What level do you “jam” the factory radio?

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55+

 

Put a JL Audio 8” subwoofer w RFosgate amp for some thump behind the driver’s seat, dialed down the base on OEM head unit. I can drive 65 and hear my music with windows down, 35 to 40 setting..Yes, I’m old... Been there with earth shaking music, protect your hearing.. ‘Nuff said.

 

That’s not how that works. Example:

Amp puts out 50w. Speakers rated for 120w. No way that amp can blow those speakers right? Wrong.

Speakers blow from distortion, which is a square wave. Amps send square waves when they’re distorting, which speakers cannot reproduce. The square waves rip apart a speaker because the vibrations are too abrupt, rather than wavy and gentle, they are all-or-nothing and the speaker can’t react fast enough. You end up destroying the speaker because it’s trying to make impossible sounds in essence.

much better to have more powerful amp driving speakers that are a little below or a match for the power handling.

 

You're a little late to correct me, but thank you for the more in depth correction.

 

too many members man. Start thread ——> wait 5 minutes ———> thread is now 7 pages.

And 5 of those pages will be about unrelated nonsense. LoL

 

I assume you had the JBL before?
Seems like the JBL is louder than the non-JBL one because anything below 15 for me is quieter than the truck itself on the highway. That, and no one with the JBL seems to go past 40, and 40 isn't THAT loud on the non-JBL.

 

Nah, I had the non-JBL. I did usually bump it up closer to 20 on the highway because of road noise but even still. 20 was and still is relatively loud for me. I also had and still have the auto volume adjust turned off. By default the head unit will increase volume at speed (behind the scenes, not the actual volume number) to combat road noise.

 

I’m usually between 35-40 with a little extra bass and treble.

 

Lol I think this answers my question about how it slaps

 

I don't think I've gone above 30. I think 20-25ish was fairly loud on my previous car's stereo and I've got some kind of mental block about cranking "the number" too high.

 

I have the JBL, it’s very clean. I blast it 90+%. Must resist upgrading....but it sounds great.