Left Channel louder than Right Channel?

[ASpec818 10+ year member]

I have some mb quart components hooked up to a Diamond D3400.4 amp. The left side sounds louder than the right side. Anybody know why? I used 2-channel RCA cables hooked up on the 4 channel amp. The balance from my headunit doesn't really work because I assume it's the 2 channel RCA's I'm using, but I do have the balance set to the middle. Is there another setting I play with on the amp to make the right side louder or left side softer? thanks!

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[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

How many speakers are you dealing with? 2 sets of components?

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

if you have time alignment I'd try that first.

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

Use the balance, turn it to the right, see if its louder

 

[BAsK510 10+ year member]

not trying to sound like an arse but is it because ur sitting on the left side?

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

^^^that could be it. but weird thing is that in my system, i had to adjust my balance to the left cause the right side was more dominant.

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

if you are bridging it then make sure you have the gains for each channel set the same.

 

[ASpec818 10+ year member]

I'm using a 4 channel amp bridged to power my front components. The rear speakers are powered off my deck. When I adjust the balance, I'm not really sure what's happening but it doesn't go from right to left and vice versa. both sides still have sounds comin out when the balance is adjusted. How do i set the gains independently for each channel?

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

I'm using a 4 channel amp bridged to power my front components. The rear speakers are powered off my deck. When I adjust the balance, I'm not really sure what's happening but it doesn't go from right to left and vice versa. both sides still have sounds comin out when the balance is adjusted. How do i set the gains independently for each channel?

if you have a 4 channal bridge the only way to make it actaully go leftand right when you adjust the fade is to change the rca's. instead of one set going to the front inputs and one set going to the back inputs. do one rca plug per side. so there'll be the lefts on the front inputs and the rights on the rear inputs (or vise versa depnding on what actally makes it go left and right when you adjust it.

if it's still seemingly louder in one, and im Mean sustantially louder, check ur rca connections, try differant rcas cables, and hope it isnt something inside the amp thats not making a good connection....

if the loudness is just a liiiiil off, thats cause ur not sitting in the middle.....

 

[ASpec818 10+ year member]

ok i just verified that my left channel is definetely louder/being fed more watts. when i turn the system up with only my front component speakers on, the bass from the midrange woofer will start distorting while the right side speaker sounds fine. For a moment I thought my left speaker could be blown so i switched the left to the right and same results- the left side would sound distorted while the right side would sound ok.

Now does anybody know why the left side is being driven harder? I have the 2-channel RCA's connected to the Front- left/right outputs in the amp. The rear outputs are untouched.

 

[acold7dusta 10+ year member]

you're low pass may be too low

or the bass boost is on

or the gain for one channel is too high

 

[asifpalash]

ok i just verified that my left channel is definetely louder/being fed more watts. when i turn the system up with only my front component speakers on, the bass from the midrange woofer will start distorting while the right side speaker sounds fine. For a moment I thought my left speaker could be blown so i switched the left to the right and same results- the left side would sound distorted while the right side would sound ok.
Now does anybody know why the left side is being driven harder? I have the 2-channel RCA's connected to the Front- left/right outputs in the amp. The rear outputs are untouched.

most commonly people mistakes about the phases of each channel (electron paths). man you should check the cabling for + to speakers + and - to -. maybe the other channel cabled OK.

regards

maybe replied too late lol

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Yep, lil late. Im sure he got that problem solved 3 years ago.

But from his description, one side distortion sooner than the other, the problem was clearly a power issue, not a phase or perceived volume issue.

A lot of the recommendations in this thread were pretty pitiful. lol

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Oops, I replied to a locked thread again. lol