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<blockquote data-quote="eharri3" data-source="post: 5485026" data-attributes="member: 591579"><p>To me loudness means enough volume that I am able to clearly perceive the details in the music. For me it's kind of secondary to the real objective.</p><p></p><p>What it sounds to me like you're trying to say is your sub volume is not rising in as linnear of a manner as the volume of your mid/high speakers. The loudness issue with some of your speakers and not others is causing a frequency response problem. It's a level-setting issue. Either your gain is set too conservatively on the sub amp, too aggresively on the mid/high amp, or else everything is set perfectly but you just have a stronger front stage than your sub stage and the 4 channel needs to be attenuated.</p><p></p><p>I have an Alpine 4 volt(supposedly) HU and an Alpine sub amp. The DMM indicates I have to set the gains counterintuitively high on the sub amp for everything to be good to go. I thought I was doing something wrong but it sounded clean. Then I read up and found out some Alpine head units seem to have weaker sub outputs. Alot of people have to really crank the gains to get things loud enough and they think it must mean their amp is underrated but that may not be the case. Make sure the sub amp's gain is set right first, then re-check the 4 channel's gain, then start slowly backing off a tiny bit on the mid/high amp to see if you can get the volume on both to rise at the same rate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eharri3, post: 5485026, member: 591579"] To me loudness means enough volume that I am able to clearly perceive the details in the music. For me it's kind of secondary to the real objective. What it sounds to me like you're trying to say is your sub volume is not rising in as linnear of a manner as the volume of your mid/high speakers. The loudness issue with some of your speakers and not others is causing a frequency response problem. It's a level-setting issue. Either your gain is set too conservatively on the sub amp, too aggresively on the mid/high amp, or else everything is set perfectly but you just have a stronger front stage than your sub stage and the 4 channel needs to be attenuated. I have an Alpine 4 volt(supposedly) HU and an Alpine sub amp. The DMM indicates I have to set the gains counterintuitively high on the sub amp for everything to be good to go. I thought I was doing something wrong but it sounded clean. Then I read up and found out some Alpine head units seem to have weaker sub outputs. Alot of people have to really crank the gains to get things loud enough and they think it must mean their amp is underrated but that may not be the case. Make sure the sub amp's gain is set right first, then re-check the 4 channel's gain, then start slowly backing off a tiny bit on the mid/high amp to see if you can get the volume on both to rise at the same rate. [/QUOTE]
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