Right Front Speaker Clipping

[treshebert]

I installed a Kicker Key 200.4 yesterday. I took it for a drive today and noticed the front right tweeter wasn't working anymore and the right front door speaker will start clipping at certain volumes. If the left for speaker is clipping, it's worse on the right to where I don't notice it. Here's my set up:

Kicker Key 200.4

High Pass Filter is set to OFF because I installed passive crossovers and replaced front door speakers/tweeters with Kickers using a shared input (Factory Tweeters had built in crossover). I have installed crossovers in one of the rear doors so far but not the other. (I will eventually get to the other and add tweeters as well) The stock rear door speakers both sound great despite this. Other settings for the amp are Compression On, Kicker EQ On, Bi Amp Off, Fader On.

I tried disabling the ACM settings mentioned in other posts (Line Level/Factory EQ) but it sounded terrible.

Does anyone have any ideas about what the problem could be and why it's just the right? All connections are solid, polarity verified also.

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[9zero1790]

I installed a Kicker Key 200.4 yesterday. I took it for a drive today and noticed the front right tweeter wasn't working anymore and the right front door speaker will start clipping at certain volumes. If the left for speaker is clipping, it's worse on the right to where I don't notice it. Here's my set up:

Kicker Key 200.4

High Pass Filter is set to OFF because I installed passive crossovers and replaced front door speakers/tweeters with Kickers using a shared input (Factory Tweeters had built in crossover). I have installed crossovers in one of the rear doors so far but not the other. (I will eventually get to the other and add tweeters as well) The stock rear door speakers both sound great despite this. Other settings for the amp are Compression On, Kicker EQ On, Bi Amp Off, Fader On.

I tried disabling the ACM settings mentioned in other posts (Line Level/Factory EQ) but it sounded terrible.

Does anyone have any ideas about what the problem could be and why it's just the right? All connections are solid, polarity verified also.

could be a wire issue, since it started with one tweet going silent. maybe a bad termination on that side. also check the voltage at the amp with it running and see if the amp feels warm. it sounds like it may be overheating and clipping / going to protect mode. does the amp have plenty of breathing room? is the load the amp sees correct for it and balanced? in your description you mentioned one side had a crossover and one did not or something like that. that may be making the amp very unhappy.

 

[treshebert]

That's in the rear which are both individual inputs and they sound fine. I'll check the load but I don't understand why it would only be one quadrant that's an issue if that was the problem.

 

[brohammer619]

I installed a Kicker Key 200.4 yesterday. I took it for a drive today and noticed the front right tweeter wasn't working anymore and the right front door speaker will start clipping at certain volumes. If the left for speaker is clipping, it's worse on the right to where I don't notice it. Here's my set up:

Kicker Key 200.4

High Pass Filter is set to OFF because I installed passive crossovers and replaced front door speakers/tweeters with Kickers using a shared input (Factory Tweeters had built in crossover). I have installed crossovers in one of the rear doors so far but not the other. (I will eventually get to the other and add tweeters as well) The stock rear door speakers both sound great despite this. Other settings for the amp are Compression On, Kicker EQ On, Bi Amp Off, Fader On.

I tried disabling the ACM settings mentioned in other posts (Line Level/Factory EQ) but it sounded terrible.

Does anyone have any ideas about what the problem could be and why it's just the right? All connections are solid, polarity verified also.

Did you set your gains properly?

 

[treshebert]

Yes, they were actually all the way down. I turned the fader on the Kicker to the off position, disabled system EQ and line level in Forscan again and was able to increase the gain without issues at 80% volume. It sounds better than it did before. The only thing I haven't done is the auto-tuning because I don't have the mic.

It's only the right door though, I am convinced it's the speaker itself. The dust cap has been depressed not sure if that would cause it. I swapped out crossovers and that wasn't it but the tweeter did work temporarily and now doesn't again.

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