Subs not hitting hard.

[JJTitus 10+ year member]

Got a new h/u and the subs don't hit near as hard as the old one. i put the sub level all the way up and it doesnt barely hit. im thinking 1/2 of my rca is bad cause the sub puts out, just not full blast... anything else i should check before i re-run an rca?

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[bk12321 10+ year member]

did u change anything beside the HU (like settings), and what is the new / old one

 

[JJTitus 10+ year member]

no settings changed at all... old one is a panasonic, new one cda-9835

 

[bk12321 10+ year member]

does it have a bass engine? my alpine hits sooo soft until i turn it to bass engine 3 and it BOOMS. there are 3 settings for the BBE (bass engine), which is different from the actual bass setting.

 

[dkmesa 10+ year member]

thats weird. Are you familiar with the HU? It took me a while to figure out all the settings on my sister's CDA-9833...

Should be 4V preouts so that wouldn't have anything to do with it

 

[JJTitus 10+ year member]

ive gone through all the settings... the 9835 doesn't have BBE. they added that in 2006. i think im gunna test another RCA ran down the center of my car before i rerun one along the side to make sure the RCA is what it is. i just wanted to ask if anyone might have used this h/u and knew something i didn't. i'll check it out tomorrow some more... thx guys.

 

[bk12321 10+ year member]

» Bass Engine Pro (5-band parametric EQ, 6-channel digital time correction, 6-position crossover with variable slope, plus subwoofer phase and level controls

taken from ebay, did u check that

 

[crow 10+ year member]

Have you reset the gains on the amplifier to match the output of the new head unit?

 

[.::DuD3::. 10+ year member]

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[pwuthedon 10+ year member]

or turn it up to 35

 

[dB Dom 10+ year member]

Max on the alpine should be about 26-28 volume wise. Then it really starts distorting.

And make sure your Sub control volume is all the way up to 15 so you get full preout voltage. Then just adjust the gain on the amp to match.

 

[JJTitus 10+ year member]

thanks guys... i found out that my RCA was only playing through one of the hookups... changed the RCA out and it started bumping...