bmcc49er

Stereo sounds great but when I go up past 22 the distortion starts and i can't clear it to my liking. I have a Memphis MCA2004 amp 50x4 I believe. Just wodnering if the more powerful amp is what clears the distortion. I am pretty sure the Memphis 6 1/2 components in the door and the memphis 6x9 coaxials can handle it.

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No, a speaker distorts when something causes it to distort. It is not a speaker issue, it is a incorrect gain setting on the amp or a really poorly clipped signal coming from headunit. Post more info please, such as the hedunit etc...... The gain control is not a volume control, it is designed to be turned down and not turned up. If louder is what you seek, then a amplifier of double the size is what you need, however, this will still send a clipped signal to the speakers to be reproduced as distortion if the gains are incorrectly set or the signal coming into the amp is clipped.

bmcc49er

The head unit is the stock one for the 8. 6 cd non Bose. Not sure what you mean by clipped. Something I could adjust without taking everything apart?

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Here is a simple way to understand clipping. We all know that a engine has a redline. Bad things happen when you take the engine above redline. The stereo also has a redline. Below it all is well, above it and you get clipping which is heard as distortion. A speaker does not distort all on it's own, something causes it. 99% of the time it is because the gain control on the amplifier is set too high, turn the gain down and see how it sounds. The more you use the bass setting on a cd player, the sooner that the clipping will occur, the same thing goes for really bass heavy songs recorded onto cd's. If the source material is saturated with clipped signals (and more of them are every day), the source material can be the starting point, it is then a downhill spiral from there. How is the amplifier hooked into the cd player?

bmcc49er

Thanks, I will look at it. The amp is mounted above my spare tire and there is no bass gain up front. Perhaps I have to tune it on the amp?