JL Audio Sub Problem

[Pavlik1]

I have two JL Audio 10W1v2-4 (10 inch), and it is being powered by a Total Mobile Auto 500 RMS watt amp. One sub alone puts out 300 watts RMS and 600 watts peak power. I was playing my subs pretty loud and they started to smell like crap, like something burning. I researched what happened and some people are saying I am underpowering my subs. Do you think I need a bigger amp or is a 500 watt RMS amp good enough for these subs? Help me out. Thanks.

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[Phoenix Risen 10+ year member]

never in the history of car audio was a sub damaged due to too little power,

you have to turn your gains down, what your doing is clipping/sending dirty signal.

just a ? what size power wire are you running.

 

[gunz4me2 10+ year member]

I'd be willing to bet you are overdriving your amplifier. Is your enclosure sealed or ported? Are you using bass boost, loudness, maxing bass out on the head unit, etc.?

 

[Pavlik1]

Yea my bass boost is up and I have a ported box. But thats about it.

 

[Phoenix Risen 10+ year member]

turn your bass boost off, it doesnt do what you think it does

also what is your gain set to?

 

[sierrawitdaslap 10+ year member]

Turn teh gainz and teh boost down mane //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[gunz4me2 10+ year member]

If one needs to use a lot of bass boost to reach the levels of output that they think they should attain, something is wrong with the system design. Either the sub/enclosure/vehicle combination is totally wrong or the power is way out of proportion. I tend to design my ported enclosures to give me a little more low end bloat than I need after taking cabin gain into consideration. That way I can either EQ the bloat out or not run the amplifier as hard.

 

[Bassin Buick]

My uncle was stinking his jl w1's to high hell , i found out he cranked the gain and boost on the Thunder 801D i installed , i reset it and no more stink. Turn them down!!!