An interesting thing happened in my system recently. I’ve run both my left and right component sets high-passed around 65Hz for years. Not too long ago, however, the left components stopped playing their full range, almost as if the HP xover had been changed to, say, 800Hz. I still get sound from my woofer (and tweeter), but there’s no midrange on that side of the car. The right side components still play the range they always have.
I’m running a 4-channel PPI bridged. So the right component set is connected to the “front” channel input and the left set is connected to the “rear” input on the amp. So the first thing I did was switch these inputs—if the problem were to switch sides, then the issue would be with something before the amp in my signal chain, and if not, either the amp or something later in the chain was the culprit. Well, the problem didn’t switch sides, and I think that the issue is with my amp.
This has been a really distressing time for me regarding car audio. A month or so ago, the AUX input on my beautiful Denford 8250 died, rendering my MP3 player (most of my in-car music library) useless. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif And since I refuse to carry around 100’s of CDs, I had to order a new head unit. Well, since I’m in college, I don’t really have the tools or facilities to work on my car… not like when I was back home. I’ll be driving across the state in a few weeks, where I’ll have a semi-garage, and will be able to install my new deck and look at the potential amp problem I mentioned above. Hopefully it’s just an issue of knobs being thrown loose, but something tells me that my amp has just been trashed. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif
Anyone ever had a similar problem before?
