Alpine Deck Preout Problem
#1
Hey guys
I currently own an Alpine CDA-7995 MP3/CD player. I bought it used and finally got around to installing it. It's a deck that has no internal amp so i've got my Zapco AG360 connected to my front and rear outputs and my MMATS D200hc connected to the subout. Everytime the i turn the volume up from 0 i get a thump from the sub.Also it seems as if the sub preout isn't pushing 4v. When i hook up the front/rear preout to the sub amp it all works fine but when i use the sub out the sub doesn't push as near as it does when i hook it up to the front/rear output. Any idea's?
I currently own an Alpine CDA-7995 MP3/CD player. I bought it used and finally got around to installing it. It's a deck that has no internal amp so i've got my Zapco AG360 connected to my front and rear outputs and my MMATS D200hc connected to the subout. Everytime the i turn the volume up from 0 i get a thump from the sub.Also it seems as if the sub preout isn't pushing 4v. When i hook up the front/rear preout to the sub amp it all works fine but when i use the sub out the sub doesn't push as near as it does when i hook it up to the front/rear output. Any idea's?
#3
It is because Alpine has lied about their voltage on the sub RCA. The front and rear RCA's are indeed 4V, but the sub is only 2V.
I hooked up an Audiocontrol Matrix to the three sets of preouts on an Alpine 7894 that I had. It has LED's to show what voltage is being output from the Matrix. To get the sub to match the front and rear I had to turn the gain up twice as much.
There have been other discussions about Alpine and their sub out voltages if you care to do a search. The consensus is that the output is indeed very week for the sub channel on most of their decks.
CM.
I hooked up an Audiocontrol Matrix to the three sets of preouts on an Alpine 7894 that I had. It has LED's to show what voltage is being output from the Matrix. To get the sub to match the front and rear I had to turn the gain up twice as much.
There have been other discussions about Alpine and their sub out voltages if you care to do a search. The consensus is that the output is indeed very week for the sub channel on most of their decks.
CM.
#4
thats not what i wanted to hear but i guess your right. Looks like i'm in the market for a line driver or a nice eq. I'll try to ground the rca's to chasis hopefully that will get rid of that thump. Very dissapointed to here this about alpine's preout voltage. I really like the deck. Well at least i'll have a good signal going to the amp!!
#6
Originally posted by Dukk:
Although the difference is certainly unusual, there is nothing really wrong or bad about a 2v output... [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]
That is why amps have a gain...
Although the difference is certainly unusual, there is nothing really wrong or bad about a 2v output... [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]
That is why amps have a gain...
My comment is not meant as a knock specifically against alpine(although I have seen this complaint several times on different forums), but it is meant more as a comment on what consumers should expect in general. This has been discussed at length in many threads on the different forums.
[ October 28, 2003, 06:40 PM: Message edited by: PerryB ]
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