When I play certain songs and music for long periods of time my dust cap get pretty warm, i know you are suppost to smell a glue smell at first but its been about 3 months since ive had my q's and i still smell glue... ive had it oscillioscoped, what else could cause this? the two Q's are on 2 Alpine Pdx 600.1

Anyone Have any ideas as to why this might be? any comments would be truly appreciated

I would get it scoped again. Make sure the gain is set right. Sounds like they are getting pretty hot.

When you had it scoped, did you also have a clamp meter to see how much power the amps were actually producing???

tiny power for those subs, make sure you aren't distorting stuff to make it loud enough for your tastes.

clipping the dog crap out of that set up are we?

Probably still trying to turn the volume up too much to compensate for the lack of power that they need...should have gone with SSD's with those amps...

after you get it scoped again, do NOT increase any setting-

(volume, bass, gain, bass boost, raise LPF, lower SSF)

Remember volume it's set at when scoped for maximum clean output so you do not exceed it.

IF all checks out well, it's possible that the smell you smell may be caused from the smell trapped inside the sub box if it is ported.

thanks for all the help, ill go have them o-scoped again.... and what kind of efficient amp do you think i should get for those 2 for the time being, budget would be around 600-800

Probably still trying to turn the volume up too much to compensate for the lack of power that they need...should have gone with SSD's with those amps...

yea ur 400 watts off the rms for the Q's, that just might be why