Miata Mailing List: January 1995, Message #125
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   From: kenw@netaxs.com (Ken Warren)
Subject: Re: Clearwater door speakers - review
   Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 21:30:32 -0500

At 11:21 AM 1/1/95 -0500, Doug Klein wrote:

>The door speakers have excellent base response, and with the amp you get
>the necessary volume for top down motoring. (Especially essential when
>cranking George Thorougood (sp?) on a back road in the summer time :).
>
>Only issue I've had with the amp, but never bothered to call Clearwater
>about, is a loud 'pop' when you turn the radio on and off. It's a little
>annoying, and I should probably do something about it, (since I have to
>assume this is not suppose to happen). Any one on the list have any
>experience with this? Ideas on what I should do to fix it?

The turn-off pop is inherent to the amp design, I'm afraid. *Any* amp that 
takes speaker-level inputs is going to have a potential for this. The easy 
way to get rid of it is to turn the stereo all the way down, but not off, or 
to only turn it off when you first start the car. The hard way is to filter 
it out, at a cost of around $100, I think, plus your time installing the 
filters.

Me, I just don't turn the stereo off very much. 
--
Ken
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           Ken Warren               E-Mail: kenw@netaxs.com
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