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<blockquote data-quote="Jeffdachef" data-source="post: 8601284" data-attributes="member: 650438">Its much more safe than using any measurement tools. clipping is bad but the MAIN enemy of all electronics which causes them to die is HEAT. Clipping just accelerates heat generation.&nbsp; With audio setups, tools just get you to a generic starting point, but fine tuning and knowing your system&#039;s actual limits with EACH AND EVERY SONG you play will be the key factor in keeping your system healthy.The reason why oscopes and DMMs are useless is already explained in my first post because music has different bass in the recording levels.&nbsp; When you use a test tone, its just a set bass level,&nbsp; either you fk yourself over out of output or you can go deep into clipping and not even know when you play a song with stronger basslines.&nbsp; Most of the times people fk themselves over with severely undergaining along with not knowing the correlation between the basslines&nbsp; in the songs and your actual clean power output from your amps.That sub orientation is poor,&nbsp; Move the sub 3-4 inches away from the back hatch/trunk lid and fire it towards the trunk.&nbsp; Sealed boxes need a proper loading wall to get loud bass.The problem with using EQ is, you are introducing a lot of distortion because you are forcing frequencies that are not their in the song to be a lot more present, basically adding bass information to where its not present aka bass boost which is HORRIBLE compared to a proper gain adjustment setting where its just adjusting to the pre-amp levels of the head unit, not introducing distortion and clipping. Gain &amp;gt; EQ/bass boost all day every day.TLDR:&nbsp; flip the box around put it close to the back hatch/trunk lid as possible, turn off all EQ regarding bass and bass boost.&nbsp; Reset your gains like how I originally stated. DONE~~~</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeffdachef, post: 8601284, member: 650438"] Its much more safe than using any measurement tools. clipping is bad but the MAIN enemy of all electronics which causes them to die is HEAT. Clipping just accelerates heat generation. With audio setups, tools just get you to a generic starting point, but fine tuning and knowing your system's actual limits with EACH AND EVERY SONG you play will be the key factor in keeping your system healthy. The reason why oscopes and DMMs are useless is already explained in my first post because music has different bass in the recording levels. When you use a test tone, its just a set bass level, either you fk yourself over out of output or you can go deep into clipping and not even know when you play a song with stronger basslines. Most of the times people fk themselves over with severely undergaining along with not knowing the correlation between the basslines in the songs and your actual clean power output from your amps. That sub orientation is poor, Move the sub 3-4 inches away from the back hatch/trunk lid and fire it towards the trunk. Sealed boxes need a proper loading wall to get loud bass. The problem with using EQ is, you are introducing a lot of distortion because you are forcing frequencies that are not their in the song to be a lot more present, basically adding bass information to where its not present aka bass boost which is HORRIBLE compared to a proper gain adjustment setting where its just adjusting to the pre-amp levels of the head unit, not introducing distortion and clipping. Gain > EQ/bass boost all day every day. TLDR: flip the box around put it close to the back hatch/trunk lid as possible, turn off all EQ regarding bass and bass boost. Reset your gains like how I originally stated. DONE~~~ [/QUOTE]

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