bumpasauras 10+ year member
Always Hurtin Ears!!
Doing an install for a friend of mine, and due to my adamant recommendation he ordered SQ gear.
Consisted of:
2 sets of the sq components and a heap of their qmat.
He had a kicker zx200.4 (I think that's what model it was) which has a 50 watt X 4 rms power rating at 4 ohm. I knew it was under power for the comps but I figgured it would at least give him somthing to listen to while I built his box and waited for the subs and amp, and the ppi 900.4 to come in..
Now keep in mind Im running almost all sq gear and love it, same with my wife's car and most of my friends and family who are into audio stuff, again due to my recommendation. So after i install them I set the gains on the amp with a dd1 triple checked everything and powered everything up keeping the hu volume lvl just above 0. As soon as the music was audible I knew somthing was wrong. 1 of the woofers only made the dreaded "scratchy" sound of a cooked vc. Also the tweeter on the opposite side was dead. I of course checked everything making sure I had the the woofer on the woofer output of the cross over, as well as well as polarity, and checked the amps crossover.. All correct including the rca's.. So I checked the woofer's ohm load with my Fluke and it was all over the place but was around 18-26 ohms the tweeter was at .1 ohms.. I even switched crossovers with the ones that were working and the same issue was present.
What's odd is BOTH sets of comps had faulty speakers/cross overs. My customer contacted sq and the said ship back the faulty set and they would replace them, when he told them both sets had issues they said make up a a complete set by mixing the 2 sets together and then send them back.....
Stuff happens no biggie but my customer is very unhappy because of having to tear apart all his door panels several times over the course of the install instead of 1 time..
Still like sq stuff but having issues with both sets is cause for concern IMHO.. So if you get a set of the current batch of sq comps I would suggest ohm'ing the speakers before you install them.
Consisted of:
2 sets of the sq components and a heap of their qmat.
He had a kicker zx200.4 (I think that's what model it was) which has a 50 watt X 4 rms power rating at 4 ohm. I knew it was under power for the comps but I figgured it would at least give him somthing to listen to while I built his box and waited for the subs and amp, and the ppi 900.4 to come in..
Now keep in mind Im running almost all sq gear and love it, same with my wife's car and most of my friends and family who are into audio stuff, again due to my recommendation. So after i install them I set the gains on the amp with a dd1 triple checked everything and powered everything up keeping the hu volume lvl just above 0. As soon as the music was audible I knew somthing was wrong. 1 of the woofers only made the dreaded "scratchy" sound of a cooked vc. Also the tweeter on the opposite side was dead. I of course checked everything making sure I had the the woofer on the woofer output of the cross over, as well as well as polarity, and checked the amps crossover.. All correct including the rca's.. So I checked the woofer's ohm load with my Fluke and it was all over the place but was around 18-26 ohms the tweeter was at .1 ohms.. I even switched crossovers with the ones that were working and the same issue was present.
What's odd is BOTH sets of comps had faulty speakers/cross overs. My customer contacted sq and the said ship back the faulty set and they would replace them, when he told them both sets had issues they said make up a a complete set by mixing the 2 sets together and then send them back.....
Stuff happens no biggie but my customer is very unhappy because of having to tear apart all his door panels several times over the course of the install instead of 1 time..
Still like sq stuff but having issues with both sets is cause for concern IMHO.. So if you get a set of the current batch of sq comps I would suggest ohm'ing the speakers before you install them.