Radio Sound Clipping

For some reason when i turn the volume up on my radio (like the level of my voice) the sound starts clipping when the beat hits. So to listen to it, i have to keep the volume VERY low. (as in, i can barely hear it over the engine) It sometimes doesnt malfunction when the engine is off, and will immediately start again if i rev the engine past like 3k. I have a small amp in my car driving all of the speakers, but i am certainly not driving the amp hard enough to reach it's max power. (i used it for my sub too, but then i took out the sub) Any ideas?? Do i need to get a new deck?? amp?? CAR??!? could it be a grounding problem? -jesse

If you did this radio yourself and you are not very experienced you may want to check your wires behind your radio.~The Rookie~

Rookie of the year that is...

Don't let the smoke out of your equiptment..it doesn't go back in.

This could be a lot of things. It could be that you hooked up your speaker outputs from the amp wrong. It could be the amp is bad. It could be power issue to the amp and you could have grounded out one of the speaker wires. It could even be in the rca's. The best thing id to use a DMM and see what kinda voltage you have at the amp with the car on. Test and see what the ohms are on the speakers at the amp with everything off. You can even try and take a speaker that you know work and disconet the other speakers from the amp and just use the test speaker and see if it does it. One last thing if you are runnign four speakers it is a four channel amp right. Because if you are trying to run four speakers off a two channel amp and running it parallel the front and the back spreakers then it would do something like that. Let us know what you find and good luck.

Sounds to me like you had a factory amp in the car and you are overdriving it.  Or you are overdriving the amp you installed.  Did you use the factory wiring to the speakers?  Are you sure there is no factory amp? What kind of car?

yeah i have installed a few stereos so i dont think it is whe wiring on the deck itself. In fact yesterday i went and soldiered all of the connections to the deck just to make sure.. But thanks a lot speakerman... imma go check out the amp (yes it is a 4 chanel). The thing is that the amp was working fine for like 2 years, so it might just be that it went bad. But thanks a lot guys.

oh btw, it's not a factory amp. It's a kenwood 800 watt (i think) It should be plenty to power 2 6x9s and 2 4x6's... in a nissan 240sx.