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<blockquote data-quote="tommymilan311" data-source="post: 8354558" data-attributes="member: 664761">As my title says I am using a 10&quot; Alpine type R Sub with 4 ohms of resistance with 1000 W RMS. I am pairing this with a Alpine M1100 amp rated at 650W RMS at 4 ohms and 1100W RMS at 2 Ohms. I have this brought down to 2 ohms and I&#039;m running at roughly 850W (Use multi meters at formulas to take my voltage and resistance to get watts.) The only problem is that it seems very low or quiet... Not loud. I also have type R door speakers, but I&#039;m only pushing those at roughly 25W because of how unflattering the sub is.I&#039;m super hesitant to turn my gain up any louder because I burned through one of these type Rs in about a week with the gain turned up to around 1-2 O&#039;Clock (It is currently at about 10 O&#039;Clock now) Granted I did make some rookie mistakes with &quot;enhancers&quot; on the head unit and forgot to turn any boasters off. I had boasters on with the factory speakers because the had pretty much nothing pumping under 80 Hz. So those are now turned off.Do I have something hooked up or tuned wrong? Okay, so I bridge my dual coil sub (+ to + and - to -) to bring my resistance down to about 2 ohms. I then turn my eq setting on my head unit and amp to flat and tune my gain with multi meters to about 41V or 850 W. (√ 2(Resistance in Ohms) X 1000 (Your desired wattage) = 44V)This sets my gain at about 10 O&#039;Clock. I then have my subsonic setting at about 15-20 Hz, my LP Filter at about 80 HZ, and my bass EQ brought up to about +6 Db. And it still can&#039;t come close to my speakers. It actually sounds good with anything that isn&#039;t supposed to be bassy. Rock, country, metal, reggae, all sound just fine with this but when I listen to hop-hop, pop, or techno/dubstep/D&amp;amp;B it is just a complete disappointment. I did purchase a bass knob so I could just tune the sub down with that when I wanted to listen to less bassy music after all.Would going up to a 12 make a world of difference?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tommymilan311, post: 8354558, member: 664761"] As my title says I am using a 10" Alpine type R Sub with 4 ohms of resistance with 1000 W RMS. I am pairing this with a Alpine M1100 amp rated at 650W RMS at 4 ohms and 1100W RMS at 2 Ohms. I have this brought down to 2 ohms and I'm running at roughly 850W (Use multi meters at formulas to take my voltage and resistance to get watts.) The only problem is that it seems very low or quiet... Not loud. I also have type R door speakers, but I'm only pushing those at roughly 25W because of how unflattering the sub is. I'm super hesitant to turn my gain up any louder because I burned through one of these type Rs in about a week with the gain turned up to around 1-2 O'Clock (It is currently at about 10 O'Clock now) Granted I did make some rookie mistakes with "enhancers" on the head unit and forgot to turn any boasters off. I had boasters on with the factory speakers because the had pretty much nothing pumping under 80 Hz. So those are now turned off. [B]Do I have something hooked up or tuned wrong?[/B] Okay, so I bridge my dual coil sub (+ to + and - to -) to bring my resistance down to about 2 ohms. I then turn my eq setting on my head unit and amp to flat and tune my gain with multi meters to about 41V or 850 W. (√ 2(Resistance in Ohms) X 1000 (Your desired wattage) = 44V)This sets my gain at about 10 O'Clock. I then have my subsonic setting at about 15-20 Hz, my LP Filter at about 80 HZ, and my bass EQ brought up to about +6 Db. And it still can't come close to my speakers. It actually sounds good with anything that isn't supposed to be bassy. Rock, country, metal, reggae, all sound just fine with this but when I listen to hop-hop, pop, or techno/dubstep/D&B it is just a complete disappointment. I did purchase a bass knob so I could just tune the sub down with that when I wanted to listen to less bassy music after all. [B]Would going up to a 12 make a world of difference?[/B] [/QUOTE]

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