No sound coming from subwoofers?

[sr20synergy 10+ year member]

My friend, who has been installing car audio and alarms for years now, ATTEMPTED to install my subwoofers, amp, and high to low converter today.

We hooked up everything correctly EXCEPT for the possibility that we screwed up on the high low converter. (I am 99.9% sure all the wiring is correct except the high low). We tapped the high low converter into my rear left speaker, and connected it to the amp, but we are not getting any sound coming out of the subwoofers at all. Is it possible that we switched the wires accidently? What happens if i try to switch it? There is power to the amp, and when I look very closely, it seems as if the subwoofers ARE moving, but very lightly (about 1mm of movement!)

What can the problem be? I drive a 2005 Honda Accord EX-V6 Coupe, running 2 10" Audiobahn subwoofers and a PPI 440 watt 5-channel aplifier.

I really don't know a single thing about car audio, which lead me to register and create a thread, hopefully somebody can help me out. I'd really like to get this sound system working. I will take pictures and edit this in a few minutes.

These are my two 10" Audiobahns.

Here are the settings for my amp.

Here is my piece of crap high to low converter

The wires go to here

And here are my wires that are connected to my rear left speaker, which is connected to the high to low converter

Yeah, it's a big mess.

Click to read more...

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

You are using a 5 channel amplifier for two subs? Not a good choice but allright....

Seems like you might have some wires crosses, if the subs are in fact moving, but not much, then they might indeed be out of phase. Also, did you mess with the gain and low pass filter on the amp? Something could be set too high/low.. Try messing around with your wiring a bit, and amp settings. If nothing works still, get rid of that high/low converter and see if that solves anything. If not then contact the manufacturer of the amp. Are you sure the amp is properly bridged for two subwoofers, since it is 5 channels?

Any chance of pics of this installation, close ups of you amp settgins and shit?

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

could it be faded to the front, some times its the littlest things we over look...

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

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[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

no.

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

I'm sensing some hostility between us man...

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

none that i know of...

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

none that i know of...

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[RandyJ 10+ year member]

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wtf?

 

[sr20synergy 10+ year member]

What's the worst that will happen if I remove the high low converter?

And I am 100% sure that the amp is properly set to power 2 subwoofers, because the subs and amp were in my friend's 280ZX (who I bought it off of) and it was working.

Also, I asked some guy from the stereo department at Good Guys, and was told that I am supposed to hook up both rear speakers to the amp, and not just one. Is this true?

 

[blackgeltabs 5,000+ posts]

Can you take a pictuee of the amp levels and post it?

 

[sr20synergy 10+ year member]

Pictures are up!

 

[sr20synergy 10+ year member]

Actually, I'm gonna go borrow my brother's sub and amp and stick it in my car. Let's see if that works.

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

redo your wiring from the speaker leads

if one os not perfect it can mess up everything,them blue splicers ****

*** and are also too big for speaker leads

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

can i see 'speaker level inputs' on that amp?? dump the line level converter!