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<blockquote data-quote="HardofWhoring" data-source="post: 8804204" data-attributes="member: 674149"><p>If there's any chance you can return the amp, you should because it's powering the bare minimum those two speakers can handle.</p><p></p><p>I can't think of a single vehicle that doesn't benefit from having the BIG 3 when adding an amp, and most of the time, even without one. Do the BIG 3 so your electrical system isn't struggling from the start of the circuit.</p><p></p><p>That amp has a funky configuration for where the wires go..</p><p>On your amp settings:</p><p>Input level LOW (I highly doubt that's a higher voltage setting, but you could probably check in your owner's manual).</p><p>Verify your RCA are L & R input</p><p>Verify the Wires are plugged in to the right connectors on the amp itself.</p><p>Take the bass knob off the amp, to set your gain.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Your power and ground need to be the same size. Your ground wire, is supposed to finish the circuit by going to the chassis to finish as the ground. You said it's to your seat bolts, but there's a gray area there on how they go to ground. You want the shortest possible ground with the fewest (ideally no) transfers between metals. If you didn't remove the paint on the connection to metal, that is not a good ground. If the seat bolts/brackets aren't making metal to metal contact that can eventually get to the chassis, then you have no ground.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you want the easy answer, those are nice subs, in a good box, and the wrong amp. If you want the EASY answer, and you don't care to learn a lot more because this is all you need... Then what I would do is find a local installer, who will charge you next to nothing to install an amp you buy from them, and get a better amp. If you are cheap like me, you have less than a month until labor day, and a few months until Black Friday. Not to be a jerk, but there sounds like a bunch of red flags so far, and your friend might have done just enough to get you in trouble. You could seriously have a really dangerous ground and might cause some serious damage at worst case scenario. Lets be honest you didn't even check the resistance correctly, and then jumped to returning it, when you didn't test it right. Just sayin.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The problem here is we can't see how you have everything. If you want to figure it out yourself, I would suggest making a quick video of everything, with close ups and details of all the wires, or post pictures and diagrams of how you have it wired. If you returned that amp once already, I would return it again before you install it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I would disagree with that. Any bass boost setting is probably also going to effect all the other speakers. It will just sound like crap overall. He should be getting the amp set right, and then can use the control knob to adjust it's volume. They're subs. Who is setting their subs up to run weak? Setting the bass settings on the head unit, is going to effect everything overall and have more of an impact on making mids and highs sound like garbage then it will to improve subs, unless your head unit has separate controls for a sub, (which this non- factory RCA hookup, probably doesn't).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardofWhoring, post: 8804204, member: 674149"] If there's any chance you can return the amp, you should because it's powering the bare minimum those two speakers can handle. I can't think of a single vehicle that doesn't benefit from having the BIG 3 when adding an amp, and most of the time, even without one. Do the BIG 3 so your electrical system isn't struggling from the start of the circuit. That amp has a funky configuration for where the wires go.. On your amp settings: Input level LOW (I highly doubt that's a higher voltage setting, but you could probably check in your owner's manual). Verify your RCA are L & R input Verify the Wires are plugged in to the right connectors on the amp itself. Take the bass knob off the amp, to set your gain. Your power and ground need to be the same size. Your ground wire, is supposed to finish the circuit by going to the chassis to finish as the ground. You said it's to your seat bolts, but there's a gray area there on how they go to ground. You want the shortest possible ground with the fewest (ideally no) transfers between metals. If you didn't remove the paint on the connection to metal, that is not a good ground. If the seat bolts/brackets aren't making metal to metal contact that can eventually get to the chassis, then you have no ground. If you want the easy answer, those are nice subs, in a good box, and the wrong amp. If you want the EASY answer, and you don't care to learn a lot more because this is all you need... Then what I would do is find a local installer, who will charge you next to nothing to install an amp you buy from them, and get a better amp. If you are cheap like me, you have less than a month until labor day, and a few months until Black Friday. Not to be a jerk, but there sounds like a bunch of red flags so far, and your friend might have done just enough to get you in trouble. You could seriously have a really dangerous ground and might cause some serious damage at worst case scenario. Lets be honest you didn't even check the resistance correctly, and then jumped to returning it, when you didn't test it right. Just sayin. The problem here is we can't see how you have everything. If you want to figure it out yourself, I would suggest making a quick video of everything, with close ups and details of all the wires, or post pictures and diagrams of how you have it wired. If you returned that amp once already, I would return it again before you install it. I would disagree with that. Any bass boost setting is probably also going to effect all the other speakers. It will just sound like crap overall. He should be getting the amp set right, and then can use the control knob to adjust it's volume. They're subs. Who is setting their subs up to run weak? Setting the bass settings on the head unit, is going to effect everything overall and have more of an impact on making mids and highs sound like garbage then it will to improve subs, unless your head unit has separate controls for a sub, (which this non- factory RCA hookup, probably doesn't). [/QUOTE]
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