2017 Toyota 86. Focal Utopia M, Audiofrog GB, Mosconi Zero
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Hey everyone, I'm having an issue with my midranges and I need some extra brains on the case.
I'm getting distortion from an unknown source through my midranges at any volume. It scales with the music being played. Most noticable with instruments like pianos and guitars when playing alone. It's easily masked with other instruments, but it is still very noticable on many songs. Sort of sounds like clipping, but it is still noticable until it becomes too quiet to hear and at that point the song is also nearly too quiet to hear as well. The strange part is that the distortion is only in the higher octaves that the speaker is playing.
All of my gains are set very conservativly, and I have more power on tap than I can use before my ears would bleed. My gains are set to use my volume up to 3/4 on the headunit. I am only using +3db eq in the helix, but had the issue with previous tune using no boosts. Music is coming from Android auto and tidal.
If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them even if they are spitballing. Thanks guys!
I'm getting distortion from an unknown source through my midranges at any volume. It scales with the music being played. Most noticable with instruments like pianos and guitars when playing alone. It's easily masked with other instruments, but it is still very noticable on many songs. Sort of sounds like clipping, but it is still noticable until it becomes too quiet to hear and at that point the song is also nearly too quiet to hear as well. The strange part is that the distortion is only in the higher octaves that the speaker is playing.
All of my gains are set very conservativly, and I have more power on tap than I can use before my ears would bleed. My gains are set to use my volume up to 3/4 on the headunit. I am only using +3db eq in the helix, but had the issue with previous tune using no boosts. Music is coming from Android auto and tidal.
- So far I have checked for distortion in the songs using headphones and my home system, so that is ruled out.
- I've moved my crossovers up while listening to see if it due to playing them too low. Did nothing until the crossover was set at 2.5k when it began to disappear.
- I've swept a high cut eq band through the entire range to see if it was clipping from too much power anywhere. Didn't help.
- Made the baffle more sturdy and sealed everything with butyl to make sure it wasn't a leak. No change.
If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them even if they are spitballing. Thanks guys!