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coaxes start clipping at low volume, stock h/u to LOC to two amps, one for subs and one for coaxes
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<blockquote data-quote="SYLrules" data-source="post: 8660233" data-attributes="member: 586670"><p>Just finished an install in my 2016 sorento (my very first complete install by myself!) and everything powers on but im getting some white noise through the coax speakers and if I barely turn the volume up, they distort heavily.</p><p></p><p>The system: 0 ga going to a dist block, two 4 ga runs out, one to a 2 chan pioneer amp powering 4 door speakers (worked great in previous vehicle) and the other to a boss mono amp powering a shallow mount pioneer sub (amp worked great powering two 12" ma audio XLs in previous vehicle, the sub is brand new). The goal was to use gear I already had and do this cheap, so I kept the stock h/u, ran all speaker wires from it to a kicker LOC (KISLOC), single pair of RCAs to an MA audio X over (worked great but last used 10 years ago), two pairs of RCAs going to their respective amps. I know it's not ideal and maybe I could have spent a little more and gone with a LOC/Xover combo, but that KISLOC was only like $18.</p><p></p><p>I tried adjusting the levels on the KISLOC, the Xover, and the pioneer amp, but no matter what, the distortion would come in at about the same low volume when I would start turning up the head unit. I could take a quick video of it tomorrow. Before I finished hooking up the door speakers, I turned everything on and the sub was working but stayed pretty quiet (amp gain is slightly less than half). sub volume also seemed to max out when the radio was turned up half way, didn't seem to get any louder as I cranked the h/u to max. I figured I could address that later as the coax speaker issue is more pressing and may be related to the sub volume issue.</p><p></p><p>I was hoping to keep the stock h/u just because I don't need anything fancy and I like where the knobs and buttons are, but is it possible that the h/u is just crap? I know people usually send their rear speaker outs through this LOC and then run that signal to power a sub only, but in theory, it should work fine how I have it wired, yes? any help is appreciated!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SYLrules, post: 8660233, member: 586670"] Just finished an install in my 2016 sorento (my very first complete install by myself!) and everything powers on but im getting some white noise through the coax speakers and if I barely turn the volume up, they distort heavily. The system: 0 ga going to a dist block, two 4 ga runs out, one to a 2 chan pioneer amp powering 4 door speakers (worked great in previous vehicle) and the other to a boss mono amp powering a shallow mount pioneer sub (amp worked great powering two 12" ma audio XLs in previous vehicle, the sub is brand new). The goal was to use gear I already had and do this cheap, so I kept the stock h/u, ran all speaker wires from it to a kicker LOC (KISLOC), single pair of RCAs to an MA audio X over (worked great but last used 10 years ago), two pairs of RCAs going to their respective amps. I know it's not ideal and maybe I could have spent a little more and gone with a LOC/Xover combo, but that KISLOC was only like $18. I tried adjusting the levels on the KISLOC, the Xover, and the pioneer amp, but no matter what, the distortion would come in at about the same low volume when I would start turning up the head unit. I could take a quick video of it tomorrow. Before I finished hooking up the door speakers, I turned everything on and the sub was working but stayed pretty quiet (amp gain is slightly less than half). sub volume also seemed to max out when the radio was turned up half way, didn't seem to get any louder as I cranked the h/u to max. I figured I could address that later as the coax speaker issue is more pressing and may be related to the sub volume issue. I was hoping to keep the stock h/u just because I don't need anything fancy and I like where the knobs and buttons are, but is it possible that the h/u is just crap? I know people usually send their rear speaker outs through this LOC and then run that signal to power a sub only, but in theory, it should work fine how I have it wired, yes? any help is appreciated! [/QUOTE]
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