Recent content by southpoleman69

all i can say is it rocks my lvl 4. so far I've been happy with it. and for 200 shipped with warranty i can't complain. my beef with hifonics is they have so many lines and they just all seem to be crap. i had an autotek 2 years ago, and i thought it produced very well, and in the past 2 years...

imo, soundstream. i just hooked up my rubicon 1600 and am very pleased. i wouldn't go with hifonics ever again. i had one about 4 years ago and it was complete trash, was a 1200 watt, and was just chunk. i didn't like anything about it. i don't see the cheapness in the new rubicons

Alright I put aside second guessing and set my gain with a dmm to 32.1, for. Ow. Trying to adjust everything and don't want to go over my voltage target. In any case what exactly does a se filter provide? And how do they get properly set. My box is tuned high, like 45 hz. I'm working a new one...

Fair enough I feel like I am over thinking it by alot

In whic case the equation doesn't work accurately then. This is what confuses me

So then setting my gains at 40 volts is ideal, since the amps rms is 1600, with my sub at 1 ohm, is 40 volts.

Fair enough I read it wrong then.

Well how are you to know the rms as oppose to max output of the amp. Nowhere have I found the rms of the 1600.1 rubicon. Just 1600x1@1. I would rather set it to the rms, if I knew it

I'm setting my rubicon at 40 volts to match a lvl 4. 1600x1@1, and lvl 4 is rated at 1400. If I set accordin. To sub its like 37.6, if I se according to amp its 40. So I'm basically ok either route I go?

Anyone wanna chime in here?

Originally Posted by Jmac Here's something I hope you can will all use to your benefits. As you may or may not have noticed, most equipment dies for one simple reason : Most people push their equipment beyond its limits. Whether its the amplifier or subwoofer or speakers, clipping is the number...

or say I'm setting a 4 channel amp. my front components can do 50 rms at 4 ohms, but my rears can do 100@4, so then the gains for each channel on a 4 channel are set differently?

hmm, so for a lvl 4, u go on rms or max. would it be 1400x1 sq rt=37.4 or 2400x1 sq rt=48.9

from what i understand, no. you take ur amps out put, times it by the desired ohm and sq root that.

not to thread jack here but, the just is set the gains to the voltage output of the amp. so, my rubicon is rated at 1600x1, so 1600x1 sq rt = 40 volts. but thats at max output. that amp will never put out 1600 actual watts. so wouldn't this cause a clipped signal? another example, my cousin has...