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phat car = common ground
ok, that many fuses is overkill, but helps trouble shooting..
Ok, so I picked up a 400w Jensen 4 channel amp at Best Buy last night. It happened to be $80 instead of the normal $199. I hooked it up to my system and I could finally hear the music coming from my system. With all the knobs on the amp turned to minimum, I started raising the volume in my software. When it got to about 70 - 80 db (rough estimate), the amp started beeping and the lights on it dimmed in and out. I'm guessing that it's a power problem, but since I have zero experience with amps, I wanted to ask you guys. Should I run a seperate 10 gauge wire from the battery to the amp?
I will setup my system kinda like this:
phat car = common ground
ok, that many fuses is overkill, but helps trouble shooting..
yeah i told you... AVOID JENSEN AND JVC... jesus... if you dont want to listen, how will you ever learn anything?
You said that you were turning up the volume with software. My guess is that you were feeding the amp with too much power in the LINE level inputs. Heres the solution, set your software volume in winamp to about 2/3 max. Set the main volume to about 1/3 to 1/2. THEN adjust your amp gains (shuold say level or something along those lines) until the speakers start to distort. Then turn the gain level down a few notches. This way your computer is not feeding the amp more power than it can handel on the imputs.
Then again, how exactly are you powering this thing? What are you using for speakers? Are you using the POWERED output on your sound card?
The above was just a guess as to what the problem was. A little more info would be helpfull.
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no, you want winamp turned up ALL the way... it will give you a cleaner signal.
here are your problems:
1) Jensen
2) you need a direct fused line from the battery... at least 8 guage
3) you need to quit being a cheap skate
First of all, Alives, STFU. Your opinion is no longer requested. You have my sincerest apologies that Jensen amps trouble you so. As I said in the other thread, I just needed a cheap way to amplify the sound coming from the soundcard. I'm not about to spend $200+ on an amp to power my stock speakers. Maybe if I had better speakers or actually gave a flying ****, I'd spend more.
Prehaps therapy will help your need to crap on other people. Take your inferiority complex and bad attitude somewhere else.
As for the amp, I fixed the problem. I ran 10 gauge wire from the battery and it doesn't dim anymore. It sounds great, and had my stock speakers rockin'.
sounds like my suggestions helped
good to hear you fixed it.... I didnt realise that thick power wire would be THAT important.... now I know...Originally posted by Gutter
As for the amp, I fixed the problem. I ran 10 gauge wire from the battery and it doesn't dim anymore. It sounds great, and had my stock speakers rockin'.
Project - GAME OVER :(
low voltage high amperage... thats why they sell 4 guage and 0 guage...stuff is ridiculously thick
depending on your sound card. my sound card starts to clip the output at 100%, i find that it stays clear up to about 80%Originally posted by Alives
no, you want winamp turned up ALL the way... it will give you a cleaner signal.
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