I'm pretty new to system building, and I just put my first subs in. I got a couple of MB Quart PWD 254 10" subs http://www.woofersetc.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&Product_ID=3878, but they are older than the ones in the link.
I built a sealed box to spec, and matched it up with a MBQ RAA1000watt amp. I'm loving the sound quallity from these subs everything sounds great but I'm having a problem with the output, probably just from me being ignorant.
I can get some decently loud bass, but it is so easy to overdrive them into making this loud crackling noise. A good example of a song it'll do it on is Snow by Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Late Night Tip by Three Six Mafia.
My question is, do I just have these tuned up wrong? Is there anything I could do like raise the crossover point to keep them from distorting or am I just trying to get too much out of the subs? I know they are in a sealed box which doesn't help with output, but the loud crackling farting sound thing comes on so suddenly it's always kind of startling. I know this can't be good from the subs and I'm probably trying to get too much output from them, but I didn't expect the subs to so suddenly go from sounding perfectly fine to distorting horribly at a certain volume on a certain song.
I think a couple of IDMAX10s would solve my output problem and still give me good SQ, but I spent all that time building the box I don't wanna go and change now.
Any suggestions or comments?
I built a sealed box to spec, and matched it up with a MBQ RAA1000watt amp. I'm loving the sound quallity from these subs everything sounds great but I'm having a problem with the output, probably just from me being ignorant.
I can get some decently loud bass, but it is so easy to overdrive them into making this loud crackling noise. A good example of a song it'll do it on is Snow by Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Late Night Tip by Three Six Mafia.
My question is, do I just have these tuned up wrong? Is there anything I could do like raise the crossover point to keep them from distorting or am I just trying to get too much out of the subs? I know they are in a sealed box which doesn't help with output, but the loud crackling farting sound thing comes on so suddenly it's always kind of startling. I know this can't be good from the subs and I'm probably trying to get too much output from them, but I didn't expect the subs to so suddenly go from sounding perfectly fine to distorting horribly at a certain volume on a certain song.
I think a couple of IDMAX10s would solve my output problem and still give me good SQ, but I spent all that time building the box I don't wanna go and change now.
Any suggestions or comments?
