My Rockford T1 sounded better with a shitty amp? What gives?

deep1ca · Post by **deep1ca** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:36 am

I'll start of by saying I don't really know much about car audio, my friends usually help me.

So i bought a rockford fosgate 10'' T1 on ebay, its rated 600rms at 2ohms. It came in and I didn't have an amp so I tested it in my buddies car with his 250rms 2ohms sony amp. It wasn't that loud but it was clean and deep sounding bass.

Fast forward 2 weeks and I buy a MTX 81000D class D amp rated at 1000watts RMS. Yeah its alot more then I need but I got a great deal, i figured i'd just keep the gain turned down.

So i hooked it up and heres where the confusion started... it turned out to be only a little louder then when wired with a sony amp that had 1/4 the power, but sound quality is terrible. I tested it again with the sony amp and same results, with the sony amp its almost as loud, but sound quality is great.

What gives?

Maybe i'm just getting ahead of myself since I havn't really spent much time trying to tune the deck and the amp. Gonna spend some time attempting to tune it later today, will keep you posted...but untill then, wtf?

Jeremy M · Post by **Jeremy M** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:55 pm

what deck do u have? and what deck did he have?

slow2.0ts13 · Post by **slow2.0ts13** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:34 am

deck, ohms, as well as wiring could all be issues. get a multimeter

Craz1000 · Post by **Craz1000** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:00 pm

things we have to know
what is the impedance of each coil on that T1.. theres 2 models
what fuses you have on that MTX
how many channels is the MTX

what were the fuses, channels on your buddies sony

what power/ ground wires were used on both tests