Originally Posted by Sound

There's nothing wrong with the wiring on my install. The polarity isn't crossed. My cables are very high quality true 4AWG wiring (not that cheap china "4-gauge" where the cable is all casing). RCA's are top notch too. The amp does turn on and I get a full 14.4 V going into it.

I think after reading a tutorial on bridging I know why my amp isn't working properly. I didn't bridge it. I can see now that when I went to the 200W it was on a 2 ohm load, vs. I assume 4ohm right now. So I'm going to re-wire it and see what happens.

I know that boosting the gain/bass boost to maxed out levels is extremely dangerous for the system. I wasn't worried about actually blowing it because the level were so low. After today we'll see what happens. If this thing fails me again ill go buy a nice alpine mono-block or burn my car!

Originally Posted by Sound

a crappy 600W Sony X-Plod amp (4/2/1)