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<blockquote data-quote="Jeffdachef" data-source="post: 8395284" data-attributes="member: 650438">vids pleaseand how did it compare to your old kicker?my hdc3 18s are still not fully broken in. Still stiff as hell. Bought it 1 month used and its been a few months already. Its a lot better than the first month i had it though.That probably is a clipping indicator so yeah you can go with that. The amp getting hot could mean that it might be starved of current. Have you done the big 3 yet?Also some car audio common sense lessons1) If you turn it up and iit stops getting louder, you are most likely in clipping territory, instead of the amp, you can just lower one or two or a few notches on your head unit&#039;s sub-level control or even the head unit volume can be used to fine tune. Remember, different songs will have different levels of bass so you dont want to blast a bass heavy song as much as you would do to a old school rock song. Again, If you turn it up and iit stops getting louder, you are most likely in clipping territory.2) Monitor temperatures. If the sub and amp is getting warm/moderately warm, then you are fine. If it gets hot like burning hot to the touch, you gotta go easy on it taking actions explained in <a href="http:////forums/usertag.php?do=list&amp;amp;action=hash&amp;amp;hash=1" target="_blank">#1</a> ^^^3) Monitor system voltage drops at full tilt volume.&nbsp; Take multi-meter and put the prongs on the positive and negative outputs of the amp and see what battery voltage reading you are getting.&nbsp; If its under 12, you might need to ease of the gain until you can perform some electrical upgrades.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeffdachef, post: 8395284, member: 650438"] vids please and how did it compare to your old kicker? my hdc3 18s are still not fully broken in. Still stiff as hell. Bought it 1 month used and its been a few months already. Its a lot better than the first month i had it though. That probably is a clipping indicator so yeah you can go with that. The amp getting hot could mean that it might be starved of current. Have you done the big 3 yet? Also some car audio common sense lessons 1) If you turn it up and iit stops getting louder, you are most likely in clipping territory, instead of the amp, you can just lower one or two or a few notches on your head unit's sub-level control or even the head unit volume can be used to fine tune. Remember, different songs will have different levels of bass so you dont want to blast a bass heavy song as much as you would do to a old school rock song. Again, If you turn it up and iit stops getting louder, you are most likely in clipping territory. 2) Monitor temperatures. If the sub and amp is getting warm/moderately warm, then you are fine. If it gets hot like burning hot to the touch, you gotta go easy on it taking actions explained in [URL="http:////forums/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1"]#1[/URL] ^^^ 3) Monitor system voltage drops at full tilt volume. Take multi-meter and put the prongs on the positive and negative outputs of the amp and see what battery voltage reading you are getting. If its under 12, you might need to ease of the gain until you can perform some electrical upgrades. [/QUOTE]

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