Car sterio needs some tuning?

[Dhawk 10+ year member]

Hey guys, I recently got the Kenwood P-W1200 12' Party Pack(Best-buy spec link), for $150 it was definitely a steal but the amp provided is definitely underpowered. The main problem I have is when the bass hits hard my music cuts out - could this be bad wiring in the console or my amp being underpowered(I had the wiring done by best-buy)? I am definitely planning to buy a new amp, perhaps 550 watts? Would go more but I think anything over 600 watts would probably blow these tiny subs. What do you guys think? I'm no professional, so insight could definitely help. Also, if you would, what would be some good mid speakers to put in the trunk of a tiny 96 nissan sentra(Considering I mostly listen to rock and prefer to hear music and not my trunk rattle)?

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[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

For $150 with the bass cutting out is not a deal. Most likely due to lack of power to your amp or your impedance is too low. You can use a 5000watt amp and not blow them, you would just have to know how to set it. go back to best buy and tell them to fix it!

 

[Dhawk 10+ year member]

It isn't the bass that cuts out unless I turn the sterio up too loud and overload the amp. The music, the actual lyrics of the song gets fuzzy and turns down until the bass hit is over. Maybe I just need a capacitor?

 

[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

so then it has nothing to do with your amp. Its your headunit. get a better one.

 

[MikeyF 10+ year member]

It isn't the bass that cuts out unless I turn the sterio up too loud and overload the amp. The music, the actual lyrics of the song gets fuzzy and turns down until the bass hit is over. Maybe I just need a capacitor?

Uhh ohhh, better put your flame suit on. Elohelohel.

But in all honesty, it sounds like your impedance level is not correct with the impedance level of the amp...

 

[Dhawk 10+ year member]

You can flame me all you want, I've never claimed to be any sort of wizz at car audio. Hell I'll be the first to say I know very little about it besides the basics. My headunit is a JVC KD-S26, could it just be the wires arn't connected right & are falling out of the connecters? Or just simply the headunit itself is crap

 

[MikeyF 10+ year member]

I wasn't flaming you at all, man. I was just stating someone will more than likely come on here, and do so. No, you don't need a capacitor. You could have the polarity hooked up wrong in the speakers. Does your amp get quite hot as well, when it cuts out?

 

[Dhawk 10+ year member]

Honestly not too sure, this may be the problem but I cant be certain, but on my duel sub box one set of wire colors are mixed and one set arn't, in other words, on the left sub the black is connected to black, red to red. On the other, Black connected to red, red to black. But if I switch the red/red black/black on the right side the bass only hits out of 1 sub and it makes almost no sound.

 

[Dhawk 10+ year member]

 

[MikeyF 10+ year member]

Hard to tell without seeing how they are hooked up at the sub. Do you have a 2ohm load, or 4ohm load?

 

[*SlappinAzz*]

You can flame me all you want, I've never claimed to be any sort of wizz at car audio. Hell I'll be the first to say I know very little about it besides the basics. My headunit is a JVC KD-S26, could it just be the wires arn't connected right & are falling out of the connecters? Or just simply the headunit itself is crap

MikeyF is a 19 year old boy who can't get out of the 130's db, don't take his advice, as he speaks out the ***.

 

[MikeyF 10+ year member]

Hahahahahahahahaha. You mad bro? I'm 20 sweetheart. And last time I checked, i'm not a boy. I've never been metered, so i'm glad you know what I hit. If you can PM me pics of your set-up, with username and date, I might stop flaming you BassX. But probably not because you don't know shit, and told someone to put ductape over a crack in their sub, and it will fix it. Other than that, stop talking, as you don't know shit. Also, stop post dumping peoples threads. As I said in the past, PM me if you got a problem.

 

[Dhawk 10+ year member]

Honestly I have no idea what ohms are and the meanings of 2ohms or 4ohms sorry //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Like I said, I don't know much car audio.

 

[*SlappinAzz*]

hahahahahahahahaha. You mad bro? I'm 20 sweetheart. And last time i checked, i'm not a boy. I've never been metered, so i'm glad you know what i hit. If you can pm me pics of your set-up, with username and date, i might stop flaming you bassx. But probably not because you don't know shit, and told someone to put ductape over a crack in their sub, and it will fix it. Other than that, stop talking, as you don't know shit. Also, stop post dumping peoples threads. As i said in the past, pm me if you got a problem.

fail

 

[Dhawk 10+ year member]

Was looking on the internet and found this:

* 60 Watts RMS X 2 At 4 Ohms 2-channel Amplifier

* Built-in Low-pass Filter (80 Hz Fixed, 12 DB/octave)

* 50-200 Watts RMS (800 Watts Peak Power) 12" 8-ohm Subwoofers

* Frequency Response: 28-800 Hz

So I guess they are 8-ohm or 4-ohm each?