. thanks
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I turned off all stupid sound enhancers, set my front crossovers at 70hz, back 70hz and sub 70 and below. The 13 band eq has q settings and slope and is really confusing me. I set the first 3 eq settings +2 +2 +2 then +1..rest 0 across. I really just need a starting point to go from. and slopes. thanks
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Personally I would raise the cutoff, atleast for the sub anyway, 70 is just to low in my book to top out the subs range, I set the one on my Pioneer at 125. been awhile since I've touched an EQ on that level and frankly I forget all the nuances of those settings.
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ok, I did turn subs up to 120 and it does give a fuller sound(used hotel California to test and there is a spot at start with 3 drum beats that's sounded flat, changing it to 120hz brought the sound it is supposed to sound like back, Thanks.
I did notice my old hu had 5 volt outs and new has 4 volt, so the sub is not as loud, will have to turn up the amp a little. I may go with a 4 channel amp in car now, with a little more power than the monsoon amp, the monsoon does sound really good now with the new hu, but I noticed if I go up in the volume level, say 26 or over(max is 35) I get a unusual sound kind of like a gurgle tinny/hiss sound, is hard to explain, at 26 and below it sound very very good. Could that be the monsoon amp clipping?
I did notice my old hu had 5 volt outs and new has 4 volt, so the sub is not as loud, will have to turn up the amp a little. I may go with a 4 channel amp in car now, with a little more power than the monsoon amp, the monsoon does sound really good now with the new hu, but I noticed if I go up in the volume level, say 26 or over(max is 35) I get a unusual sound kind of like a gurgle tinny/hiss sound, is hard to explain, at 26 and below it sound very very good. Could that be the monsoon amp clipping?
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ok, skip my question about the Monsoon amp clipping, it is not the monsoon amp. The issue comes from certain mp3s, I can put 30 mp3s on a usb stick, all 320kbps format and 3 or 4 of them will have this weird tin sounding pitch at times, I am going to try to re process them and see if it helps. It just happens to be the same songs I was trying to tune the hu at first, so really threw me off, hopefully now I can fix the issue.