Recent content by Jeffy

Ok I finally got everything hooked up to an o-scope. The speaker outputs from the head unit were distorted like crazy so I completely removed them from the harness and threw them away. The RCA outputs were great though, they had perfect sine waves up to volume level 29 out of 30, once it hit...

Yes, I completely replaced them with a pair of JL C5075-CT. That's an interesting approach for sure. I know that there's plenty more I could do for my system, but I'm not trying to get too in-depth with this. Later on I'm sure I'll revisit this, but for now this was supposed to be a short...

Great insight, I appreciate your reply. The reason I have so many speakers, is because quite simply that's how many came in the car. It's an SUV (4Runner) with front door 6x9s, rear passenger 6.75's, and tailgate 6.75's, plus the little 3.5's in the dash to help bring the sound stage up. Yes...

Haha yea that's a different story. I get plenty of mids with four 6.75" speakers, two 6x9s, and my JL 12W6 helps even out the mid-bass and lows. I think it was very nicely balanced until everything got weird

I've always been under the impression that for a midrange to sound best, it should be at least 4", I guess I'm wrong here. But like I said, I'd be very happy to get my JL 3.5" speakers sounding good in there again, I really like how everything sounded when that was working properly. I...

I'll check those out. I really liked the features this head unit had, I'll be sorry to see it go. It was basically a full Android tablet built into a double din enclosure, it even did WiFi pairing with my phone's internet.

Well the dash speakers are only 3.5", and I don't want to start cutting to fit a good midrange in there. I did that on my last car and never liked how it came out (didn't look good). I was really happy with how it sounded right before these issues, I'd be perfectly happy bringing it back to that...

Ok well that's easy enough. Am I doing anything wrong with the rest of my system? Is that a good combo for the amps/ speakers? After I get a new HU I'll just run the new dash speakers from the PDX amp to make it nicer

Ok thanks, I'm not exactly an expert on all this. If what you say is what's happening in my system, an o-scope will identify this pretty quickly, correct?

Yea I figured that was a part of it, but why would the signal to the amps be compromised? And why would brand new tweeters sound bad at all volumes?

That's what I'm starting to think... But would that effect the output to the amps as well? Why would the signal to them still sound bad? I'm tracking down an o-scope to test the HU and see if that's the issue. I've triple checked all wires and they're good. They're about 3 weeks old and well...

I'm currently tracking down an O-scope to test the head unit. Any other ideas?

I need some serious help, I've researched for countless hours and I'm about to lose my freaking mind. No matter what I do, I can't get rid of a high frequency crackle/ distortion, and I keep blowing speakers. I bought the car a month ago and entirely replaced the stereo system, including running...