amp no working rite

[mazdaracer9486]

i just got a set of audiobahn 10s n i tryed playing with the amp n when i just got 1 rca in the sub works good but then when i put the otherrca in it sounds like crap.Could my amp b going bad

[Brad]

try reversing the hook ups inside the sub box on one sub.

[jnorion]

Sounds like the speakers are wired out of phase... make sure you have both hooked up the same way (+ to +, - to -)

[mazdaracer9486]

if i put in the other rca it sounds like **** . it does not matter wut rca i have in so i think some inside the amp went bad

[jnorion]

The RCA's aren't what would be switched... the speaker wire running to the subs is what we're talking about. If one has + to + and - to -, but the other one has + to - and - to +, they are out of phase and will sound bad. Make sure they're both the same way.

[mazdaracer9486]

they r both the same way

[blue LEDz]

i gotta start off by saying "english not you friend"


there's a few things it could be:

1) like they already said, 1 sub may be out of phase. from what i can tell it doesn't matter which RCA input you use, when just 1 is hooked up the subs are fine. we need a little more info here. is the sub a mono amp? do you have a 2 channel amp bridged to mono? are the subs sharing the same output? do you have 2 subs or 1? in your first post you say a set of 10's, but go on to refer to them in the singular form of the words you use.

2) your amp may have 2 RCA inputs, but one may be regular mono, and the other may be for out of phase use. kinda like my audio control 4XS cross over has 2 sub RCA outputs, one for regular, one for 180 degrees out of phase, but if they are both hooked up, the sub doesn't work.

3) amp is toast.

more info will be very helpful also stop and think before you type. being able to understand what you are saying makes a big difference too.

[mazdaracer9486]

i hvae a 1 channel amp n 2 10s

[Brad]

or just "drunk type"

[blue LEDz]

i hvae a 1 channel amp n 2 10s

what is the amp brand and model #? if it's mono, you aren't hurting anything by using just 1 input. you can get an RCA splitter that has 2 female ends into 1 male end and use that to get your left and right sound to the amp, and just plug that into 1 input on your amp. you also haven't said if this is an amp you've had for a while, and just started doing this, or if it's a new one, and you've got no previous experience with it.

[blue LEDz]

or just "drunk type"

nope, all his posts have been like that. and for a 17 year old, that is very unacceptable. the public school system has failed him

[jnorion]

nope, all his posts have been like that. and for a 17 year old, that is very unacceptable. the public school system has failed him

Last I saw the public school had pretty much failed in general

[blue LEDz]

Last I saw the public school had pretty much failed in general

i'm a product of the public school system i just happen to apply myself i graduated from one of the most under paid school disticts in FL, which that right there is bad, cause FL certainly isn't known for their awesome schools

[jnorion]

i'm a product of the public school system i just happen to apply myself i graduated from one of the most under paid school disticts in FL, which that right there is bad, cause FL certainly isn't known for their awesome schools

Me too... I graduated from one of the most underpaid school in Idaho. I had a history teacher with two bachelor's degrees and a master's and he was making slightly less than $30k a year. I didn't mean that as an insult to other people... I know exactly what kind of results it produces. I'm lucky that I cared enough to get everything I could out of it.