which alpine is better, never had one Options

[Scarrell]

yeah thats like 6 hours away.... im not sure what the Defeat does.. Alpines are a pain to set

[Yota]

I'll give it a shot...nothing to lose, right?

Where about are you from in relation to the Quad Cities?

[snadman]

OK, in the the menu and then like settings or something...play around...you turn the subwoofer on. And then "Subwoofer" option is added to the fade, balance, etc list when you press in the volume button.

[Scarrell]

im in Carmi IL.... southern part of IL... boring part of IL basically, lol

[Yota]

Snadman-

I have the subs on. This is my problem...

I have 2 amps...The subwoofers are powered by one...That part is figured out, they work great!

The second amp that powers my door speakers (and soon to be rear speakers when I figure out the problem) only plays at half the output as they used to under my Excelon headunit. Apparently, there is a "Power IC" function that needs to be turned off (this cuts the internal amplifier and apparnetly boosts the external amplifier for optimum sound quality. But I don't know how to turn it off...

[2003cbgts]

so what does the defeat function do? i just bought the lowest level alpine and its 45w. honestly i was kinda disapointed.. it just seems like i cant turn it up real loud at all.. the volume only goes to 35. and when it gets that high, it sounds kinda bad. could it be my speakers? is even the lowest alpine pretty good? its the cde 9843.. what u guys think?

[Scarrell]

it sounds kinda bad? well thats called distortion......distortion is bad, it will blow your speakers... if you have the bass and treble all the way up then turn them down.. bass around 1 or 2, and treble around 4-6 or so... whatever you like... turn it all the way up or to a reasonably level til it distorts, and set everything from there... and yes its a good cd player... also if you have stock speakers, replace them and it will be different.. also the cd player isnt realyl 45x4.... no cd player is.. its probably around 12 - 27rms..

[2003cbgts]

thanks^^ . yea i just read on the box its 16rms. i have all aftermarket speakers in already. and i have turned the bass and treble down. but if u think its a pretty good cd player i think ill keep it. and just hope its the speakers.

[Scarrell]

make sure you have them wired right.... not the pos wire to the neg connection...etc... an easy way to tell is to fade the speakers and balance and if one side is louder the other then it is wired wrong more than likely...

[Terzin1]

ok, getting back the 45's and 47's, do they have the headphone jack auxilary plug on either of them? I have a portable dvd player and it would be bomb to hook it up to my system in teh car. The PSP would sound tight too!

This post has been edited by Terzin1: Apr 17, 2005 - 6:16 PM

[SlowCelica94]

I'm not an audio guy, so I can't help too much. But I bought an Alpine CD/MP3 player (the one for about $350, no idea what it's name is) And now I need to help pull the CD out

[Terzin1]

no ****, you are from Bloomington. Im guessing your are going to IU than. Ill be going there next year. Thats tight!

[Scarrell]

they both do... go to www.crutchfield.com and check out both players and click detailed specs.. or you can just go to Alpines website...

[Terzin1]

i saw that it said optional, what is that suppose to mean? I want to be able to plug in a portable dvd player using its headphone jack to the auxilary jack.

[mikew04]

Yota, turning that power ic function off is not going to help you, you have a different problem. It just turns off the internal amp so that it has more power to send a cleaner signal to the amp, so you get better sound quality... i tried it with mine off, but i did not notice a difference. I turned it back on because i use it to run my attenuated rears. If i were you i would check the wiring to the speakers, make sure they are in phase, and make sure the crossovers in the HU are turned off for now, until you can figure out what the problem is and fix it.