Garbage MA Subwoofer/Parts?

[SPLaudio 5,000+ posts]

the 152's are the better ones. sounds like you might be playing below tunning u interested in selling the broken one?

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

not to hate on ma but its not hard to rip spiders and make there glue fail.

Usually,but not always,if your ripping spiders its user error playing below tuning in a ported box.Which is basically free airing the sub and thats not good on the suspension.

I have 2 of the 15" XL models. I had them for 3 months on about 3/4s their rated and one cooked and siezed up on me. ROFL. Other one was still fine. I had to pay 25 bucks to them for shipping, and pay 25 bucks for shipping myself when i shipped it. Cool thing about MA is whenever something craps out they send you a new one, however i wont make a mistake buying their equipment again. I think the other one i have is gonna crap out soon too, coil is rubbing bad when you press on it lightly at an angle. Im gonna sell them off to someone local ASAP and get some other 15s or 12s.

And if you push on the cone at an angle of coarse its gonna rub:crazy:

Oh and about their cust service, dont even bother. If you deal with the same "anaba group" i deal with all youll be able to do is ship it back and get a replacement. It took over 2 months for me to get a replacement amp from them some time ago, i sold that brand new POS the day i recieved it back from them. lol

Its sounds like you were clipping the shit out of them then.

Strange it only took them 10days to return my equipment.But I guess each insance is gonna be differant.I just got lucky

 

[I Like Waffle]

Dont think i clipped them at all, gain was only halfway up on my M500 and im sure it couldve gone up more without distorting, one of them died when my GF turned my vol up to 62, so im sure they clipped then. Seems like theyd take more abuse though, being clipped for 5 secs i figured was no big deal.

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

Dont think i clipped them at all, gain was only halfway up on my M500 and im sure it couldve gone up more without distorting, one of them died when my GF turned my vol up to 62, so im sure they clipped then. Seems like theyd take more abuse though, being clipped for 5 secs i figured was no big deal.

Without setting your gains with a DMM you would never know what kinda power your were getting.Just because the dial was half way doesn't mean power was half way.This is a common mistake made by people.The gain knob is in direct relation to the output voltage of the deck.ANd with most newer decks they putout 4-8v.If you look at the gain knob all they way to the left has a high number and to the right has a low number.The higher the input voltage the less gain you need.

So half way could actually be full or even clipped signal going to your subs.

Tis is why I say its user error.I have seen it many times and done it myself when I was new to car audio.

I turned that shit up as high as I could get it.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[I Like Waffle]

True, ive heard good and bad about setting with a dmm though, however i may try that soon as im sure i can do it. I usually just set it by ear, turn it up to normal listening volume, and turn the gain up till i hear distortion, and back off a bit. Its worked for me in all my previous setups though, i think that MA audio sub was just garbage. It didnt work right from the time i installed it till the time it blew.

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

Possibly.They can be bad from the start.But for the most part the higher end line is pretty decent.I believe Eric Harbor desigened one of ths EHO series?

But I have never heard anything bad about setting gains with DMM's.I don't know who told you that but they were wrong.It is the next best thing to an Oscope which are crazy expensive for the use an average person would give them.

 

[juukno 10+ year member]

is there a good tutorial of how to exactly set gains with a dmm?