Crackle After 6 Disc

[JMT1SOMR]

I had to opt for the Fm Modulated 6- Disc for my 95 X. It has the rear stereo controls and I didnt want to disable them. After a week of having it installed, sometimes the sound is just down right sh*tty. I thought i had blown some speakers and i had planned on replacibng them anyway so I bought some Audiobahn 6x8 plates. They sound good but come to find out, they crackle and sound distored as well. And its not one, but all 4. It only seems to be that way sometimes and since they're running of the factory HU i dont know what to think. Is it possible that its the 6 disc or the HU or maybe some wiring? I just dont know. Ive talked to some folks with the same changer and theres sounds great in their cars... and advice or ideas would be greatly, GREATLY appreciated. Thanks...

 

[YetiX]

Have you ruled out interference with the FM modulator? Does the crackling sound like when you start to lose a radio signal or is it different?

 

[JMT1SOMR]

its just like some sorta of distorion... the radio sounds perfect when i switch to FM and it only seems to do it sometimes.... i know it isnt the speakers but it sounds pretty horrible... its mainly the bass... the tweets in the plates are pretty good...

 

[99explorer5.0]

I am not trying to make you look like an idiot but this happend to me. Did you put your radio on the correct station? Because you can adjust what station it sends the signal out on and you could possible have it on the wrong one. Or your antenna connection could have gotton loose.

 

[jimbo74]

first mistake was the fm modulator disc player.... if you think about it, a radio station is capable of putting out a million watts of power.... legally all a civilian can put out w/o special licensing is 4 watts or under..... all that distortion is bandwidth hiss...it will continue to happen no matter what.....

 

[JMT1SOMR]

everythings fine... on the right station and everything... the modulator is *supposed* to block out all the other stations... so i was told and when i have it on the station and the changer is off i hear static... when i turn the changer on, before it loads the cd there isn nothing but silence... i know the fm modulated might have been a bad idea but i was running out of ideas... besides... it was crystal clear for like a week.... ill go check it one more time

 

[jimbo74]

Originally posted by JMT1SOMR
when i have it on the station and the changer is off i hear static

uh, duh, when the changer is off, the radio trys to recieve a signal with nothing but noise..... thus your noise problem then....

 

[JMT1SOMR]

u didnt read all of it... when i turn the changer on... the static dissapears... and just sounds like silence

 

[jimbo74]

i did read that.... that is good...that is normal....

 

[JMT1SOMR]

then the static wouldnt be the interference...

 

[jimbo74]

wrong, the static is no signal at all...... when turned on there is silence, meaning that the signal is clear.... just the way it should be... ii assume you are using an fm # of 87-90....these are very weak to begin with and almost sound like an am station

 

[JMT1SOMR]

its not static interference... i just unplugged the original antenna and left the modulator in... it still sounds somewhat crappy... i dont get it!!!!!!!1 ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hrm...

 

[JMT1SOMR]

Ok... I got it fixed... for some reason the knob that adjusts how loud the signal coming from the changer is was all the way up... thus causing the static... i turned it all the way down and it sounds terrific... excet for the fact that its not very loud... now i need to get that amp

 

[Mike 92 XLT]

That knob sounds like a gain. With it all the way down now, you won't be getting much of a signal from the modulator and that's why it isn't very loud now. Start adjusting it upward until you get a normal volume level without static. Somewhere around the middle of its travel should be about right.

peace

Mike