Ok so I recently just bought two alpine type r's that came with a 2400 watt pyle amp and capacitor. It was all used. I used the wires from a different setup that I had before which I used 8 gauge wire for and was disapointed when I got the new setup hooked up because it wasn't muchlouder than the stock sub which I still have hooked up. I used an rca converter that I wired up to the rear speakers. So after talking to some people I went and bought some 0 gauge wire because 8 gauge clearly wasnt cutting it. Hooked it up the other day and it's still not loud even with the gain and level up all the way up on teh 2400 watt amp. The subs work but they're not loud at all for 2 10" subs with a 2400 watt amp. I have one or two theories about why. Either the amp is a piece of **** or I'm thinking that maybe since the car has a stock 10" sub that not as much bass goes through the rear speakers which is where i'm getting my sound from. My friend has a g5 gt which is the same stereo and he had the same problem as me when he installed subs. They were weak as **** even though they were a good setup so he took them out. Should I or can I tap into the stock subwoofer for signal? I'm still running my stock setup and want to use an rca converter instead of aftermarket head unit.

Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? It should definitely be at least twice as loud as it is now.

 

If anyone has experience hooking up an aftermarket sub and amp while still using the stock system please chime in. Thanks

 

id try running the LOC from the subwoofer wires then disconnect the stock sub as you wont hear it anyways

 

Put in an aftermarket radio and those should pound. RCA convertors are POS. And your stock sytem will still be hooked up and usable. On mine I turn sunwoofers off thru my deck and then it's just stock sytem running, including the the stock sub. Only the aftermarket subs are off.

 

I have a 1600 watt kicker amp with 2 12" kicker comps and I'm still using the stock sub and it hits pretty hard

 

Did you mess with the level adjusment screws on the converter? It should have 2 L & R you might have to split it apart to get to them..

 

that amp sounds like its garbage, it sounds like 2400 peak, Im guessing the RMS is quite low. Also I've run my loc from both the sub and the rear speakers and got similar results both times.
2 12" type R's with 1200 rms amp and they hit pretty hard for a l o c

 

Yes you should connect it to the stock sub but thats not the problem... disconnect one fo the 2 rcas into the amp leaving just one and tell me what happens

 

No i didnt even know the rca converter had level adjustments.

 

I need to reconnect the power before I do this but when I was installing it I played with those a lot and different combos made it louder but the loudest one still wasnt loud. With just one cable in im pretty sure that both speakers were still on but just werent loud. Ill check though

 

PLA3000D - Red Elite 2400 Watt Class-D Mono Block Mosfet Digital Amplifier Pyleaudio.com ::: Your source for Car Audio, Mobile Video, Neon Lighting this is the amp im using.

 

not a great amp to be honest, but connect the LOC wires to the stock sub wires and i think what emp was getting at is to make sure that both the subs are working, if they are in the same box and one sub works, it will still cause the other sub to move even if it is not playing anything