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Old 09-19-2010, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by avidedtr
PM Fozz, he'll have the answer to the type you need.

btw www.solen.ca is out of quebec. Save yourself some coin.

alright thanks alot for your input.
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Old 09-20-2010, 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by avidedtr
the Fi Q is a very very good sub....needs a small box to. I found 1.5ci.ft to be too big for it.
sorry meant to say wrong with the amp, but you guys seem to have a handle on things so I'll stop with my nonsense.

surprising to hear that 1.5 cubes is too big, but the only time I heard one was in a prefab bassworx box.
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Old 09-20-2010, 02:34 PM
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When the bass setting on the deck is at 0 does it hammer? If not, then while it for sure doesn't help, this isn't the problem.

Does the woofer physically move as much as you expect it to?
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Old 09-20-2010, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Dukk
When the bass setting on the deck is at 0 does it hammer? If not, then while it for sure doesn't help, this isn't the problem.

Does the woofer physically move as much as you expect it to?
It will probably will hammer unless the inputs a cranked on RE-Q to compensate.

His options are to cap the mids or change amp and highpass the front end.
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Old 09-20-2010, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Dukk
When the bass setting on the deck is at 0 does it hammer? If not, then while it for sure doesn't help, this isn't the problem.

Does the woofer physically move as much as you expect it to?

yes it does. but will clip at a lower volume, at which you cannot hear the vocals. i just dont think that the factory speakers sound good at all when the bass is set flat at lets say 35 volume, as they do when the bass is set to -5 at 35 volume... hopefully you catch my drift.

the subwoofer itself moves freely, and looks like its getting the proper power, although the customer says that he doesn't think its full power. i told him to take into consideration that its a sealed enclosure firing sideways.

i guess what it comes down to is the customer feels like something is wrong because the gains have to be up so high, and he doesn't like the amount of dimming that goes on with the system.

the dimming part will be addressed using a 1.2 farad cap... whether it will help or not, we shall see.
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Old 09-20-2010, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by jalat
i know for a fact there is no factory subwoofer on the 2010 Camaro.
It's an option.

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the Kronos will not take an unbalanced signal. it will go straight into DC protect mode.
Yes it will. UNBALANCED = RCA
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Old 09-20-2010, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by danrc28
There is a MTX sub that can be purchased from the dealer, however it is installed with basically the same type of harness we used to install our setup. AND the outputs coming out of this harness are not unbalanced as someone stated before, they were previously measured at 6v floating dc balanced.
Not sure if you are talking about my post. I looked up the specs on the harness and they say it has RCA outputs which could be connected straight to the amp with RCA cables. This would at least tell you whether the RE-Q is the problem.
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What bothers me is the fact that we only used the FRONT 2 low level audio signals that were spliced into in the T harness. I noticed someone said something about having a full frequency range coming from the inputs? HERES A DIAGRAM OF THE X3 HARNESS WHICH IS THE ONE THAT IS SPLICED INTO BY THE T-HARNESS FOR SUB SETUPS. Any different ideas on what we should have used as inputs? (we used whats in PIN 6,7, 14, 15)
I'm not sure I understand you correctly, did you use the T-harness as-is out of the box? Did you have to configure it somehow by selecting which pins to use?
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Old 09-20-2010, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by kevmurray
It's an option.

Yes it will. UNBALANCED = RCA

all i know is that if you plug in the RCA's straight from the t-harness to the Kronos it will go into DC protect mode right away.
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I was looking at the diagram with all the pins (where you used pins _ _ _ _) the pins listed are described as low level outputs (not high level speaker outputs), doesn't the RE-Q expect high level input?
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Originally Posted by jalat
all i know is that if you plug in the RCA's straight from the t-harness to the Kronos it will go into DC protect mode right away.
Strange, the T-harness website said it had RCA ouputs. Sorry if I gave bad information.
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