CMX kicks

[Gary S 10+ year member]

Like sunfire1 said, there is also a break-in period for speakers... they will probably sound different after a few weeks.

 

[tmoney 10+ year member]

idk what to say man but mines sounds good wit only about 75 watts. check ur tweeter levers and check to see if any of ur wires are touching. something dont sound rigth at all. u may have to swap + and -!!

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

ok i figured it out. im retarded ha ha. im using an old orion 4ch amp bridged to power these cmx's. and i dont have a manual for it. i found one online and turns out i had a setting wrong. i was combining both L and R signal into each channel. so now that i got it fixed its much clearer and louder. it still needs a little tweeking, but i think my EQ should take care of that.

downside is that now my midbass went down //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif maybe if i set the attentuation level back to linear that will go back to normal...

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

think i need to reset the gains?

 

[kross 10+ year member]

Maybe it just sounds lower in comparison, since the tweets are louder now? Anyway, if you have your tweets on the dash firing up, you'll need to EQ the tweets down (or attenuate via the passive crossover, if it has that ability. My Germs do, don't know about CMX).

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

Maybe it just sounds lower in comparison, since the tweets are louder now? Anyway, if you have your tweets on the dash firing up, you'll need to EQ the tweets down (or attenuate via the passive crossover, if it has that ability. My Germs do, don't know about CMX).

yup, they do too. i turned it up one notch b4 i figured out what i was doing wrong. now its a little too bright, so i think im gonna go back to linear.

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

well its been less than a month and it looks like my cmx's are dead already! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/verymad.gif.3f39c5c2fd57527b671fad3efdfac756.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/verymad.gif.3f39c5c2fd57527b671fad3efdfac756.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif

i havent figured out the problem yet but they just cut out one day and it appears that theyve been fried somehow. signal was NOT clipped whatsoever so i really am at a lose for this. if rainbow doesnt cover this im gonna raise hell.

 

[aeon 10+ year member]

where'd you get them from? if you got them from one of the guys on here try talking to them about it and work something out.

people are giving them 200 watts and to me, that seem like a little to much. they're rated at 150 watts for a reason and hat's where i'm keeping mine. i've had mine on for over a month now and have no problems at all.

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

where'd you get them from? if you got them from one of the guys on here try talking to them about it and work something out.
people are giving them 200 watts and to me, that seem like a little to much. they're rated at 150 watts for a reason and hat's where i'm keeping mine. i've had mine on for over a month now and have no problems at all.

i got them from premieraudio who is a rainbow dealer. i have been talking to him and he is helping me try to figure out exactly what happened. but i will be seriously pissed if rainbow claims this is my fault and wont cover it.

ive heard of multiple people giving these upwards of 250-300watts and mine were only getting 200. 200 seems to be the standard for them too. so there is no reason for these to have quit on me.

 

[aeon 10+ year member]

well i hope everything works out for you.

btw, how do you think these speakers?

 

[jblayz1 10+ year member]

i had CMX kicks. to aggressive for my taste. i could not get them dialed in right for the life of me. 200rms should be fine if you're running passive. to me they just sound to harsh. i could not get them to sound right via crossover OR eq, active. and i was only sending the tweets 25 watts each.

 

[Latina33 10+ year member]

i had CMX kicks. to aggressive for my taste. i could not get them dialed in right for the life of me. 200rms should be fine if you're running passive. to me they just sound to harsh. i could not get them to sound right via crossover OR eq, active. and i was only sending the tweets 25 watts each.

And I will be getting in my set of CMX Kicks within the next couple of days, thanks to jblayz1. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fro.gif.c695f1f814b01c4ad99fe7f8cccadd29.gif

I had a set of non-Kick CMX's a couple of months ago, running them at 210w RMS passive, and they sounded great. They are a little on the agressive side, but I kinda like that with a component set, personally. I don't like Focal or MB Quart aggressive, but the CMX sound works really well with what I like in my sound.

I hope all turns out well with your Kicks, Ryan. If you can't get them replaced for whatever reason, i'd look into a set of Boston Pro60's or the Pioneer Premier 720 comps.

 

[jblayz1 10+ year member]

let me know when you get those, justin.

 

[aeon 10+ year member]

hmmm.. that's weird that you find them to harsh. i have the kicks also and it can be harsh some times, but most of the time it sounds just about right. i have my tweets on the sail panels so that might have helped a little with the harshness. when i had them pointed at the windshield, they did seem pretty harsh. i'm running passive right now but thinking about running active if i ever get the alpine 9887.

latin, did you make it to the meet?

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

well i hope everything works out for you.
btw, how do you think these speakers?

huh?