Its not so much that your box is tuned differently.
That's why I rarely listen to radio. It cuts my output almost in half compared to a phone or any mp3 player. Even pandora is better quality than radio. Youtube it kinda depends on who uploaded it. Store bought CD's are supposed to be the highest quality you can get, and also FLAC files. I guess next best thing is 320kps mp3's and lossless files. Everything just diminishes from there once they get ripped over and over. You can usually tell just by looking at the file size. Nevertheless, I could never get good output from the radio, it just sounds very lacking in quality and output.
Well yea, but I'm saying if you listen to a song on the radio and downloaded that same exact song in high quality through let's say itunes or bought the cd from the store, you would be able to tell a distinct difference would you not? In practically every case, even if I pirated the song, it's always louder than radio side by side. I would usually have to put up my volume a bit more on radio to even get close in output.
you might want to use the source level adjuster to match/ even it out. Radio is probably a couple clicks away from usb on my end so its not too bad, only thing i hate is driving through deadspots or heavy interference spots and you get that occasional static in the song.
I don't know if my headunit has a SLA in it or not, I'll have to check. Yea I guess radio is not too bad.. but I do notice a difference in quality. Yea some stations have that nasty static if you're in a bad spot which is really annoying. The only radio I've been listening to is christmas music lately just because it's that time of the year.. Over here in LA, we have a station called K-Day which plays all the old hip hop classics but they have a very weak signal. Power 106 is pretty wack these days and kiis fm has a good signal but is very repetitive. Plus all the **** commercials.. I just can't take it. I rather just download it myself and pick and choose what song to listen to. Funny thing is I had free sirius xm for 2 years by accident and I used to listen to it every day. It cut off one day randomly maybe because they knew I was stealing their signal. Never signed up for it, never paid anything.. I thought maybe it was a free trial but for 2 years? that's impossible. There was no account before either because I bought it brand new.
Have you bothered to model that woofer's specs in winISD Torres, or BassBox Pro? It's likely if you actually followed the manufacturer's recommendations for box design you could play music.
Because it's a completely different woofer. Frankly I have no idea why anybody would try to put those Zv3's into that size/tuning box and expect anything different than what you describe.
