Recent content by Gawdzila

Awesome, I'll just leave the rears hooked up to the HU and hope for the best. Thanks

That is what I wanted to do but I was curious if, in general, setting the pre-outs to "rear" would shut off the speaker-level signal to the rears from the HU? Hm, I hadn't thought of doing that, running 4 channels from a single set of pre-outs. I think I'll have an EQ, though, based on an...

Hey all, I'm a stereo installation newb with a setup question. Things should be mostly straightforward, but I do have one question about the rear speakers. I was contemplating just leaving the rears unpowered but I'd like to have some rear fill, especially for back seat passengers. What I...

Hey Having a physics degree, I feel qualified to say that periodic motion is one of the most important subjects in all of physics. Indeed, periodic motion has a lot more to do with car audio than you think. Both electrical signals and sound waves behave very similarly, and they are both...

Awesome, thanks for the advice! I hadn't even considered an EQ. She may not want to buy the extra equipment, in which case I suppose I'll stick with sub+speaker-level inputs for the amp, but if she doesn't mind the extra $$ that's my favorite option so far. Is there anything else I need to...

That's an interesting idea, but I don't know much about how to integrate an EQ. Would I just send the full-range signal from the pre-amp to the EQ and let the EQ send sub and speaker signals separately to the amp? Is that superior to what I was going to do even aside from more sound adjustment...

I have a degree in physics, so I can say with authority that this is not true. Total resistance to current flow is just the sum of all the resistances. In the case of a linear resistor like wire, the total resistance is equal to the per-length resistance multiplied by the length of wire. The...

Hey forum Noob here. I'm helping to set my friend up with some decent audio on her old Civic on a tight budget. She's not primarily looking for ultimate loudness or hitting power, just strong bass and sound quality. I'm not exactly an experienced installer, though, so I wanted to get some...