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Originally posted by Devedander
Is it bad for subs to be played in reverse? Wouldn't it be bad to hook up pos to neg and vice versa?
Also in my manual the description of ASL is that as you drive road noise and backgroudn noise can get in the way, ASL will automatically adjust volume to compensate.
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No to first question, "yes" to second...
First, + and - are not the same like on a battery. On a subwoofer, this only gives you instructions on how to connect the woofer for the proper ohm load and such. Since a "voice coil" is just that, a SINGLE coil with ONE starting point which continues, wraps around the "pole" piece and then out the other end (negative) this just tells you how to hook it up for normal phase... when you reverse this, you simple send power up the other direction -- not harmfull to your woofer. This is known as out of phase... you usually do this in subwoofer setups where one woofer is mounted normally, and then another woofer is mounted inverted and then wired "out of phase" to match it upto the other woofer...
ASL will increase radio volume as road noise increases.... jump on the highway, going 80 mph... its differant then cruising a city street at 35... personally this is a "lazy man" feature -- never liked it.