kenwood amps to clip like crazy?
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Topic: kenwood amps to clip like crazy?
Posted By: xTimx
Subject: kenwood amps to clip like crazy?
Date Posted: March 24, 2005 at 1:41 AM
i have actually heard from a friend that the kenwood excellon amps clip like crazy. why i dunno. but i was informed this AFTER i bought my new kenwood amp, KAC-8101D. and my friend also told me that his friend had one of these hooked up to a focal sub wired in 2 ohm mono. and it fried the voice coils and literally melted them. any rumours or ideas on these amps?
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xTimx
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Posted By: dwarren
Date Posted: March 24, 2005 at 2:30 AM
user error, not equipmnet
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Posted By: kfr01
Date Posted: March 24, 2005 at 3:06 AM
Clipping is almost always (always?) caused by careless people and/or behavior, not faulty equipment. I would bet money that your friend doesn't know how to correctly set his gain and/or likes to show off and got careless with the volume knob. He also apparently doesn't know what massive distortion and clipping sound like. ------------- New Project: 2003 Pathfinder
Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: March 24, 2005 at 10:26 AM
it's a poor musician who blames his instrument...........
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Posted By: Alpine Guy
Date Posted: March 24, 2005 at 7:47 PM
Im shure if there was a clipping problem such as that, kenwood would have alot of pissed off customers. Aparently your friend is the only guy with the problem. Almost guaranteed that the gain was cranked, or the user does not know what clipping subs sounds like. ------------- 2003 Chevy Avalanche,Eclipse CD7000,Morel Elate 5,Adire Extremis,Alpine PDX-4.150, 15" TC-3000, 2 Alpine PDX-1.1000, 470Amp HO Alt.
Posted By: auex
Date Posted: March 24, 2005 at 11:39 PM
Amps don't kill subs, People kill subs!!!
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Posted By: Xplorer
Date Posted: March 25, 2005 at 12:10 AM
I have a Kenwood Excelon KAC-811D amp and love it. It's a great amp and from a few Kenwood owners I have talked to Excelon branch amps are good. It won't clip if you set it up right. Goodluck!
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Posted By: wheelerdr
Date Posted: March 25, 2005 at 6:37 AM
its hard to beat any of the excelon products they are just great
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Posted By: Poormanq45
Date Posted: March 25, 2005 at 8:20 AM
It's possible that he is over powering his sub and causing distortion, which he he assuming is coming from the amplifier.
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Posted By: xTimx
Date Posted: March 25, 2005 at 12:41 PM
i know they're awesome, right now i have my subs wired in para/para to get a 1.5 ohm load, the amp doesnt heat up at all and they just pound...(drools like homer simpson) i was kinda disapointed that the stereo place where i got the amp from didnt have the 8151D model. thats the one with the external bass control. but instead i have to control it from my HU. oh well. its all good none the less.
is it really possible to over power a focal sub with this amp!? i mean c'mon they can take a beating, the subs i mean.
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xTimx
Posted By: dwarren
Date Posted: March 25, 2005 at 12:46 PM
I've heard other wise, those subs are fairly fragile, relatively speaking, not somehing that you can beat up on get away with. They aren't really spl monsters, I believe their purpose was to sound good.
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Posted By: xTimx
Date Posted: March 25, 2005 at 1:13 PM
hmmmmmmm interesting.....ya that kinda makes sense. back in the day the focal kevlar subs were rare in shops. and only a few people in the cities of canada had them i think. and my friends bro had one and he blew his.
anyways in any case these amps rock. i like them.......so far. but im just trying to understand all the switches on this thing. like the infrasonic switch and the extender......i know what the bass boost does...and that switch is turned off. can anyone explain to me what those two do!?
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xTimx
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