I am not sure it is the right term.
If I have a 1.5 DIN HU that does not have really good SQ (yep, most of the 1.5 DIN HU does not have really good SQ) and I wanna keep it.
Do y'all know anything, maybe crossover or balance line cleaner, whick increases the SQ of the HU?
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Re: Line cleaner ??? (mike76002)
Are you perhaps referring to a “Balanced Line Driver”? It will increase the output voltage and clean up the signal of a HU to the active crossover then to the amp. If that is what you mean then, yes, it will help. I recommend you run an electronic crossover with it though.
What brand of HU? are you sure it isnt the speakers?
I got Pioneer 1.5 DIN HU and Diamond Audio speakers. My friend got the same setup but he got Eclipse HU and it cleaner than mine.
My system still prettly clean, I just wanna get cleaner ...
Diamonds speakers are very nice. So yours is identical, same amps, same gain settings, etc?
I found the Pioneer 1.5 to be a pretty clean unit. You have your gains set at 2:1 gain ratio to 3/4 volume right?
Glad to hear that !!!
Kale ... that is too much technical to me :D . What do mean like that ???
Did you mean crank up the volume to 3/4 and the gain on the amps just about 1/2 of what suppose to be ...
There was one thing I noticed from my friend system. Yep, he had to crank up the volume to 52 to hear it loud, mine is just about 25 to get the same level as his. So maybe I set my amp gain too much !!!
Thanks :cheers:
Location: Frankenstein never scared me. Marsupials do, because their fassst…and they DART, THAT'S crazy!
Re: Line cleaner ??? (mike76002)
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So maybe I set my amp gain too much !!!
Thanks :cheers:
:lol: Setting the gain too high will degrade the sound a lot, not to mention hurt your speakers. :yesnod:
Line Drivers are usually used on high-end, super clean systems when you use everything in the electronics arsenal to eek out the most SQ you can. Used in conjunction with an active xover they can really improve SQ but unless you are just a serious audiophile or compete, then there really is no need for you to use one.
A quick, easy method of setting gains is:
Turn the gains on the amp down completely; turn the volume on the HU up to about 75% full volume. Then turn the gain on the amp up until you hear clipping then back down just below it. Repeat process for all amps on all components.
Btw, unplug all RCA’s from the amps you are not adjusting the gains on, do one amp at a time in that fashion.
One way to do it, is to set your head unit to 3/4 volume (your head unit puts out distorted signal any higher)
So if your head goes to 40, tune your stereo to 30.
Now listen to intense music like KORN and slowly up the gains until yuo hear distortion, then back them down slightly.
* - OR - *
Download the gain setting CD (if you have a FAT broadband pipe) that I posted here.. "free gain setting cd" and use that. You can "pick" your clipping ratio (amount of audible distortion) with that more easily. But i think the first method works just as well for speakers.
Thanks for y'all fast responding !!!
I have tried that and when I tuen on the gain of the amp, my speakers get really loud, I even cannot stand that loud but still no distortion so I just set my amp gain about 1/5 of it ...
Let me down load the file from Kale and test it.
Thanks again !!!
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Start with crap you end up with crap (hee-hee). How about an ECLIPSE. By the way I was wrong about my brother's HU. It's not the one you sped out. His is the in-dash DVD w/ 6" monitor. How you you like my sig pic??
Start with crap you end up with crap (hee-hee). How about an ECLIPSE. By the way I was wrong about my brother's HU. It's not the one you sped out. His is the in-dash DVD w/ 6" monitor. How you you like my sig pic??
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:D :D Agree agree Scott !!! But I give my HU another shot before upgrade it to Eclipse ... I like you sig pic !!! Look cool
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Line cleaner ???
I too recommend Alpine grasshoppa’.
