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I'm not sure how the BT sound quality is with these new decks though, I remember I had a JVC deck with BT and used to play music over it all the time about 3-4 years ago and the sq from BT was significantly worse than using USB or even Aux. Has it got better over the years?

If your looking to buy something you can "grow into" then id go with the crescendo and wait it out a bit. The sundown is less power, I don't really like buying used car audio as a lot of my friends have had bad luck with it, and I've also heard that Hifonics aren't the greatest amps. Good luck man

I just bought a brand new sound ordnance 4 channel amp and am still waiting for a new set of speakers for my car. in the meantime I decided to test out a pair of some old alpine type r 6.5s I pulled out of my old car. they don't fit so I put them in a hasty cardboard box to put in the backseat. after installing the amp and hooking up the speakers as rears with the rcas and unplugging my rear stock speakers the alpine hooked up to the amp weren't playing at all. I remember these speakers were working perfectly before and have just been sitting in my house since. I made sure everything was wired properly, the amp turns on, protection light doesn't go on or anything and I just can't see where I went wrong. anyone have any ideas what it could be?

so I looked at the fuse on the power wore cause I noticed the amp stopped turning on even and it wasnt connected anymore. after fixing it and tightening up the remote turn on and rewiring the speakers to the amp they started working

alright so the speakers do work.. how could I find out if Its the amp itself or my wiring?

the rcas are brand new and I checked That they're plugged in right, I can try to hook up the speakers to the stock wiring and see if they run off the deck I guess. I also saw something in the manual for my deck saying "do not connect anything to the speakers leads if not connected to a speaker". does this mean I need to cut the wires for the rear speakers from the back of the deck even though I unplugged the rears already?

Hey guys, i'm a new member here and I was looking to get a little bit of help with my car audio setup. I recently bought a Skar Audio VVX 12" 4ohm DVC sub off SSA here and have it hooked up to a kicker zx1000.1 in a 1.6 cu. ft. ported box tuned to 32 hz. It slams pretty nice, shakes the hell out of my car and blurs my vision so I'm pretty satisfied with it. However, I'm pretty much running it on my stock electrical (I have a 2006 Pontiav Wave btw). My alternator is rated at 100A and my battery is rated at 550CCA and 55Ah. My headlights and my dashboard dim heavily even while driving but especially when stopped. I wouldn't normally care about this but on certain songs when my sub is slamming really hard i start to notice a strange smell. I have confirmed that it does come from the sub as it does smell the strongest from the ports and the surface of the cone gets quite warm to the touch when this occurs. I've done a bit of research and I believe that the smell is the paper and glue from the cone burning, although ive also read from some sources that this is normal in new sub woofers. I also realized that since my voltage is dropping so low, it is probably causing clipping in the signal which is why the sub is overheating. So my question is, assuming my theory on the cause of the smell is correct, what should I upgrade to keep my voltage from dropping low? I am a student and don't have the biggest budget so I can't exactly go all out. I was thinking of getting a second battery in the trunk but don't know if that'd be sufficient, or if there are any prerequisites to that such as upgrading the alternator or my battery under the hood. Please give me some opinions on what I should do, I would really appreciate any help. I should also mention my head unit has a 4V pre amp out, and i never play it past 75% total volume, my bass boost on the amp is set to 0, my gain is at about 2/3. Let me know if you need any other info and thanks for taking the time to read through this, i see it is quite long.

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So i just upgraded my battery under the hood to a northstar agm 880cca battery that barely fits in the tray (its not even sitting flat) and the problem seems to be gone, my lights dont dim and my sub is not overheating even playing the songs that it usually would have overheated on. I'm gonna start slowly turning my gain up slowly cause id like it to be a little louder still. as for the big 3 upgrade, im trying to find a place in my city that sells 0guage wire and im going to get my mechanic to do it when i get my clutch changed this week since he has to take the engine out anyway and will have easy access to everything thanks for the help everyone

my bass boost is turned to 0 and the gain is at about 2/3, I never hear any distortion or unwanted sounds when playing my music, just that weird smell filling ny car. I haven't done the Big 3 upgrade yet and Im running true 4gauge wire to my amp and ground from ampI don't think ny car can fit a very big battery in it so it's hard to find a decent one. 06 Pontiac wave, it's basically an aveo

okay thanks, I'm looking into buying one of the xspower batteries asap. will this help stop ny sub from overheating or am I just overpowering it way too much and playing it too heavily?