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<blockquote data-quote="ThxOne" data-source="post: 8668594" data-attributes="member: 675210"><p>I have to chime in here... the 13 band EQ in these eXcelons is kinda weird. I own the KDC-X998 and it sounded like ass. The volume would hit a brick wall at 25ish out of 35 and not get any louder. It was distorting and just ******. The EQ is centered at 0db on each band and like mine, your X500 should be -9 to +9 on each of the 13 EQ bands. What I found out is if you set the EQ anything above the 0db on each band, it IS sending an over-driven signal out to the amps.</p><p></p><p>Do me a favor before you give up and or buy other items... set any and all enhancements in the head unit to off, set all 13 EQ bands to 0db. My volume on my X998 maxes out at 35 and I think yours does too. Set it to 32... "leaves some headroom." Set your amp gain for the mids and highs for that volume with a 1Khz tone. If you have a digital multimeter, you can set the voltage at the speaker out terminals close to a specific wattage. If your speakers are 2ohms then your amp says it can do 160w x 4. If they are 4ohm then it says 100w x 4.</p><p></p><p>They are 2ohm so look for approx. 15.8v at the speaker terminals of the amp. Should be close to 125w to the speakers.</p><p></p><p>When you go back in and start using the Kenwoods EQ, don't go above 0db... keep all bands below or just at the 0db mark and you should be able to crank your eXcelon to max volume and it shouldn't distort and if you haven't ruined your voicecoils before, you shouldn't smell the coils anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThxOne, post: 8668594, member: 675210"] I have to chime in here... the 13 band EQ in these eXcelons is kinda weird. I own the KDC-X998 and it sounded like ass. The volume would hit a brick wall at 25ish out of 35 and not get any louder. It was distorting and just ******. The EQ is centered at 0db on each band and like mine, your X500 should be -9 to +9 on each of the 13 EQ bands. What I found out is if you set the EQ anything above the 0db on each band, it IS sending an over-driven signal out to the amps. Do me a favor before you give up and or buy other items... set any and all enhancements in the head unit to off, set all 13 EQ bands to 0db. My volume on my X998 maxes out at 35 and I think yours does too. Set it to 32... "leaves some headroom." Set your amp gain for the mids and highs for that volume with a 1Khz tone. If you have a digital multimeter, you can set the voltage at the speaker out terminals close to a specific wattage. If your speakers are 2ohms then your amp says it can do 160w x 4. If they are 4ohm then it says 100w x 4. They are 2ohm so look for approx. 15.8v at the speaker terminals of the amp. Should be close to 125w to the speakers. When you go back in and start using the Kenwoods EQ, don't go above 0db... keep all bands below or just at the 0db mark and you should be able to crank your eXcelon to max volume and it shouldn't distort and if you haven't ruined your voicecoils before, you shouldn't smell the coils anymore. [/QUOTE]
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