New To Car Audio

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Forum Name: Car Audio
Forum Discription: Car Stereos, Amplifiers, Crossovers, Processors, Speakers, Subwoofers, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=82843
Printed Date: May 09, 2025 at 11:19 PM

Topic: New To Car Audio

Posted By: top222
Subject: New To Car Audio
Date Posted: September 13, 2006 at 6:32 PM

First Of Hi everyone Hows it going.

I Have a 1989 Mercedes 300ce

My Current Set Up is

-Alpine 9847 Deck

-Eclipse Speakers all Around

-Kenwood Kac-929 1000Watt Amp

-2 Mtx Thunder 5500 12s DVC

- the Box is a RiT Box And its Ported

Now heres where I need help. Is that amp any good For those subs? Or do i need a New Amp? If i need a New amp what Amp?

Secound, Is it just my battery or is something wired wrong, wen the cars off if i try to turn up the Music louder then 20 without subs or anything just speakers over 20 it over loads and resets, wen the cars on it never over loads..

Please Help

Replies:

Posted By: cloak559
Date Posted: September 13, 2006 at 7:21 PM

what exactly do you mean by it "overloads and resets?"

Your underpowering your subs quite a bit and you should look into a new amplifier that puts out around 600-700wrms. You could either wire your subs in parallel and find a nice 1ohm stable monoblock amp, or find a 2channel amp that puts out about 300-400 x2 @ 2ohms...

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'89 Mercedes-Benz 300E
Pioneer DEH-5900UB
(2)RE Audio SX 10"s
(1)US Amps MD3D
3ft^3 @ 37Hz

Blowing up in a car accident doesnt worry me, as long as I'm putting out some major dB's when I die...

Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: September 13, 2006 at 7:34 PM

How are your subs wired...? AND, can your amp deliver (I'm thinking NOT) @ the given load?

Consider wiring like this...

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Posted By: top222
Date Posted: September 13, 2006 at 7:34 PM

The batterys new its weird. Whats a recomended amp?

Posted By: top222
Date Posted: September 13, 2006 at 7:57 PM

I will Try to Re wire like that.

Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: September 13, 2006 at 10:33 PM

Welcome to the forum. I'm new as well.

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Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.

Posted By: Flakman
Date Posted: September 14, 2006 at 3:03 PM

forbidden wrote:

Welcome to the forum. I'm new as well.

Well...I'm curious..."new" to what? posted_image

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The Flakman
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