When I hook up my ipod to the speaker, its not loud

Hi, With my sound engineers hat on I would use a small PA. mixer, amp and speakers!!!!
For quality you need a full, flat frequency range system with good headroom.
I assume this is for your own listening, when using an acoustic kit?
There are one box solutions.

1. Drum amps. Like a monitor wedge with an amp, Roland do a PM-10, Various other makes are available.
2. General purpose powered wedge.
3. Keyboard Amp, these are full range and available in various sizes.
4. Bass amp with high frequency driver (tweeter), not the best but will have good bottom end.
5. Powered or active speaker, much like a powered wedge, but a different shape, needs an input volume control.

All these systems need to have large bass units, 10 inch minimum, and will be in mono. Two will give you stereo,
How loud depends primarily on the sensitivity of the speaker. But manufactures insist on selling things by power. Worth looking this up.
At a couple of feet away, 20 watts should do it, with high sensitivity speakers, more likely you find most things as above start at about 70 Watts.
Good luck, I hope I have widened you choices a bit.
All the best, Chris the Fader.

The signal path to follow is explained below:

*Audio Source(Cd/LapTop/Ipod)output to,
*Numark 5000FX Input, Then master/main outputs go to,
*Behringer FBQ1502 Inputs, then outputs go to,
*Pro600 Power Amplifier Inputs, then power amp outputs hooked up with a speaker each side.

Hope this helps.

Most ipods that I have seen all have the same cord. Keep in mind that some things will work with any cord, as long as it fits. At your own risk.

These are rated peak 600 Watts... your amp should NOT be bigger than 200 Watts RMS per speaker cabinet driving these to prevent burning out the speakers. The pop MAY have driven the speakers to full excursion and temporarily shorted the speaker voice coil. Test the DC resistance of the speaker... if you find it is under about 3.7 ohms you have damaged the speakers and continued use may damage your amplifier.. Often people will unplug a guitar cable causing a loud pop in the PA system and that CAN damage the speakers if the amp is too big.

Cease using the mixer until it is repaired. One or both of the amps have blown. Further use MAY result in power supply damage. 1 to 6 switching power transistors will have blown and often a Zener diode or two. If the metering resistors smoked, there will be two small surface mounted transistors per channel blown wide open as well. These are all in the HCA2400 amplifier module.

It is likely that there is a failure of one of the amps in the unit. It could be a cracked circuit board, bad solder, bad volume control, or a bad compnent in the power amp section for one side. HOWEVER something does NOT compute here as you can't connect more than one speaker to a 15 Watt Crate amp... Maybe you have two of these amps.

try hooking headphones to the output and see if the crackling is still there.

then, try it with the speakers, at a lower computer voume level and higher speaker volume level. perhaps the headphone output is too loud and distorting in the speaker inputs.

These can develop around 500 Wattts or so into speakerss that are 4 ohm.

If your speakers are 8 ohm the max power to each is around 250 Watts.

The efficiency of your speakers may reduce the loudness . The power rating of your speakers really has nothing to do with the loudness, only the power that can safely be sent to the speaker.

Hi there. With speaker disconnected. use an ohm meter to check the continuity of the speaker voice coil. (speaker terminals) Should be 1 to 3 ohm. If no continuity, bad speaker voice coil.
Thanks
Paul

You can try Loud Technologies @ 866-858-5832, [email protected].

They hooked me up with parts and schematic for my Crate G212XL.