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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 01:20 PM
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okay well I just tried turning my speakers up with my out of my car/windows down to see if I could notice any extra distortion.

And just a little above where its pretty decently loud (just where I like it) my speakers started to pop really loud. Almost like they were completely blown out, then I turned it back down and they sound fine.

I have never really heard a speaker before where it goes straight from no distortion to holy crap did I screw up my speakers??? could this be the cone of the speaker hitting the door panel?
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 03:01 PM
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Sounds to my like your amp is clipping
I was going to suggest you try a slightly larger amp or possibly
even a better amp but on pure reason, if you can already obtain a volumn that is too loud before the popping starts, you probably don't need anymore than you already have.
Be careful and avoid the upper limits on the volumn knob.
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 05:29 PM
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well It seems extremely loud in my garage, yet when I take it on the freeway, I cant even make out words (with top up). Is it possible i caused damage to my speakers/amp by turning it up loud and hearing that pop? The pop was very loud it supprised me. sounded like they already blew, yet now they sound 100% fine over all volume levels.

Anyway Maybe im just thinking my speakers will get louder than what is actually possible for them. maybe im expecting a little too much.
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 08:20 PM
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Well can only guess that the amp overheated and tripped some type of protection circuit then reset after it cooled down. Is your amp rated 110 peak or continous? If peak, the actual power to each speaker could be much less.
Your solution is to either switch to more effecient speakers or switch to a more powerful amp.
Good speakers are notorious for demands of huge amounts of power and can cuase clipping in many amps if not up to the task.
If you'd rather not make one of these switches and feel you have enough volumn at somewhere around mid-dial, keep what you currently have and be careful with the volumn knob.
If it were me, somewhere down the line I'd upgrade the amplifier.
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by JackS,Jun 17 2007, 08:20 PM
Well can only guess that the amp overheated and tripped some type of protection circuit then reset after it cooled down. Is your amp rated 110 peak or continous? If peak, the actual power to each speaker could be much less.
Your solution is to either switch to more effecient speakers or switch to a more powerful amp.
Good speakers are notorious for demands of huge amounts of power and can cuase clipping in many amps if not up to the task.
If you'd rather not make one of these switches and feel you have enough volumn at somewhere around mid-dial, keep what you currently have and be careful with the volumn knob.
If it were me, somewhere down the line I'd upgrade the amplifier.
Hmm that could be possible. It was very very hot here in cali. Anyway yeah I believe its rated 50 RMS continous x 4, and I have it bridged and I heard somewhere a bridged connection can sometimes yield much more than a normal connection. Anyway so roughly about 100rms amp to 110rms (330 max) speakers.

Yet the only time I get distortion is in bass, nothing else really. Maybe I should turn down the bass, since components have a hard time. Yet I dont plan on getting any type of subwoofer.
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Old Jun 18, 2007 | 06:18 AM
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to help with the highway sound, you might be getting a lot of wind turbulence.
have you considered adding this? or even better, this one?
along with rolling up your windows, these will lessen the load on your amp.
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Old Jun 18, 2007 | 07:51 AM
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The heat I'm reffering to is the demand placed on the amp that was too much for your current speakers.
I'm fairly positive now that a larger more powerful amplifier really is needed.
Go to a mobile audio shop and explain your problem and maybe you can get some free advise or even better , let them sort this out for you.
It wuld be a one time expense and should be reasonable. Good luck
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Old Jun 18, 2007 | 09:26 AM
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I'm not sure you have your amp set up correctly. For instance, if your gain
is set too low, you may push your headunit preamp into clipping before you're
close to the amp producing max power. In addition, if you want more bass,
you probably shouldn't have your amp's high-pass (or low pass for that
matter) filter on if you don't have a sub, and certainly not set as high as
120 hz, maybe 40-50hz. You can see what you're cutting out with your filter
set there, here:
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=304864
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Old Jun 18, 2007 | 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by oth,Jun 18 2007, 09:26 AM
I'm not sure you have your amp set up correctly. For instance, if your gain
is set too low, you may push your headunit preamp into clipping before you're
close to the amp producing max power. In addition, if you want more bass,
you probably shouldn't have your amp's high-pass (or low pass for that
matter) filter on if you don't have a sub, and certainly not set as high as
120 hz, maybe 40-50hz. You can see what you're cutting out with your filter
set there, here:
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=304864
Hmm I see. Good information. Ill give that a shot. so setting my hz on my amp to 120 im cutting off some sound I Could be hearing right?
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Old Jun 18, 2007 | 11:49 AM
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If you have component speakers and the amp has the ability to send a full range signal then send the full range to your speakers. The crossover in your system should handle the distribution of low and high frequenciesl i.e- holding the lows in the woofer and sending the highs to the tweeter.
I think oth is probably right. Shut off both low and high pass filters since these will be handled by the crossovers that came with your speakers.
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