Problems with new H/U?

[Kastlez_ 10+ year member]

soo.. I bought and installed an ALPINE 9886 yesterday to upgrade from stock radio.

Everything worked out great except for the fact that i think they're are some filters turned on or something isn't hooked up correctly. Ran the RCA's straight from the back of the H/u to the amp

I thought the extra voltage from the H/u was supposed to increase the voltage to/from the amp on lower volume levels.

I seem to have lost a lot of power from the amplifier... subs are functioning just sounds like they're muffled/low.

Any idea's?

Notes: New H/U = Less output from AMP/SUBS ????

none of the amplifier filters were changed after the install of new headunit

 

Vehicle: Accord

H/U: Alpine 9886

AMP: Saz-1500

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[Kastlez_ 10+ year member]

ttt

 

[BeAlLsTaR13 10+ year member]

no idea but if it dont work out ill trade you for it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

i want one of those so bad //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[blazeplacid 10+ year member]

what headunit did you have before?

Some lower line hu arent as SQ driven as others

Example, an old Pioneer I had was VERY bass heavy

I later bought an Eclipse which seemed to have no bass, but it actually had no added distortion or bass booters.

The 9886 is not made for SPL, its more of an SQ deck

get a lower line Pioneer or Kenwood, those usually have the option for bass boosts and such.

 

[Kastlez_ 10+ year member]

what headunit did you have before?
Some lower line hu arent as SQ driven as others

Example, an old Pioneer I had was VERY bass heavy

I later bought an Eclipse which seemed to have no bass, but it actually had no added distortion or bass booters.

The 9886 is not made for SPL, its more of an SQ deck

get a lower line Pioneer or Kenwood, those usually have the option for bass boosts and such.

Went from stock to Alpine.

What you said about it being more of a SQ makes sense... Anyway to boost the signal to increase bass without clipping it with "Bass Boost"

Maybe line driver or EQ

 

[blazeplacid 10+ year member]

Id get an EQ

Audiocontrol makes really great EQs

 

[Kastlez_ 10+ year member]

Noticed the bottom of the Alpine there were:

3 Tabs

Normal vs EXT AP

Are these supposed to stay on "normal" ???

 

[blazeplacid 10+ year member]

I belive those are there for the imprint stuff alpine uses

 

[cichlid_baby 10+ year member]

Actually.. those are for you to select whether or not you want to use the internal amp or use an external amp. It turns "on" or "off" the RCA's pre-outs.