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Stealthimage 
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Posted: May 23, 2006 at 12:25 PM / IP Logged  
I have a new Alpine headunit with built in crossover settings, and three Alpine aplifiers.  One for my highs, and two for my two Alpine subs.  I really don't like messing around with the settings for my crossovers on the headunit.  I would rather just put the deck on DEFEAT and use my amplifier settings.  What do you guys like to do?  Also, with my amplifier gain settings.  I know how to set my four channel.  I unhook my sub amps and turn the gain settings all the way down on my amp and then turn the headunit volume up 3/4 of the way.  Then I adjust my gains and crossover accordingly.  But with my two mono amps, when I go through to set them on my subs I notice that at the exact same settings on the amps the subs are not playing at the same level.  Is this normal/unusual that two of the exact same amps need to be adjusted at different settings to get the subs to be close to equal??????  Would this have anything to do with my splitting the one sub output off my deck, or the mono/stereo output setting?  All of my components are brand new so I know there shouldn't be anything wrong with them. 
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Posted: May 23, 2006 at 3:48 PM / IP Logged  
OK first I would defeat the crossovers on the headunit use the ones on  the amps,  As far as the sub amps they may not be set 100% the same. How can you tell they are not performing equally, are you only running one at a time to see this. I woud set the gains accordingly running only 1 sub at a time. The mono stereo setting is this on the amp, if so are you running the amp bridged or mono. I bet if list model numbers someone familiar with the exact model will respond more detailed.
djlayz 
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Posted: May 24, 2006 at 7:31 AM / IP Logged  

Are the 2 amps the same? and how do you have the 3 amps hooked up to the HU?

Stealthimage 
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Posted: May 24, 2006 at 9:04 AM / IP Logged  
Yes, all three amps are Alpine, and the two sub amps are the same.  I have the four channel hooked into the front and rear RCAs on the headunit and the two sub amps are hooked into the sub output on the headunit.  I used Y splitters to break the HU output for the two RCA's which I ran to the amps.  My four channel is hooked up to the HU remote turnon and the sub amps are both on separate switches coming off of the ignition 12V.
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Posted: May 24, 2006 at 10:07 AM / IP Logged  

Well on mine I have the same hook up except i dont have the y splitter i have the 2nd sub amp daisy chained of the first and i dont have a problem. You may want to try that out, if your amps have RCA outputs on it, I don't know if itll help but its an idea.

Stealthimage 
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Posted: May 24, 2006 at 11:36 AM / IP Logged  
My four channel has an output but my sub amps don't, so this won't work.
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Posted: May 24, 2006 at 12:07 PM / IP Logged  
what model #s are the amps and subs
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Posted: May 24, 2006 at 2:25 PM / IP Logged  
Two MRP M-350 mono block sub amps and one MRP F-240 four channel amp.  My subs are Alpine S-Type 4ohm DVCs.

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