I think what it comes down to is these dmm gain settings are intended to provide a relatively flat frequency response in the system. If you've come into the hobby cranking up bass settings on everything you've ever listened to - you've trained yourself to expect boom at all volumes of all music -- that's not how music is supposed to sound -- so setting it up right doesn't sound "right" to you.
I never thought about this, but you are right. I am used to hard slamming bass when playing my music whether its from a stereo setup, a boom box, a surround sound system, and so on. The flat frequency does not actually sound good to me. Which is why I asked about bass boost.
I also was unaware the bass boost only adjusts the 40hz range bass. Its strange, because without bass boost on the rear view mirror doesn't shake, which I guess isn't a big deal. Its just what I'm normally used to when listening to car audio.
let me guess. You used a 0 db test tone to set the gains LOL thats completely wrong. Fk the multi-meter, Music is too dynamic to rely on that method.
Yep i first used a 40hz 0 db test tone, then I found out when using a tone on a subwoofer amp it should be a 60hz test tone. I will set it up properly, I did it with the test tone method, because
crutchfield recommended doing it this way. Then I did the multimeter method to see how much of a difference it was.
I will re-do the gain and turn the bass boost off on the amp, the lpf is set at 200hz, the isf is set at 25hz. Since the kicker comp vt's have a range of 25hz-350hz. I'm assuming the LPF needs to be set as high as possible to use the range of the sub.
On the pioneer X6800BT how do you turn off the LPF Filter, because I have heard having both the lpf and the headunit lpf on at the same time causes phase distortion within the system. Alot of stuff I have read recommends setting it on the amp, but turning it off on the headunit.