I picked up a Clarion 575usb yesterday and installed it. What a great sounding deck, my god its nice. I'm hearing things I never noticed in songs before. Anyways, I was wondering. MY last deck I could crank it all the way up (almost until it wasn't bearable anymore), but it didn't distort. Today I tuned my amp, I set the deck at 20 volume setting and turned up the dials on the amp till it distorted and then turned them back down like I originally did with my old pioneer deck. The thing that I dont get is that once I go past 22, it distorts. Its loud as hell but it distorts. I know this new deck has 6v preouts, and my old one only had something like 2.2...anyways. How can I resolve this?

 

Properly set the gain on your amp? If you set it properly at volumn 20, why would you expect it not to distort at higher then 20?

 

Because I did the same thing last time and it didnt. MAybe I should turn it down a bit more.

 

Try resetting the gain again, my brother has the same amp and I have it set so his max volumn is 28 and it sounds just fine on a old crossfire amp and a pair of rockford p2's.

 

I have the 775usb and what I did was turned the deck to volume 28 and tuned the amp to that. Sounds awesome, loud and clear.

 

Will do, thanks guys.