My car's audio system will play perfect until I turn my subwoofers up then it skips and cuts out?

Question

I just had the battery replaced in my 2002 Chevy Blazer. Now I can play the front and rear speakers with no problems but when I turn up the subwoofers my deck skips/cuts out and won't play constant.

This problem was not happening before with the old battery.

My system consists of;
1. Yellow Top Optima battery
2. 2 XS100 Kicker amps
3. 2 Kicker 15" solo X's
4. Alpine "R" series fronts and rears
5. MTX 100x4 amp
6. Pheonix Gold Bass Cube
7. Kicker remote gain.
8. Eclipse head unit

The battery gauge barely even moves when I put power to the subs so I don't think that it is drained but could there be a dead cell?

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Sound like too much bass man. You need to somehow stabilize your head unit, does it only happen with CD's or with everything(if everything you probably have a bad connection somewhere)? More than likely you just need to somehow mount your cd player a little better so all that BOOM doesn't cause it to skip, remember you are basically sitting in a giant box (your blazer) with two 15" subs, thats gonna cause alot of vibrations man. I use to have the same problem (2) 12" subs in my Dakota, I just had to mount my head unit better and the problems dissapear. Or just modernize yourself, ditch the cd's and get a MP3 player and use that instead, Its way better In my opinion.

Answer 2

Mullet is correct.

First try playing in on radio and seeing if it skips...that is a sign of too much vibration making your cd player skip. If this is the case you need to check the mounting or use some vibration dampening around that area.

If it is cutting out even then...you will probably want to check your connections throughout your wiring setup something may be loose or shorting out.

Hopefully it is the first possibility because the 2nd will be a PITA to fix.

Answer 3

Try turning the gain to a higher number. You may have the gain set too low with the new battery supplying the "correct" power of the HU. If this doesn't solve the problem put it back exactly where it was and try the other suggestions.

Answer 4

check your groundwire, make sure it isn't touching anything. It could also be diverting power from your CD player to your subs... try turning down the volume. I don't know why that makes any difference, but I assume it has something to do with the charge going to the speakers and subwoofer to make a louder sound. Again, just check that your groundwire isn't touching anything.

Answer 5

is it possible that the new battery is not able to put out as much power as your old one

Answer 6

Sounds like you need a capacitor.