Low volume from sub?
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Low volume from sub?
Ok, so I hooked up a sub to my car tonight. Using speaker-level inputs directly to a mono amp.
My problem is that when I spliced into either left or right rear speaker signal alone, it sounded fine. But when I splice into both, the subwoofer becomes inaudible? I have checked +/- on the splice. Am I suppose to splice into rear left and rear right, and + and - if it is a mono amp (4 splices)?
My problem is that when I spliced into either left or right rear speaker signal alone, it sounded fine. But when I splice into both, the subwoofer becomes inaudible? I have checked +/- on the splice. Am I suppose to splice into rear left and rear right, and + and - if it is a mono amp (4 splices)?
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Rep Power: 0 You might be shorting the speaker wires where you spliced it and your cancelling your output signal.. Swap the wires from one side over...should be left+ to right + ..left- to right -.
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Rep Power: 0 Actually I figured it out today. It wasn't the left/right swap, but positive/negative on one side. I always thought brighter color wire = positive, but i was wrong... haha
Once I swapped the positive and negative, it was working.
Once I swapped the positive and negative, it was working.
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