audio guys, need some help.
 

My speakers sounded like they were blow. Well more specifically the rear driver side speaker. So i bought a set of jenson 75w speakers and replaced them. It still sounds blown. The stuff involved is
a. poineer head unit 45x4 watts
b. poineer 6.25 up front 75w
c. stockers in the back ?w
d. Brand new 75w jenson speakers 6.25 in rear
e. A rca converter coming from my back left speaker to my amp
f. 2 12" subs

after i replaced the speaker in the rear, i noticed my front left one was popping too, so i replaced that one. Now i have jenson on the left side of the car, and a poineer up front right, and stock in right rear. If i turn the volume up so i can clearly hear it on the highway (its not loud enough to blow them, still pretty quiet) it starts popping again on the same speaker. What i think i have narrowed it down to is either the head unit or the rca converter. But im hella broke and i cant afford to replace stuff that isn't broke. So can someone help me figure out what it is? It pops mostly on treble, but sometimes on bass if the song is heavy on the bass. I can turn up the mids almost all the way before they start popping, but they pop with the treble or bass just barely up. I don't think i blew all 4 speakers, but thats what it sounds like. I have a pretty good deck i need to throw in if i can ever get the screw out of the back of my current deck so i can get it out of my dash. Just frustrating as ---- cuz i can't listen to music on the way to work. Someone help me. I can post pics if needed.

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What the hell is an RCA converter? Are you talking about something that takes the speaker output and converts it to a low level RCA signal?

I'd say your head unit is messing things up, and Jensen is a joke company so I wouldn't say their speakers are good. Also, put both speakers of the same type in front or both in back, don't mix and match all retarded style like you did. Stockers in the back, Jensens in the rear... wtf are you talking about?

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So you have 6 speakers? Do you have 2 speakers hooked up to one channel on the head unit, thats bad the head unit can't handle the 2 ohm load. Also the rca convertor shold be hooked up to two speakers. We have what is called stereo, that means that the music coming out of the left speaker is different than what is coming out of the right.

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i only put the jensons on the left side becuase that is where the blown speakers are. yeah the rcs converter just converts regular speaker wires to rca wires. im gunna go ahead and hook up the rca converter to both back speakers, i never thought about the stereo thing. i guess i can give it another shot at getting the head out today though. hopefully that will fix it.

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Sounds like you have a wiring issue. First I would just get some regular RCA wires and run them for the subs (or unplug them and see if it gets better). If that doesn't help check for bad connections. I had the same problem in my EF hatch. Turned out the wire was messed up somewhere between the passenger seat and the rear speaker. Instead of hunting it down I just ran new speaker wire and it sounded fine.

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that RCA converter is going to cause some issues. Those are made for stock system setups. Meaning, using a stock ehad unit, and an amp/ subs. In your case, you need to fork out $10 on RCAs, run them from the head unit back, and you should be fine. Also, I would recommend throwing the stock speakers away, taking the jensens back wherever u got them, and upgrading to a real sound system. Personally, I'm running db drive component sets in my integra, and I'm highly satisfied. I believe that >$200 invested for crystal clear quality sound is well worth it. Is your radio straight wired into the dash as well????

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use a process of elimination. disconnect amp sub. if it sounds better then its that. its probably just your head unit tho. try and swap that out and see if it works. line out converters are for stock headunits and they sound like ----. quit being cheap and get a cheap pioneer 3000 with preouts.

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I'm pretty sure his head unit has RCA preouts, I'm just not sure why he isn't using them.

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first check your wiring at the speaker and make sure its right
AKA. switch the wires around and see if you have them backwards if you do youll no it when you hook it up. it will sound different
run your RCAs straight to your sub amp without the converter
could possiblly be a bad headunit

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the reason im using the rca convertor is becuase for the life of me, i cant get this deck out. its a pain in the ass but this way works. if i could get it out, i have a deck my bro bought last year for like almost 300 i want to put in. but anyways, i almost pulled the whole dash trying to get that eck out today, and then my friend shows up and asks why im doing that. so i turn up the volume and sure enough, seems fixed. didnt change anything besides running an extra wire for the whole stereo thing mentioned earlier. so im just gunna pay my friend to pull it out and ill rewire it for the new cd player and it will be good.

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rca converter. a blown speaker sound is what you will here when it its nto doing its job properly

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well it seems good now. oh and the deck im using now is a decent deck. its a pioneer deh-2050 or something like that. it does have rca jacks, but i cant get it out to use them. so once i get it out, ill switch to the other deck and ill put some good rca wires in, and a new antenna so i can get radio. i think this new one is compatible with my xm radio too, so maybe i can hide that also.

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you just need the keys to get the head unit out, it takes about 15 seconds

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Dude it's not hard, what kind of car is this? You better not say civic

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lol funny topic. i got 4 inch rockford fosgate coaxial in the front with second set of tweeters, volfenhag 5 1/4 in the rear, jensen dvd/cd player with 2.5 inch screen as head unit, volfenhag 1240 watt amp, 3.0 farad power acoustik capacitor, and last but not least some old school punch z's(2 10" in kicker l7 ported box. bet sounding system ive ever had. i would like to say at least 120 dbs out of the subs if not 130. all stuffed in my hatch ftw!!!

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yeah its in a civic, problem is, it was professionally install before i bought it and i didnt get the key things for it. so im kinda screwed unless i can find a shop locally that has them.

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oh, and the problem is back. i made sure to check every wire i could find to see if there was anything touching, and there isnt. so i need to get those keys and replace the deck and run real rca wires.

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Take a picture of your deck. I will show you how to remove it. You will feel a bit silly.

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---- if it will get it out, i dont mind. ill have to bump this thread tomorrow though, cuz im too ------- tired. you want a pic with the ring around the deck off right?

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Heh, my ----'s ------- up too. Last Saturday my sub just quit working, but it didn't sound like it blew or anything like that, just completely lost power. I pulled over and looked and my power cap (1.5 Farad 1000W Power Acoustic) was reading 8.3-9.1 V's, then started flashing random numbers and lines... However the amp still had power this whole time.. I got it home and checked everything with the meter without the cap hooked up, the battery, the alternator and the amp are all getting/making sufficient power, but the output on the amp doesn't seem to be working. I'm also using a RCA Converter box because my shitty Xplod head unit doesn't have RCA jacks on the back, but it does have an Ipod hookup? I'm not sure if the RCA Converter box fried out, or if the power cap shorted out the output on my amp.. BTW the amp is a Alpine MRP-450 http://www.bargainsnest.com/assets/i...all/MRP450.jpg

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Bwahaha, take console off or faceplate of console depending on model. Undo screws holding case holding cd player in. Pull whole unit out. Use common sense to remove from case and reverse steps.