Confused?
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Before you get excited. Make a Test CD or download or buy one. I'll walk you though setting the gain on the amplifier. Once you have the gain set on the amp for the CD player, you can use the EQ to make the radio less loud or not mess with it.
I use a little 1watt speaker from radio shack, I took a 2.5mm jacked extenstion wire, cut it in half, and added a piece of wire to the two wires. What you do is hook this up in place of your speakers on the amp, put in a test CD, play a 1kHz tone at your normal listening high volume and adjust the gain up until you hear clipping or the sound notably change or flatten out. This is where the amp starts clipping and distorting the sound.
If you set this with the CD player, you will be at the max for the CD player. The FM source may clip, but you can trim the freqs down with the equalizer.
I use a little 1watt speaker from radio shack, I took a 2.5mm jacked extenstion wire, cut it in half, and added a piece of wire to the two wires. What you do is hook this up in place of your speakers on the amp, put in a test CD, play a 1kHz tone at your normal listening high volume and adjust the gain up until you hear clipping or the sound notably change or flatten out. This is where the amp starts clipping and distorting the sound.
If you set this with the CD player, you will be at the max for the CD player. The FM source may clip, but you can trim the freqs down with the equalizer.
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Before you get excited. Make a Test CD or download or buy one. I'll walk you though setting the gain on the amplifier. Once you have the gain set on the amp for the CD player, you can use the EQ to make the radio less loud or not mess with it.
I use a little 1watt speaker from radio shack, I took a 2.5mm jacked extenstion wire, cut it in half, and added a piece of wire to the two wires. What you do is hook this up in place of your speakers on the amp, put in a test CD, play a 1kHz tone at your normal listening high volume and adjust the gain up until you hear clipping or the sound notably change or flatten out. This is where the amp starts clipping and distorting the sound.
If you set this with the CD player, you will be at the max for the CD player. The FM source may clip, but you can trim the freqs down with the equalizer.
I use a little 1watt speaker from radio shack, I took a 2.5mm jacked extenstion wire, cut it in half, and added a piece of wire to the two wires. What you do is hook this up in place of your speakers on the amp, put in a test CD, play a 1kHz tone at your normal listening high volume and adjust the gain up until you hear clipping or the sound notably change or flatten out. This is where the amp starts clipping and distorting the sound.
If you set this with the CD player, you will be at the max for the CD player. The FM source may clip, but you can trim the freqs down with the equalizer.
Where can I get a test cd? I'm wanting to buy a larger amp, should I wait to do all this?
I dont have a CD changer.. I have nothing hooked up besides the original part that allows you to connect IPOD, or Aux 1, 2.. No camera, no Navigation. Just regular how it is..
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I can zip the one I made and email it or you can download one. I wouldn't buy another, I don't need most of the music on there, I like a few tones, pink noise and a couple dynamic range songs (Wagner's The flying dutchman and the Valkyries).
You might as well get a speaker and try it out now. You can do this as often as you like, so it doesn't matter if you do it now or wait.
You might as well get a speaker and try it out now. You can do this as often as you like, so it doesn't matter if you do it now or wait.
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I can zip the one I made and email it or you can download one. I wouldn't buy another, I don't need most of the music on there, I like a few tones, pink noise and a couple dynamic range songs (Wagner's The flying dutchman and the Valkyries).
You might as well get a speaker and try it out now. You can do this as often as you like, so it doesn't matter if you do it now or wait.
You might as well get a speaker and try it out now. You can do this as often as you like, so it doesn't matter if you do it now or wait.
Yeah send me an email if you can with it. bigbuckhunter90@yahoo.com
I'm honestly terribly confused at what to do haha
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So you're using the CD player that's built into the unit then right ? If that's the case it sounds like you might have a faulty unit to me if there's that much difference in the sound levels. I think I'd take it back and try a different one.
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You know, you may be right. It does have problems with CD's I put in their, I can use them anywhere else, but when I put it in their. It says "Bad Disc"
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You shouldn't have them both on 6, that defeats the whole purpose of this function. If your FM radio is louder you need to set it at 0. Then you increase the disc setting up from 0 to get them to have the same volume. Maybe the Disc needs to be set at +5, the Sat needs to be at +2 etc. That way everything is at the same volume and you don't have to make sure to adjust the volume before you switch sources. My Kenwood unit does not have this feature and I wish it did. DVD volume is recorded a lot lower, and if I forget to turn down the volume before I switch to the radio I get blasted.
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I'm having trouble sending the whole CD. It's 39mb compressed. I sent you the 1kHz stuff and that should get you tuning.
Saying bad disc may not be a problem with the player as much as a problem with the media. CDs are coming with varying tolerances, width, diameter and I imagine the data platter as well. If you are getting a lot of "bad disc" with in a single batch of blank CDs then you might have a problem with the batch or the player. If you find a batch or manufacture that gives you trouble free use, then it's the spec of the other disc.
Saying bad disc may not be a problem with the player as much as a problem with the media. CDs are coming with varying tolerances, width, diameter and I imagine the data platter as well. If you are getting a lot of "bad disc" with in a single batch of blank CDs then you might have a problem with the batch or the player. If you find a batch or manufacture that gives you trouble free use, then it's the spec of the other disc.
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Yeah, I bet it's bad. Either that or it's just not a good quality unit. Jenson really isn't a real high quality manufacturer compared to others. I could see there being a big difference between an external source and the head unit sources, but if you're using all internal sources, they should be much closer in volume levels than what you're saying they are. Let us know what Jenson tells you.
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Yeah, I bet it's bad. Either that or it's just not a good quality unit. Jenson really isn't a real high quality manufacturer compared to others. I could see there being a big difference between an external source and the head unit sources, but if you're using all internal sources, they should be much closer in volume levels than what you're saying they are. Let us know what Jenson tells you.
That's what I'm afraid of, Will do