Car Audio

[crowMAW]

As others have said sounds like a ground problem.  Depending on your setup, a ground loop isolator can eliminate the noise.  You can get them from Radio Shack.

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by Lazer


Any ideas??

Rip out the cat, put three inch pipes on it and you wont even notice the static.

[Steve]

BTW, Nuke used to install car audio professionally, his family owned a shop here in the PHX area.  He has done all the installs w/ me on my vehicles.  I have a ground thumping system in my 'vette that he and I installed.  It developed some ignition noise... we finally narrowed it down to a bad coil.

If you haven't tuned up your vehicle  in a while, now is a good time.  Old ignintion parts can cause spark noise regardless of how solid your install is.


Good luck!

[Lazer]

Thanks.. Im going to go try and snip that ground wire now and give it a shot.

As far as that "cat" goes... lol you don't want to know
Have a hole that covers the entire underside of it.

[capt. apathy]

Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Rip out the cat, put three inch pipes on it and you wont even notice the static.

my kid uses the revers approach, with that new amp you can hardly hear the odd noises coming from the engine.

[rpm]

http://www.radioshack.com/category.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F007%5F002%5F004%5F000&Page=1
Most likely it's alternator whine.

[Steve]

Noise filters, ground loop isolators, voodoo and human sacrifices.  NONE of this will eliminate spark/ignition noise if the wires, coil, plugs etc need changing.

[Lazer]

It only does it with certain CD's though....??

Seems to get better when bass is turned down too... But I really don't understand why some CD's do it and some don't...?

[Lazer]

nothing???

[Steve]

Lazer, I could address this but I'm sure Nuke will look at this thread when he can.  He's a wizard at this stuff so I'll let him guide you.

[Lazer]

Sounds good... just doesn't click for me why it plays static on random CD's.