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<blockquote data-quote="dtavano" data-source="post: 3547731" data-attributes="member: 575039">First of all, I&#039;m sorry about all these idiots that don&#039;t realize what&#039;s going on/is being asked. Clearly the answer to your question is that it is impossible with this head unit and most likely impossible with all head units. If the HEAD UNIT is clipping past a certain volume it has nothing to do with your amp gains. Everything I&#039;ve seen indicates that all head units clip at full volume setting. Also, it doesn&#039;t seem practical to me for the highest volume setting to be the max before your amps can clip. What about older music, like most stuff before the 90&#039;s. The older recordings are recorded at significantly lower volumes, so if you have your gains set at the highest volume level on your head unit you won&#039;t have the headroom on the head unit to play the older recordings at a decent level. Download &quot;bohemian rhapsody&quot; and put your volume on the level your gains are set to and tell me if it&#039;s loud enough: it won&#039;t be.So if you think your unit is clipping past 17 than realistically you should set your gains at volume level 13 or something of that nature. Don&#039;t let people play around with your volume, tell them this and if they start putting it up anyway yell at them. If other people drive your car than simply remove the faceplate, or just tell them not to put the music past volume number x. If you trust them enough to drive your car without you, than you should be able to trust them with your system.A good idea, but even if it doesn&#039;t clip at full volume and you set your gains for the full volume you still don&#039;t have the headroom to play recordings that are recorded at lower reference levels. An example of a more modern song that is recorded below the 0db level is &quot;Young Jeezy&nbsp; - Sole Survivor&quot;(well at least all the mp3s I&#039;ve downloaded of that song are recorded very low.) It&#039;s just not practical to do what you want to do, even if the head unit doesn&#039;t clip at its max volume.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dtavano, post: 3547731, member: 575039"] First of all, I'm sorry about all these idiots that don't realize what's going on/is being asked. Clearly the answer to your question is that it is impossible with this head unit and most likely impossible with all head units. If the HEAD UNIT is clipping past a certain volume it has nothing to do with your amp gains. Everything I've seen indicates that all head units clip at full volume setting. Also, it doesn't seem practical to me for the highest volume setting to be the max before your amps can clip. What about older music, like most stuff before the 90's. The older recordings are recorded at significantly lower volumes, so if you have your gains set at the highest volume level on your head unit you won't have the headroom on the head unit to play the older recordings at a decent level. Download "bohemian rhapsody" and put your volume on the level your gains are set to and tell me if it's loud enough: it won't be. So if you think your unit is clipping past 17 than realistically you should set your gains at volume level 13 or something of that nature. Don't let people play around with your volume, tell them this and if they start putting it up anyway yell at them. If other people drive your car than simply remove the faceplate, or just tell them not to put the music past volume number x. If you trust them enough to drive your car without you, than you should be able to trust them with your system. A good idea, but even if it doesn't clip at full volume and you set your gains for the full volume you still don't have the headroom to play recordings that are recorded at lower reference levels. An example of a more modern song that is recorded below the 0db level is "Young Jeezy - Sole Survivor"(well at least all the mp3s I've downloaded of that song are recorded very low.) It's just not practical to do what you want to do, even if the head unit doesn't clip at its max volume. [/QUOTE]

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