Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works but a headache

I bought the lcq1 from sonic and installed it myself. It works great and does give great sound quality besides the fact that there will be a slight hiss in the system. This was my second unit and it still had the hiss. I talked to both sonic and audiocontrol and both were great and gave me many solutions but unfortunately none of them were able to rid of it. I've spent so many hours trying get rid of it by trying multiple different wiring configurations and nothing worked. My gains were very low and the hiss was still there. The only way to get it almost gone was to have the gains and output on the lcq1 all the way down. When I did, it was still there but very subtle. And at that point, your music is quieter than it was just running off of stock power. I also tried ground loop idolaters and noise filters and they did nothing. I have a 4 channel and a mono with a sub hooked up to it and tested both amps with the lcq1 not hooked up in the loop, no hiss. I listen to music pretty loud when I'm in the car so I don't really hear it when I'm cruising but when the music is at a very low volume, you can hear the hiss. Especially when I went to a drive in, it was very annoying. In my situation, there's no dash kit available for an aftermarket headunit for my car so I'm using this. If you can, I would opt to just get an aftermarket headunit

By John on July 27, 2016 Verified purchase