Volume Drop headunit

[pintorulz]

i have a pioneer 7750mp headunit hooked up to a vnet 4ch amp. The amp is running a pair of 6.5inch pioneer splits tsc160r and a clarion 12 inch sub. I have noticed that the volume would go low everytime i listen to cd... The headunit has 3 rca out and i have hooked up all three rear, front and subs. i havnt hooked up the rear rca up as i dont have an amp yet for the rear. I have noticed that the volume always turns to decrease a couple of notch..

anyone else experiencing the same problem???

[michael_antoi]

whats the WRMS rating on ur amp?

[pintorulz]

50wrms.....

[michael_antoi]

your amp may be underpowered.

You seem to be poweing a lot off that amp, more than it can handle.

That could be the reason, possibly try with a friends amp?

[pintorulz]

U reckon it is the amp??
the volume decreases then increases and so on....

[michael_antoi]

could be an underpowered amp

in certain parts of a song when the sub is required to pump hard it may draw the power from the other speakers.

[pintorulz]

i went out and bught another amp its a audiobank avantigrade 23dxi amp??? not sure about the rms ratting but i am thinking of either running the sub of this 2 channel and the front splits off the 4 ch v net... would this solve the problem??

[michael_antoi]

well i would've of tested to see if the amp was the problem first, but, since u have already bought another amp, why not try it and see...

shouldn't take you long to hook it up

[TEG61E]

DO u mean drops as soon as u put in a CD? Or intermittently goes up and down while ur listening to a CD?

If its the first problem, then its ur SLA(Source Level Adjuster) in the Audio menu. This is a Pioneer option to correct volume differences in different sources...

[pintorulz]

when ever i put a cd in it might play for like 30 seconds or so then the sound level would go down noticeably and then it would come up and then down again and it keeps doing this all the time!!!

[destrukshn]

yeah on the pioneer units, usually the more upper range.
there's an option, that if it detects more noise the volume will go up or down if there is less surrounding noise.

[jay-bee'z]

You should (well i do) notice sound drops from my pioneer deck, when brake at a set of lights, and then it will increase volume again once i start moving again, due to the Sound Level Adjuster which is like an automatic thing that detects road noise and what not, and compensates automatically by increasing the volume etc.

I had this turned on, but then if u go into options, i turned it down low, (less sensetive) so now it basically stays the same volume now all the time regardless of road noise.

Try that, also a tip, if its turned on, and have a basic display on (eg. not a screensaver) u will see like a little speaker icon thingy, and as it "works its magic" you will notice it increase more bars = more volume, then when you brake and stop at lights it will go back down.

[pintorulz]

hey guys....

just a update on my audio install
first of all thanks for all ur help on here... i sucessfully installed the two amps togather hooked it up with a power distributor block and its pumping hard. i think i hooked up the wires wrong to start off with when i was testing the amp for it to go into protection otherwise today when i hooked everything up it was perfect....

I cant find the sound level adjuster on the Pioneer 7750 do u know where it is located and how i can get to it in the menu???
Thanks again Guys