Help my sub won't hit high notes

[Dallis 10+ year member]

I have a kicker 10" cvr and it's having trouble playing higher frequenzys it's hooked up to a kenwood 1000 watt amp but since it is a 10" it is running at 4 ohms so it's only receiving around half powered would this be the cause or is it something else?

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[AwesomeStranger 10+ year member]

How do you have your gains set? Is that Kenwood amp rated @ 1 ohm?

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

turn up the lpf until it's where you want it wattage has nothing to do with the tones it's able to play.

 

[Dallis 10+ year member]

The lpf is set all the way to 200 hertz and the amp is rated at 2ohms it plays good until like 90 hertz then it gets really quiet

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

the lp shouldn't any higher than 80-100.might be ur box

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

The lpf is set all the way to 200 hertz and the amp is rated at 2ohms it plays good until like 90 hertz then it gets really quiet

wow I figured you might have been at 30-35hz but your at 200hz, check your HU settings maybe theres an internal filter and it's set too low?

 

[The_Grimy_One 10+ year member]

Yea, set it to about 80. Thats pretty high by itself. Your sub should not need to play much higher than that.

 

[splwj47 10+ year member]

what a dumba$$.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

The lpf is set all the way to 200 hertz and the amp is rated at 2ohms it plays good until like 90 hertz then it gets really quiet

Your sub isn't really supposed to play 90 hz.

 

---------- Post added at 09:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:35 PM ----------

 

I mean that like, your sub shouldn't play really above 80, personally I believe about 60 hz.

 

[Dallis 10+ year member]

Would a smaller box work

 

---------- Post added at 09:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:39 PM ----------

 

The head units lpf for the sub is set to through

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

I just realized your saying your playing fine up to 90hz most are set around 60hz and roll off your mids take over from 70hz-80hz sometimes higher if your running a ton of power, your trying to force the sub to play notes it's not designed to replicate.

 

[Dallis 10+ year member]

It's rated to 500 hertz

 

[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

What front speakers do you have?

Those should be playing that 90hz, not the sub.

 

[Dallis 10+ year member]

They are kenwood three ways

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

thats got to sound terrible set that high? I can't stand anything past about 50hz.