When I listen to music, it sounds kind of waving, and somewhat distorted. I replaced my stock integra speakers with my friend's stock 01' Type R speakers and I still had distortion. I concluded that my deck was bad. I then bought a deck and installed it and I still have distortion. Distortion is greater when there is more bass in the music. My friend's don't have this problem with their Integra's. What can be the problem?




Modified by whoisdan at 10:56 AM 11/23/2003

 

Turn your bass down somewhat.

 

it's the nut behind the wheel syndrom. You need to turn down your input sensitivity. You have it turned all the way up I bet.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Fuminsho &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it's the nut behind the wheel syndrom. You need to turn down your input sensitivity. You have it turned all the way up I bet. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Interesting. What is a wheel syndrom and which nut is it?

 

turn your amp gain down:

If you have it set right.. you should be able to turn you sound system all the way up with out any distortion.

So turn your stereo to full volume then turn your amp gain down till you stop hearing the distortion. I know, I know, it doesn't sound as loud, but you will save your speakers and your ears. You have to do this with any kind of amp you own. The amp could be 100 watts or 1000watts..... you will still have to tweak the gain to optimize you system for clarity.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Fuminsho &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">turn your amp gain down:

If you have it set right.. you should be able to turn you sound system all the way up with out any distortion.
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False. There are few headunits that do not clip at full output.

 

if it's just a signal, it will not clip... it's just that a signal at high and low... And I'm used to the $$$ head units that have top quality internals. Even 200.00 to 300.00 head units now a days have the old high tech, that allows them to perform close to if not as good as top quality head units.

And basically... your statement on my statement is not true... I just did it tonight.. full volume... no distortion..

"been there, doing that"

Over all, I'm trying to help this guy save his speakers. If he tunes amp with his head unit properly, he should get YEARS of good us out of the speakers as well as the amp. Again I'm speaking from experience.

 

He did not specify he was running an amplifier. He stated he replaced his deck with an aftermarket one (I am assuming here) but is using his friend's stock Type R factory speakers.

If this is the case, then the aftermarket deck is putting out too much power for his stock speakers to handle. He needs tune the aftermarket deck, adjust the bass and treble setting. Figure out what level volume the stock speakers begin to distort do to the excess power and not turn the volume to that level.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vigor5spd &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">He did not specify he was running an amplifier. He stated he replaced his deck with an aftermarket one (I am assuming here) but is using his friend's stock Type R factory speakers.

If this is the case, then the aftermarket deck is putting out too much power for his stock speakers to handle. He needs tune the aftermarket deck, adjust the bass and treble setting. Figure out what level volume the stock speakers begin to distort do to the excess power and not turn the volume to that level.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Correct dude, but I still had the distortion problem with my Stock deck, that was why I replaced my stock speakers for another set of stock ones and I still had distortion. I then bought a deck, and it is still distorted. My speakers are distorted with my stock and aftermarket deck.

 

What kind of distortion are you getting? Whining noise, static, clipping?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vigor5spd &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">What kind of distortion are you getting? Whining noise, static, clipping?</TD></TR></TABLE>

No static, whining or clipping noise. If I were to listen to rap music, the rapper wouldn't sound crystal clear, he would wavey. An example, if someone yelled out "AHHHHHHHHHH" it would sound like "ah Ah ah Ah" in my car, inconsistent.

 

my guess is it's the factory speakers. You're overworking them with the extra power and bass. Most factory speakers are rated for 15 watts, hell my Prelude's 6.5 part of the component set was 15 watts IIRC and I know for a fact the tweeter its self was listed as 3 watts. My guess is you're pumping them too much, and the extra power in the low bass the speakers can't reproduce very audibly are causing the rest of the audio sound to space out like you said. It's the bass pinning the speaker at the xmax not allowing it to really produce the other audio frequencies during that brief period of time.