Originally posted by flipped cracker
i have a couple of questions. my friend just bought a new system (2 10" kicker comps 8ohms, volfenhag 500watt amp) and i hooked it up in my car (because he doesn't want it in his truck (94 ford explorer) yet) and there's more bass to it than what i have (2 10" pioneer subs with a koiiler 600watt amp) and i'm just curious as to why. is it just that the kickers are better? also, i bridged his but not mine (the guy he bought from told me to bridge it). and if bridging is the difference, why is that? what does bridging actually do?
also, is a crossover what i would need to get rid of the distortion of my regular speakers? everytime heavy bass hits, i get mad distortion in my 4 regular speakers, but once the bass is gone, they're fine. that'd be what a crossover fixes, right? (and how does that work anyway?)
thanks. :goodjob:
there are way too many varibles to why his system may "hit harder" than your old one. tell you one thing though, pioneer subs sucks compared to the kicker comps. then you have different amps and settings. then you have the different box design.
bridging the amp basically "combines" the two channels of the amp into one. so its like "more power" for the sub.
your "four" "regular" speakers, do you have an "external" amp to them? if so, you have to set the amp to HIGH PASS, so the "higher" freqencies can "pass" through the filter.
if you dont have an amp, you probably can adjust something on your "aftermarket" deck. but yes. the reason your speaker is getting that distortion is because they are getting freqencies they cant handle. a xover "should" fix that.
i think.
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