Speakers crackle, too much power?

[enjoi598]

So basically, I installed my 4 Rockford Fosgate PUNCH 6inch speakers into my car.

I have a Pioneer Premeir head unit

.. and i have the ViSoniK sub and amp, so the person who installed my system has alota good stuff, so we took the not so good VisoniK sub and amp out and installed a 800 WATT Audiobahn amplifier ( Audiobahn A1504DP ), and a single 10 inch Auidobahn sub that totally blew my visonik ones away, this one sub was expensive and loud.

So we hooked this up, and we turned the system on, and my speakers have a crackling noise, when we turned it down, it went away a little.

I am thinking that either, the sub and amp is taking too much power and doesnt have enough from the battery and is over powering the speakers.

So what i am going to do is buy the auidobahn sub and amp, but also buy another audiobahn amp for the speakers, and a capaciter, maybe that will work?

I NEED OPIONIONS AND PEOPLE WITH THE SMARTS

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[Doingstuffwell 10+ year member]

do not buy a capacitor. read the STICKY on capacitors in this section.

most likely you have your "bass" setting on the Pioneer turned up too high.

Usually BASS centers around 60-80HZ on the headunit, these are not GOOD frequencies to play through a headunit amp because it will distort and CRACKLE.

turn your **** bass setting down. turn the LOUD function off or any other Bass adding setting.

set your gains properly on the sub amp and make sure everything is wired righjt.

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

So basically, I installed my 4 Rockford Fosgate PUNCH 6inch speakers into my car.

I have a Pioneer Premeir head unit

.. and i have the ViSoniK sub and amp, so the person who installed my system has alota good stuff, so we took the not so good VisoniK sub and amp out and installed a 800 WATT Audiobahn amplifier ( Audiobahn A1504DP ), and a single 10 inch Auidobahn sub that totally blew my visonik ones away, this one sub was expensive and loud.

So we hooked this up, and we turned the system on, and my speakers have a crackling noise, when we turned it down, it went away a little.

I am thinking that either, the sub and amp is taking too much power and doesnt have enough from the battery and is over powering the speakers.

So what i am going to do is buy the auidobahn sub and amp, but also buy another audiobahn amp for the speakers, and a capaciter, maybe that will work?

I NEED OPIONIONS AND PEOPLE WITH THE SMARTS

 

[critical 10+ year member]

make sure your grounds are grounded very very well i had this problem and i realized i hadn't connected the ground for my deck :/

 

[79corona 10+ year member]

There are gnds for power and speakers. How many more are necessary?