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<blockquote data-quote="Zavenoa" data-source="post: 8101738" data-attributes="member: 654283"><p>So I'm pretty sure it was the amp, I'm not gonna blame AudioPipe seeing as I cross wired the ground and power TWICE //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/suicide.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif and easily could have damaged it, but I certainly didn't replace it with another AudioPipe amp either. I went with the Pioneer GM-D9601 which seems to be working great.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I took your advice here as well and chopped off the terminals and was able to EASILY fit 4 gauge wiring into the GM-D9601, which had larger inputs than the AudioPipe (was nice). I tossed the terminals I was using for the subs as well and just cut down the wire I used for those so it fit.</p><p></p><p>I've still got 2 primary things to fix. One is the rattle. The whole car needs sound deadener, which I think will be my next project. I have 2 prefab boxes (I know, they are junk) but I didn't want to invest the time learning how to build them yet and I wanted to find out how big of a difference there was between a sealed and a ported box. I reinforced my ported box with a thick layer on silicone and added a bunch of polyfill to it, and it sounds much better. The sealed box seems to bottom out on the lows (kind of expected) and uses far more power (also as expected) so right now I'm partial to the ported box, even though it takes up double the trunk space.</p><p></p><p>I'm gonna run it by a custom shop near by to see if they can give me a quote on dynamating the worst spots for now. I think my wife is near her limit on the amount of time I've spent on this, and the big rattles really sound like crap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zavenoa, post: 8101738, member: 654283"] So I'm pretty sure it was the amp, I'm not gonna blame AudioPipe seeing as I cross wired the ground and power TWICE [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/suicide.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif[/IMG] and easily could have damaged it, but I certainly didn't replace it with another AudioPipe amp either. I went with the Pioneer GM-D9601 which seems to be working great. I took your advice here as well and chopped off the terminals and was able to EASILY fit 4 gauge wiring into the GM-D9601, which had larger inputs than the AudioPipe (was nice). I tossed the terminals I was using for the subs as well and just cut down the wire I used for those so it fit. I've still got 2 primary things to fix. One is the rattle. The whole car needs sound deadener, which I think will be my next project. I have 2 prefab boxes (I know, they are junk) but I didn't want to invest the time learning how to build them yet and I wanted to find out how big of a difference there was between a sealed and a ported box. I reinforced my ported box with a thick layer on silicone and added a bunch of polyfill to it, and it sounds much better. The sealed box seems to bottom out on the lows (kind of expected) and uses far more power (also as expected) so right now I'm partial to the ported box, even though it takes up double the trunk space. I'm gonna run it by a custom shop near by to see if they can give me a quote on dynamating the worst spots for now. I think my wife is near her limit on the amount of time I've spent on this, and the big rattles really sound like crap. [/QUOTE]
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