Zerostatic

I hear a pop coming from my solo 12 inch sub (which is connected to a mono amp)

I hear it in the following conditions
When the volume transistions from 1 to 0, or from 0 to 1
When I'm listening to the radio and I go from one of my preselects to another (i.e. during that momentary pause)
When I switch sources (i.e. go from radio to CD and vice-versa), (again during that momentary pause)

From a couple of searches I've done I've seen people have similar problems and they called it turn-on and turn-off pop, and it happens when the headunit signal shuts off before the amp or when the amp turns on before the headunit has a chance to turn on.

1) Does this sound like what i have?
2) I saw some turn-on and turn-off pop eliminators for sale on a couple of sites. Would this do the trick? (I read that you can make them to but I'd rather buy them already made, they're pretty cheap).
3) Could it be anything else, I don't want to spend money and time getting those eliminators and find out that they don't fix the problem.
4) Does it seem wierd that I'm having these problems now because I have a pioneer HU, a pioneer Amp, and a Pioneer Sub. I would think Pioneer would engineer their parts so at least they'd work together? Also I had a previous set-up with the same HU and a JBL amp and a pair of smaller Pioneer subs and I never had these issues before

elduderino

1) Your pop is not happening with turn on or off, so technically it's not turn on pop. The turn on pop widgets turn the various units on later. That won't help you in this instance.

2) This sounds more like a grounding issue. I would run a ground wire from the HU ground all the way back to the amp ground terminal as a test and see if it helps.

3) Your sig says you have JBL amps...

4) It could be the HU going out, but I suspect a deteriorating ground situation on the HU.

5) THe install has 90% to do with it, the design 10%.

Zerostatic

yeah, I had my old amps and subs stolen, and I just got these installed.

msdosp1mp

definatly a ground problem, i had this before on my old setup. if you take a piece of wire and solder it to one of the rca's on the outer connector part, and then ground that, the problem should go away if you have a ground problem

elduderino

THat's a very kludgy way to fix it.

Better to check the ground ofthe amp and the ground of the HU.

dark inspire

is that even a word?




I think thats close enough?