Another noob question from the audio noob

[io_303]

So I got my free walmart amp and my poewr bass 10" installed just fine, It hit ok for a 10 in a buick on a walmart amp. Then my headunit broke(the clip that holds the face plate on broke off), so I got a Pioneer headunit with a nice generic preout, well I get it all hooked up and the sub dos not hit as hard anymore. Its more blurred, I checked the specs on my old headunit and the preouts were both plain preouts and not sub preouts. I have also gone through all my settings in my new headunit and it still just does not sound the same. What is going on here???

 

[$lick Rick]

it's the difference in the deck

how many sets of outputs do you have?
and what set is your amp connected to?

if i were you, i'd just find a deck with sub preouts

 

[io_303]

there is only 1 preout on this deck, and tha amp is hooked to it....I dont want to buy another new deck, it there a filter I can hook to the pre out or do i have to live with it until i can afford a new one

 

[$lick Rick]

well you could buy an external crossover.... that would turn your one set of preouts into 2 or 3 or more with seperate controls for each


OR what you could do is buy caps for your surround speakers, run them inline, and then turn the bass up on the deck and run a bass coil inline to the sub

the caps dont let bass through to the surround speakers so they wont distort, and the bass coil only allows the low frequencies to go to the sub so you wont get muffled voices or anything like that... it wont work as well but it will work and should only cost a few bucks

 

[io_303]

well you could buy an external crossover.... that would turn your one set of preouts into 2 or 3 or more with seperate controls for each


OR what you could do is buy caps for your surround speakers, run them inline, and then turn the bass up on the deck and run a bass coil inline to the sub

the caps dont let bass through to the surround speakers so they wont distort, and the bass coil only allows the low frequencies to go to the sub so you wont get muffled voices or anything like that... it wont work as well but it will work and should only cost a few bucks

I have bass blockers on my front 4" stock speakers when i put new 6X9s in the back, so thats only 2 I would need, but i am looking at crossovers now. but are active or passive better? sorry for all the noob questions, I am doing alot of googling

 

[$lick Rick]

active, and dont appologize for asking bro

 

[io_303]

Anyone hear of audiopipe brand crossover...here are the specs on the one i am looking at
*POWER SOURCE: 14.4 VOLTS DC NEGATIVE GROUND
*INPUT CURRENT: 0.5 AMP MAX.
*DISTORTION: 0.01% THD AT 1 V OUTPUT LEVEL
*FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 10Hz - 30k Hz +/- 3db
*S/N RATIO (A WEIGHTED): >95db
*SEPARATION: 60db
*CROSSOVER FREQUENCIES:
*FRONT HIGH-PASS: (x1): 32-800Hz (x10): 320-8k Hz
*REAR HIGH-PASS: 32-800Hz
*SUBWOOFER: 50-160Hz
*SUBWOOFER BOOST: SINGLE OCTAVE 0db-12db AT 40-120Hz
*INPUT IMPENDANCE: >10k Ohms
*OUTPUT IMPENDANCE: <1k Ohms
*OUTPUT GAIN: +3db
*OUTPUT VOLTAGE LEVEL: 5 VOLTS MAX.
*DIMENSIONS: 6-7/8"W x 7-1/2"L x 1-3/8"H (175 x 191 x 35mm)

 

[stolle]

yo zach, i have an old radioshack active crossover thats works pretty well you can have it if you want it...

 

[io_303]

yo zach, i have an old radioshack active crossover thats works pretty well you can have it if you want it...

FREE seems to be the key word of my system... I will take it, I will be back in St. Louis on thursday for good. I will give you a call sometime on the weekend

 

[stolle]

FREE seems to be the key word of my system... I will take it, I will be back in St. Louis on thursday for good. I will give you a call sometime on the weekend

sounds good...