Blake Vandercar
CarAudio.com Newbie
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Basically, I think the lows are lacking on my 6.5" woofers, and the sound quality isn't at all what I was hoping for overall. In addition, there's a slight hiss from the tweeters, which I know always occurs at some level when no music is playing-- but you can hear it from 3 feet away which is a slight issue.
Here's my setup. I'll leave out things such my subwoofer, and everything up to the signal path of the 4ch amplifier since using a different, non-HU input to the amp produces the same result:
Front Speakers (5-60W RMS): Rockford Fosgate P165-SE Punch 6.5" Component Speaker System with External Crossover
4ch Amp: Kicker KEY180.4 4x45w 4-Ch Full-Range Smart Amp
The speakers frequency range is 43 Hz to 20 kHz so although my sub does most of the work on the low end, I think my woofers should pick up some of the slack on the upper low end.
I'm using terminal blocks like this in 2 locations in the output speaker signal chain:
, as well as wire taps like this in 2 locations :
is it possible these are decreasing sound quality at a significant level? I could replace them with wire nuts or solder, but would that make the world of difference?
Also, I tried another amp, the Rockford Fosgate R300X4 Prime 4-Channel Amplifier, to isolate the problem to the amp-- but nope, no improvement in SQ.
Here's my setup. I'll leave out things such my subwoofer, and everything up to the signal path of the 4ch amplifier since using a different, non-HU input to the amp produces the same result:
Front Speakers (5-60W RMS): Rockford Fosgate P165-SE Punch 6.5" Component Speaker System with External Crossover
4ch Amp: Kicker KEY180.4 4x45w 4-Ch Full-Range Smart Amp
The speakers frequency range is 43 Hz to 20 kHz so although my sub does most of the work on the low end, I think my woofers should pick up some of the slack on the upper low end.
I'm using terminal blocks like this in 2 locations in the output speaker signal chain:
, as well as wire taps like this in 2 locations :
is it possible these are decreasing sound quality at a significant level? I could replace them with wire nuts or solder, but would that make the world of difference?
Also, I tried another amp, the Rockford Fosgate R300X4 Prime 4-Channel Amplifier, to isolate the problem to the amp-- but nope, no improvement in SQ.
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