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Old Oct 4, 2004 | 01:39 PM
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Is my amp dead?

hey guys...


alright well I have a 12" MTX 6000, Pyle MP3/CD player, and a 400w Power Acoustik 2 channel amp. I just bought the sub recently, and the amp is pretty old.

So recently, when I start my car and my CD player turns on, you can hear the sub kinda vibrating.....and it continues throughout the songs....and even when I pause it, it like vibrates a lil bit and sounds kinda like a distant helicopter :/

So when this happens, I wiggle the cd deck and I take out the RCA wires from the amp and put them back. This works almost every single time, and the noice goes away til the next time I start my car.

Well I was on my way home from hockey a couple days ago, and it started making the noice so I wiggled the CD deck and the sub just stopped making noice all together. I thought maybe I blew the fuse to my amp, but it looked fine.

So after I got home, I checked all my connections...sanded my ground clean, and checked all my fuses. Everything looked fine...

My friend ended up comin over and we hooked up his amp to my car and it didn't work either. So after we took his out, I checked my big red 50A fuse on my wiring kit battery cable. It was blown so I assumed this is what was wrong.

Today I replaced it with a 60A (because they didn't have 50A at autozone). Nothing changed. So maybe when I hooked his amp up, it blew the fuse? hmm

But anyways, I am very stumped because I hooked up my sub to my friends home audio system thing, and it played perfectly fine. I replaced the RCA wires too. Also, my power bulb to the amp goes on everytime I turn the CD player on, like it should.

Sorry for this being so long but I'm really stumped so if anyone has any idea's, I'd really appreciate it

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Old Oct 4, 2004 | 10:55 PM
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