At least now I know who came by and spit on my boat.
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At least now I know who came by and spit on my boat.
So Doug... where were you last night around 11:30 PM?
I agree on the quality of the sub amp. Price was right, figured all it was doing was powering a sub.
What would be a good brand/size.model for this sub:
Kenwood 10" sub: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-twR0E6F...spx?i=113W254M
Anything else I need to improve the quality of? 6.5s, amp for 6.5s?
Doug, all 6.5s are alive and working. I experimented with the gain again. By reducing the gain I lose the pop, only because there is no volume. The HPF is on for the 6.5s amp too.
I spoke with Crutchfield again, this time from the boat. I hooked up a dvd player directly to the sub amp and the sub worked great. I then used the sub RCAs to run the dvd player, same result, sub worked great. So the sub is good, the sub amp is good and the RCAs are good.
He went over the SW1 and SW2 settings on the head unit. To turn the sub on from the head their is a SW1 setting "OFF", "NORMAL" or "REV". This was set to "NORMAL", which is "On". On that same setting is a number setting ranging from -24 to 6. It was set to 0. He suggested setting it to 6...bingo, sub started working. We set the crossover on the sub at the head to 125, set the High Pass Filter to the same 125 and now the system sounds great. He said I may need to set SW1 to "REV" based on different songs.
It was bridged from Sea Ray/factory, 1 bridge to the previous sub and then the remainining 2 channels went out to the 4 outside speakers, which are paralleled together.
I agree that you will never get concert quality sound in a boat, BUT it is possible to be VERY satisfied with your install. I have an exact "concert stage" that I installed 5-6 years ago. Today, I'm still happy with the sound this system produces.
Personally it sounds like your amplifier could be the problem. I have a 6 channel amp with 600amps or so mounted in the engine compartment. The speakers are JL Audio. I can get the details if you want. Let me know!
Good Luck!
Stuart
Check out my pictures and you will see some photos.
Letting you know. The 4 channel 120 watt amp powering the 4 outside 6.5s gets real hot while the sub amp does not.