Trouble with new subs

[old#7]

I just got 2 10" alpine type-s subs (200 watts rms) and hooked them up to a 125/2 pioneer amp. the subs are barely making any bass and i feel like i'm gonna blow my speakers before i can hear the subs. i've checked all the wiring and connections about 4 times and haven't found any problems. I'm probably going to get a more powerful amp but i thought that i'd get some advice first.

 

[scramblin]

subs

Hey man,
How do you have it hooked up? To the factory Radio? or is it an AFtermarket one? Have you adjusted the gain any on the amp? If not, turn it up until you hear the subs distort...then turn it down just a touch.

Kendal

 

[old#7]

I have an aftermarket deck with a control that controls the amount of power to the subs and have it turned all the way up. I also had a friend of mine hook up his sony amp to try my subs out and we had the same result although it powers his subs just fine.

 

[laynlow]

You amp is probably not the guilty party if your friends behaved the same. Try running a patch cord from your friends head unit to your amp. If all is well, then look up your chain from the amp back to your head unit. A cheepie 10ft pair from RadioCrap will work for this test.

 

[scramblin]

hey

How about this. pull out your headunit and check and make sure that the RCA's are connected to the sub pre-out.. The Pioneer that I got has a front/rear/sub pre-outs. On mine, the front and sub had about 6" of wiring before the connectors but, the rear plugged straight into the back of the CD player. I got that mixed up when i redid all of my stuff and I would turn everything all the way up and I wasnt getting hardly any sound at all from by subs.

Peace
kendal

 

[WoodysX]

I had the same problem. If the subs are wired in parrell it might be the way you wired the 2 subs. If they each have there own set of wire and they meat with a seperte wire that could be the problem.

Combining the 2 +'s and the 2 -'s to 1 + and 1 -. they can loose there input of POWER and loose there output of BASS