Audiocontrol DQS

[Sarthos 10+ year member]

I have one of these and its pretty nice. Problem with it though is tuning the gain correctly. It says to have the stereo at 3/4 volume and to turn the input gain knob up until the "input maximized" light flashes with the music. I did that with my Alpine CDA-9883 and even maximizing the input gain it still didn't flash. I thought it might be the weak 2 volt outputs so today I got a new headunit, an Eclipse 8051 with 8 volt outputs. I turned the gain all the way up again and the headunit to 3/4 and it still didn't flash. Finally at full volume it flashed a tiny bit. Anyway, why wouldn't the input maximized light flash? Could it have been the CD I used (Billy Ray Cyrus country CD was the closest thing) or could the unit be faulty or I need to set some setting on the equalizer or stereo? Any help would be much appreciated.

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[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

settings on your eq should be flat when doing this.

usually when doing that you are supposed to use a "dynamic" cd... so something probably a little louder, more crazy than billy ray cyrus lol maybe try something with a little higher vocals or something rock oriented.

 

[Sarthos 10+ year member]

Is there like a test track online I can download and use? A lot of my stuff is pretty similar. Only thing I have that might do decent bass is some Waylon Jennings or some Kraftwerk for the dynamic-ness. Not sure what exactly to use //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[Sarthos 10+ year member]

So, any good suggestions for level matching?