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Old 09-18-2011, 8:30pm   #1
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I put new 6 1/2" speakers in the mid panels of my '98 this morning. Some Kenwood 3-ways rated at 70W RMS. The reason I put the new speakers in was because I have started collecting music I like again, through AmazonMP3 -

(Yes, I pay for music. One song at a time, carefully chosen, each a gem)

- and I was having trouble with bass distortion at any reasonable (top-down, 75 mph) volume. DURRR Durr DURRR DURRrr...

The new speakers are fine... the three-way means I'm hearing some details from the mid-panels I've never heard before, but...

... I still have a problem with the bass distorting. I can turn the volume up higher, before it becomes a problem, but it's still there...

...on the NEWER stuff only.

I can turn up my older stuff - "Sweet Home Alabama", "Bad Moon Rising", "Seven Bridges Road", Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Def Leppard, Starship, Styx, Guns N Roses, Poison, Queen, even Ozzy and "Crazy Train" - until it's painfully loud, and it never develops that that awful bass distortion.

I can turn up my orchestral stuff - Ave Fortuna, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Barber's Adagio, William Tell, 1812 Overture - and it never develops the heavy distortion.

But I can't turn up the newer stuff very loud at all, before the bass distortion DURRR DURRR DuRR DURRRrrr is unbearable.

Maddening!
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most new stuff is designed to be played in conjunction with one or more sub woofers.

put a sub in and then a filter to have most of the lows to the woofer. no more awful sounding durr
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New stuff is designed for 80-billion watt subwoofers in cars. Also, they use so much dynamic compression that there's no "loud" or "soft" any more-- it's all the same volume. This is primarily because modern music is mixed for playing in cars and personal music players, NOT home audio systems where there's very little background noise.
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All of the above, and to which I may add, modern 'music' SUX......
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All of the above, and to which I may add, modern 'music' SUX......
...Big Time!

Most modern crap isn't MUSIC, period!
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...Big Time!

Most modern crap isn't MUSIC, period!
Just now on FOX NEWS this morning they were broadchasing from The Villages, down the road a piece from me, and so had that group on there, worst singing I ever heard....Foreigner never heard of them....which was fine by me....they SUCK....
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get a decent sub and a good class d amp.
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Stop listening to cRAP & all will be well again
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...Big Time!

Most modern crap isn't MUSIC, period!
If it's on the radio, than you're likely correct. If you think modern music sucks, you aren't listening to the right bands.
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Just now on FOX NEWS this morning they were broadchasing from The Villages, down the road a piece from me, and so had that group on there, worst singing I ever heard....Foreigner never heard of them....which was fine by me....they SUCK....
I think this album came standard with every c-4 purchase:
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Foreigner never heard of them....which was fine by me....they SUCK....
A band that's been around for 35 years is typically not used as an example of "music these days".
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this thread went from sound system to
Oldpeoplehatenewmusic/thread.
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Maybe I'm too late for the radio suggestions...But does your head unit have a filter option? Or can you install a filter to filter out the lower frequencies? This should fix your distortion.
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I will just have to suffer through the distortion, and maybe stick to more older stuff.

I took a pair of 10" speakers, massive particleboard speaker box, and an amp OUT of the car, that the kid who I bought it from had originally installed. All that crap weighed 30 pounds! 30 pounds of extra weight in a sports car! HERESY!

(Mostly in the huge-ass speaker box which was fitted to the cargo well)
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Maybe I'm too late for the radio suggestions...But does your head unit have a filter option? Or can you install a filter to filter out the lower frequencies? This should fix your distortion.
The unit does have an "HPF" section in the audio settings, and a few other settings which look similar. I have never gotten into their use, not sure what I would do with them.
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Lacking an active crossover, A 1000µF capacitor placed inline on one of the speaker leads will help filter out sub-40hz frequencies.
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What's wrong with Music these days?
Everything. Literally EVERYTHING.
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