Not happy with Dayton 120

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

After reading about many people on here that were very pleased with the output of this subwoofer i decided to go ahead and get one. It got here, and to be honest i'm not happy with what it can do. At high volumes the gains have to be down extremely low so that it does not distort and rap songs with low bass lines make it sound like its bottoming out...

maybe im doing something wrong?

can someone throw me a bone on this one?

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[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

After reading about many people on here that were very pleased with the output of this subwoofer i decided to go ahead and get one. It got here, and to be honest i'm not happy with what it can do. At high volumes the gains have to be down extremely low so that it does not distort and rap songs with low bass lines make it sound like its bottoming out...
maybe im doing something wrong?

can someone throw me a bone on this one?

Maybe its your sub? I have the Dayton 100 on my TandBand 8 and this thing wang chungs at low or high volumes. I've had neighbors complain next door cause they could hear/feel it...

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

how could i go about finding out if its a bad sub?, cause really at high volumes it sounds terrible...is there any way it could be my receiver, or laptop, or what im using for input?

or my wiring?>

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

or maybe how its placed in the room...or the size of the room?

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

where do you have your gains/lowpass at?

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

To be honest, I dont know. It could simply be that its just a dirty signal. I know that if I crank it on some bad MP3 rips that it sounds like *** but off the radio or an actual cd is brilliant...

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

where do you have your gains/lowpass at?

My gain is probably only a 1/3 the way up and my low pass is at 80hz...

 

[expo5.0 10+ year member]

signal

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

Sorry for the triple post but...

Are you using an RCA-out from your receiver? Try using the line-outs on the sub to see if it makes a difference....

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

i have sub going to Receiver via RCA's in the low level input on the sub, and the subwoofer preout on the receiver...its connected to my laptop via RCA to headphone jack and then i use the CD option on the receiver. Sorry if this doesn't make sense but...any help is appreciated.

what do you mean by signal?

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

i have sub going to Receiver via RCA's in the low level input on the sub, and the subwoofer preout on the receiver...its connected to my laptop via RCA to headphone jack and then i use the CD option on the receiver. Sorry if this doesn't make sense but...any help is appreciated.
what do you mean by signal?

It does, Its basically my setup. 3.5m to RCA ->Receiver's AUX in but try disconnecting the sub's RCA and try using the high-level inputs...its worth a shot...

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

what do you mean try using high level inputs...how would i do that?...the sub is connected via RCA...how would i do that?>

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

Disconnect the rca cable from the sub and receiver. Run + & - speaker wire from your Front-Left/Right jack on the receiver to the Front-Left/Right HL Input on the receiver. Then from the HL ouput, run speaker wire to their corresponding speakers. Then, turn the sub-out off...

 

[JohnnyChuttz 10+ year member]

With my old IBM laptop, I could not get a good signal out of the headphone jack.

Try a different source. Get a portabe cd player and test it out.

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

tried it...still sounds bad...distorts a high volumes...sounds like its bottoming out and cant even come close to handling low htz notes with gains set moderately.