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CarAudio.com Newbie
So i recently made a post about what inline fuse i need for my new set up. I got that set up in today and not sure what i really did wrong but i might have an idea and i just want to see what you guys say. I know the basics of car audio but nothing much on the advance stuff. So to begin i have a 06 hyundai sonata with stock electrical. I just purchased a md1200.1 2 ohm that i have my dvc 4 ohm American bass XR 12" hooked up to. My head unit is a cheap ken wood i picked up for like $100 with 2v out. I am running full 4ga OFC for power directly off the batt and 4ga OFC as well for the ground. Also noting i comparing this to a pioneer amp i had hooked up before at 8 ohms which was only putting out maybe 250-300 watts. Ok so i got everything all set up and time to set everything and test it out. I am doing this by ear of course since i dont have any of the tools and this is just for a daily driver. I set the gain rather low at first with bass boost down all the way and lpf/hpf both all the way to the left. I get the gain set to around what i think sounds decent and turn it head unit up from about 60% to 90% and it just isnt that loud at all. the pioneer hit harder. So i turn the gain up more turn the sub level up a bit on the head unit and it starts to hit harder. The problem is when i start to get it to that point where i feel like it would be roughly 900-1000w it stars to clip a lot and the protect like starts to blink. I was pretty certain i would be able to have most my distortion creating setting like on the head unit at 0 have the gain up a decent amount and get this sub really moving without clipping even on a stock electrical system. Only thing i can think of right now is my ground isnt the best for the amp. could that be causing this? or do i just lack the power for the amp with stock eletrical?