Problem with brand new XR650's

[joshs98runner 10+ year member]

Ok, my friend just bought a set of JL Audio XR650 components and coax's for his SUV. He had his local shop called Chronic Car Audio install them with some sort of 4 channel amp and he is telling me they sound like sh**. Since I live far away from him now I can't help him too much, he is gonna take it to best buy to see if the shop messed up the install or not. I told him to take it back to the original shop and find out what the hell they did to the setup. Some things I tell him to check are

-How are the crossovers set up

-Are the RCA's run on same side as power wire

-Were the speakers tampered with from Indo Audio, he bought them from Indo and is worried about them being cut and glued wrong like it warns on the JL website

-How is the frequency set on the amp

The things i know least about are crossovers. I am also most concerned about online sellers tampering with the products like that to remove serial numbers, especially since I had my heart set on a set of those XR's and a 8W7 and can't pay full price from the stores for them.

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[jason5703 10+ year member]

I don't know what to say but i'll be monitoring this threa since I'm in the market for some XR's too.

 

[joshs98runner 10+ year member]

Nobody even have any info/experience/opionions on buying JL's from internet retailers???

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

"sound like shit" doesn't tell us much.

What exactly does he mean by "sounds like shit"? Is there a hiss/whine? Distorted midbass? Extremely harsh high frequencies? Poor midrange performance?

Lots of different definitions of "sounds like shit", and lots of different causes that could be related to the different issues.

Need more facts/more specific definition of the problem before we could help much.

Power wire near RCA's won't matter much, //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[joshs98runner 10+ year member]

He says crackles, distortion/popping...sounds like f'ed speakers to me, I'll try to get some more info later.