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Unhappy with the sound quality of my install. Where can I improve it? Wiring?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jeffdachef" data-source="post: 8676429" data-attributes="member: 650438"><p>get a pioneer gm 8704 its a solid 135 dollar buy that'll sh*t on most offerings out there, you can never have too much power, you can always back off the gains. When you have an amp working at 100% capacity, your distortion levels will be a lot higher, your amp efficiency tanks and runs hotter. You want to have a lot of headroom so you can get the clean output you want with a squeaky clean signal and have all your equipment lasting a lot longer being FAR from any kind of clipping while getting the output you need. There is no overpowering because you directly control the power your amp puts out via gain settings however you have headroom for dynamic peaks that draw more power which usually puts your underpowered amp into clipping territory which screws up the sound as well. </p><p></p><p>The dayton is actually waaaay superior to the rockford I've used both. Rockford one is trash by comparison works like 50% of the times, all the units have bluetooth connection problems to the app. </p><p></p><p>I'd recommend just getting the bluetooth dongle anyways because you can do all your tuning on your smartphone rather than plugging a laptop every time you need to tune. Also you can just see the difference yourself between wired connection and the bluetooth connection and see the major difference yourself. Again you'll still run into the same issues if you do wired straight to the stock head unit, nothing will change other than you getting some tuning options. Your overall resolution is still low with the stock head unit meaning no matter how much you tune, its still never going to amount to anywhere close to a high resolution signal from the dongle. You'll just need to experience it yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeffdachef, post: 8676429, member: 650438"] get a pioneer gm 8704 its a solid 135 dollar buy that'll sh*t on most offerings out there, you can never have too much power, you can always back off the gains. When you have an amp working at 100% capacity, your distortion levels will be a lot higher, your amp efficiency tanks and runs hotter. You want to have a lot of headroom so you can get the clean output you want with a squeaky clean signal and have all your equipment lasting a lot longer being FAR from any kind of clipping while getting the output you need. There is no overpowering because you directly control the power your amp puts out via gain settings however you have headroom for dynamic peaks that draw more power which usually puts your underpowered amp into clipping territory which screws up the sound as well. The dayton is actually waaaay superior to the rockford I've used both. Rockford one is trash by comparison works like 50% of the times, all the units have bluetooth connection problems to the app. I'd recommend just getting the bluetooth dongle anyways because you can do all your tuning on your smartphone rather than plugging a laptop every time you need to tune. Also you can just see the difference yourself between wired connection and the bluetooth connection and see the major difference yourself. Again you'll still run into the same issues if you do wired straight to the stock head unit, nothing will change other than you getting some tuning options. Your overall resolution is still low with the stock head unit meaning no matter how much you tune, its still never going to amount to anywhere close to a high resolution signal from the dongle. You'll just need to experience it yourself. [/QUOTE]
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