something smells fishy :(

[IonRL205 10+ year member]

but how do i set my filters? idk if this would have anything to do with it?

People say to set the SSF 5 hz below tuning, although I normally just set mine at 25 hz. LPF I set to about 80 hz.

I really think your problems are coming from the songs you downloaded through youtube.

 

[splwj47 10+ year member]

u said u had ur bass nob at half is that not like turning the gain up to half way? plus youtube songs.

 

[brooklynjoy2008 10+ year member]

So IMO it is a combination of alot of things. You are running your amp to hard, the songs while you were doing this, and my guess is a little from the hu. 31v is 961 rms, your amp is rated 1000 at 16v. Even at 14v you will not get 900+ out of that amp. The music you used was most definitely a cause, and you will not hear clipping in your hu until it is real bad so alot of people set their system with their hu clipping to start.

 

[MisterDeadeye 10+ year member]

You should also take into account box rise. You might have 2+ohm resistance even if you're wired to 1.

 

[Chriszle 10+ year member]

Youtube converted songs are about the worst possible thing to play on a system.

 

[IonRL205 10+ year member]

1000W is a lot of power.... that's about what an element on an electric stove top uses. I had 6KW on a 3" coil sub this winter with "no problem"..... of course that's impedence rising to around 30 ohm and me knowing when to back off on the volume. Clamp a 1500W sine wave at around 55hz to that woofer and let her go for an hour and let me know how it works out for you.

I don't even listen to anything above 40 hz

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

People say to set the SSF 5 hz below tuning, although I normally just set mine at 25 hz. LPF I set to about 80 hz.
I really think your problems are coming from the songs you downloaded through youtube.

I don't even listen to anything above 40 hz

OK, so if you're 3db down point is 25hz you're probably not seeing a full signal anywhere from 30-40hz. Now over a 10hz bandwidth you can play an amp rated to do 1500W into a single sub without problems. I can believe that, but it doesn't tell the whole story about why the sub would probably never melt down under those conditions.

 

[Mr.meyhem 10+ year member]

u said u had ur bass nob at half is that not like turning the gain up to half way? plus youtube songs.

when i set my gains i had my bass knob all the way up.

 

[Mr.meyhem 10+ year member]

You should also take into account box rise. You might have 2+ohm resistance even if you're wired to 1.

idk how to calculate this.. and i will do my llp and ssf as recommended. so what should i set gains to with box rise or w/e it is?

 

[subzero 5,000+ posts]

fishey smells something

 

[Mr.meyhem 10+ year member]

fishey smells something

???? okay then

 

[pro-rabbit 5,000+ posts]

Exactly. hispls is saying that the Obsidian has a 2.5"coil.

I run more then 1k to each of my Obsidian subs, and they go through more torture in one show then most do in a year.

 

[Full Tilt 10+ year member]

Still not sure what this "dirty" power is that everyone is talking about that creates more heat than regular power???

As far as my understanding goes, a 'clean' signal is an unclipped, non-distorted signal going to the subwoofer/speaker. In terms of 'dirty', which is the opposite of 'clean', I'd assume a 'dirty' signal would be one that is clipped and/or distorted, which could potentially be hurting his sub.

 

[ten_ton_bass 10+ year member]

Look into torrents for getting almost any music in great quality. Most songs are at least in 320k mp3.

Some are in .FLAC that can be converted to .wav for true CD quality songs. Big file sizes yes but so so so worth the clean clear sound that is put out.

I dont get why people put all this money into systems to play complete **** quality sounds from them.

Bittorrent.net to install the client

Torrent Search Engine to search for files

You have to load the files into the client to download them but you will be AMAZED at the amount of content on there. Full albums of almost any kind of music and you can pick and choose which tracks to d/l from the album in the client.

 

[matt_bennett05 10+ year member]

Skar VVX subs smell like a swimming pool when they get hot //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

TWO Xplod 12"s on 2000 rms smell like burning dog schit. LITERALLY. Most stinking azs sub evar smelled. Worse than a kicker fo sho.