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^^^^ actually you can if you don't push it too hard. To me it sounds more like an issue with one of the new speakers that were put in. It sounds much like a tinsel lead grounding out or perhaps a wire going to ground. This would affect all speakers in the system. Friends don't let friends install stereos (or use Sony) Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.

Thanks for the advice, hopefully something will work

you say that the speakers were put in doors. how did you run the wireing thru the door jambs? maybe a speaker wire is grounding out.

Sounds like you hooked too many speakers up to the head unit. What that basically dose is drag the impedence down and suck the voltage right out of the head unit. Since the speakers are forcing far more voltage they may have got it and so could your head unit. In other words, your headunit could be damaged for good. A side note to forbidden- only the alternator has a voltage regulator..... I don't know of any head units that seem to "auto bridge" between wattage and voltage. It also seems like you were trying to push atleast 6 speakers with that head unit..... that's how I fried my first headunit to be completely honest. It was a pioneer and I learnt my lesson the hard way.

the unit now goes up to as high as i want, we're gonna disconnect the middle speakers and see if that helps any

You guys might not be privy to some of the info that I am. Soundstream conducted a nice series of test on everyones head units (and manufacturers as well) before they brought out a line of speakers known as SPL. They were available in coax and component form and of course subs. A selling point of the coax and component speakers were the fact that they were all 2 ohm. Guess how many problems we had with a head unit powering 2 ohm front and rear speakers from cd players like Pioneer, Panasonic, Eclipse, Alpine, Driftwood.....not one problem.Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.

Good to know!  Thanks Rob.  I imagine the THD on those built-in amps went through the roof, though.Support the12volt.com

alright, the middles are disconnected. the right side of the car still works perfectly fine, but the left side still is pushin about 3/4 less than the right side...any clue?

thanks, I'll check it out, cause I know the settings are fine on the deck