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<blockquote data-quote="bbeljefe" data-source="post: 8166943" data-attributes="member: 655960">&quot;I normally use that more than the gain.&quot;↑ This. Gain isn&#039;t something you use, it&#039;s something you set and forget. If the gain is set properly and the system isn&#039;t loud enough, the answer isn&#039;t more gain... it&#039;s more amp or more speaker. If you have your gain set just slightly above its proper setting for your source, you&#039;ll be clipping the speaker(s) and eventually, you will cook a coil or three... especially when you&#039;re running high power.Go ahead and check the power and ground connections and wiring but also, get a meter and check the coils on your woofers. Hook them up one at a time and read them... then move the cone in and out and see if the meter shorts to zero or goes to extremely high resistance.If you read excessively high resistance consistently, you&#039;ve clipped that coil into damage. Or, if you have a 4Ω coil that won&#039;t read above 1 or 2Ω... clipped to death again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bbeljefe, post: 8166943, member: 655960"] [I]"I normally use that more than the gain."[/I] ↑ This. Gain isn't something you use, it's something you set and forget. If the gain is set properly and the system isn't loud enough, the answer isn't more gain... it's more amp or more speaker. If you have your gain set just slightly above its proper setting for your source, you'll be clipping the speaker(s) and eventually, you will cook a coil or three... especially when you're running high power. Go ahead and check the power and ground connections and wiring but also, get a meter and check the coils on your woofers. Hook them up one at a time and read them... then move the cone in and out and see if the meter shorts to zero or goes to extremely high resistance. If you read excessively high resistance consistently, you've clipped that coil into damage. Or, if you have a 4Ω coil that won't read above 1 or 2Ω... clipped to death again. [/QUOTE]

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