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Sub sonic has nothing to do with volume. the gain does that and all songs arent recorded the same. sorry for my poor english let me try and explain it in the best way i can think. i understand what a gain on a amp does and i understand what the ssf does as well. what i'm trying to explain is on some song's i listen to i have to listen to them at a low volume since they beat real hard when i say beat real hard i mean to where my subs's will move like crazy and you can start smelling the coils burn a little or you will hear the sub pop and was not sure if it might have to do with the way my ssf is set to or if this is normal. It could be the SSF if you had it set too low and the song you were playing had a lot of content below your enclosure tuning. But that doesn't sound like the problem as 29hz is perfectly fine for a 34hz tuning, generally a reasonable setting is around 1/2 octave below tuning, which in your case would be ~26hz. It sounds like your problem is either too much power for your enclosure, or improper settings such as gain, bass boost, etc.

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something tells me this wont be the final one.

It's one of those two. Now you just have to narrow it down.

Videos, LOL. I've seen videos of Formula 1 and NHRA Top Fuel funny cars driving on the street. Doesn't mean they make sense on the street.

Bought two used Sundown SA-10 D4s. Clear communication, shipped quick using original packaging. I would do business with Mr. Bojangles again.

It is very difficult to keep an inventory on Icon, Xcon and Zcon because of the time they require in machining alone. Part of what sets them above most. .

Looks like you flipped soft domes upside down crushing the dome. awww, thanks for the concern honey lol j/k, naw its good, I'm very careful with these lol I'm gna sleep with them again tonight I would treat them nice

Looks like things are coming along nicely bro

Thanks man I've always dealt with good people on forums I guess there is always 1 bad apple.

You may have to have an experienced installer check out your work. You are having multiple issues that seem to go beyond your skill level. It would suck the shitter if you burnt your car to the ground.

Worth making a call to Chris (guy who runs db-r). You never know, he might just have it written down.

You were right!

I don't know of any gain that has a setting of "24". The input sensitivity ("gain") is a range of voltages, not a numerical range like a volume setting, and that range is determined by the design of the amplifier. Where the input sensitivity needs set is based on the input voltage of the preamp signal. For example, the range of input sensitivity would be .2V - 8V. The gain would be set somewhere in that range based on the level of the input signal. Anyways, you can set the gain as low as you want. Being too low doesn't hurt anything, you are just not receiving all of the output power capabilities of the amplifier. Getting "close enough" is good enough because under most circumstances you are not going to hear a 25% difference in power (in reality the percentage can be higher, I'm just trying to keep it simple here for you). So if you set the gain too "low" and undershoot power output by 25% you are not going to know because you are not going to hear a difference. As for setting the gain too "high", you are safe for a while. A little clipping isn't going to hurt anything. Clipping is a little worse on speakers than subs because it will probably end up being more audible, but it probably won't hurt anything unless you are already pushing the drivers thermal or mechanical limitations (which is the only time a loudspeaker is damaged). Clipping in and of itself doesn't hurt anything, other than possibly making things sound worse because of the added distortion. A driver, any driver, is only damaged when it's thermal or mechanical limits are exceed. Clipping may be the reason the driver's thermal or mechanical limits are exceeded, as a clipped signal contains more average power over time than a pure sinewave. But it's the increase in power as a result of clipping, not the shape of the waveform or the "clipping" of the signal itself that does the damage. This is why people recommend just setting the gain by ear. Small differences in either direction aren't going to matter. Set the gain a little too low and you won't hear a difference because realistically you need a substantial difference in power to actually hear the difference. Set the gain a little high and the small amount of clipping isn't going to damage anything....with speakers it might sound worse because of the distortion, but generally with subs the clipping won't really be audible. Now obviously you don't want to completely overshoot the gain setting because it is possible to start damaging equipment if you run into heavy clipping and you are exceeding the driver's thermal/mechanical limits. But you need to be really far off and/or running unnecessary bass boost/etc before you reach this territory. If you are absolutely lost, the DMM method is a good place to start and tune the gain from there.

This isn't a WTB section. This is for discussion of subwoofers, not selling and purchasing them.

With that budget two of these http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/store/products/ZED-Audio-Minotaur-Mono-block-amplifier.html if you dont keep the JL's. Much rather have them then any of the korean stuff mentioned here. With their footprint they wont take up to much room.

If you're scared about burning it up, then why not just give it 500W RMS?