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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lombardo" data-source="post: 431632" data-attributes="member: 548429">dark, yes you are a bit confused.  There are setting on your subwoofer amplifier.  One of those knobs is called the gain.  The gain instructs your subwoofer amp to be either really sensitive or not to the signal that is coming into it.Like custom said.  Turn that gain all the way down.  Then go to your headunit and turn that all the way up until your component speakers start to distort.  Then turn it down a bit.  Now go to your subwoofer amplifier and turn the gains (with the head unit volume still at that optimum high volume) and turn it up until the sub starts to disort.  Then turn it down.  Now there will be only a small risk of hurting your speakers.  Make sure not to go over that volume on your headunit otherwise you might be having a good little speaker fry in your car.</blockquote>

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