Recent content by The Squeakquel

No commercially available music is recorded with an average level of 0db, and you would have to be listening to some highly compressed music to have an average level of -3db. Would I recommend you blast a 0db test tone with that gain setting? No, obviously this would cause some big problems...

I've never understood why people are so worried about their amps being underrated. Even if it did do 1500w it's only a difference of 1.2db which would be borderline audible under ideal conditions, and power compression is going to eat up a large chunk of that. In the end even if it did output...

Not really. And you would have to set the bass boost before setting the gain, and used a test tone of the same frequency as the bass boost. I.E. set the bass boost first, and gain second and not vice-versa. But it'd be a little idiotic to do it this way since you would be forcing the...

You are correct, I wasn't implying they don't. My point was that up until you hit the rail voltage limits of the amplifier the voltage output is going to continue to increase, but that doesn't make it "underrated" just because you measured a voltage beyond the voltage output at rated power...

Honestly your best option is to stay passive. You don't have enough knowledge to properly pull off an active setup right now. I'm not trying to be rude with that statement, just an accurate assessment. The goal of active is to achieve better performance than passive allows for due to the...

Completely unnecessary.....you can do the same thing with a DMM and calculator and put the $150 towards a better use. Also, setting to an exact xover frequency is honestly not important. All that matters is the resultant sound, not the specific frequency. So even the DMM + calculator method...

Pretty simple to understand why they are useless. Any o-scope the average user has access to is not going to have enough resolution to be able to visually identify exactly the point of distortion/clipping, typically you are going to be well over 1% THD before the waveform is visually...

That measurement has nothing to do with the amp being underrated. Your measurement doesn't include distortion, which is important when trying to compare to "rated" power which is rated at a specific distortion level. Every amplifier on the market is capable of producing more power than it's...

Don't increase the bass boost. If you're at ~48V right now, adjusting the voltage to 50V isn't going to make a damn bit of audible difference. My guess would be that you used a 0db test tone to set the gain with a DMM.....which is what's causing your problem of anemic output with music. If...

Neither of those are necessary or useful for setting a gain. The SMD DD-1 is an even worse idea. All you really need is your ear and common sense.

Who ended up getting ahold of this username? Anyways, Goob = worst admin ever. Doesn't really matter who's in the mod staff, as long as Goob admin's the site it'll always be ran into the ground. It's actually a slap in the face to the entire car audio community.....this could have been a...

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