Alright so my brother blew the whatever it was in his Pio, so now it's whining like crazy. I did it too like 2 years ago on my old pio and had to to send it back to pio for warranty. his isn't under warranty and the closest service center wants like 175 to fix it. it's the avic-d1 so he's for sure getting it fixed. anyone know of anyone reliable who could fix it for cheaper or should he just pull the trigger.
Haha, out of all the times M.S. gets bashed and made fun of this is one of those times where I wouldn't join in on the fun. Pioneer really needs to step up their game when it comes to their RCA outputs especially when you consider the amount of money people are spending on these high end head units only to pull them out just to ground the RCAs. That's not cool at all. I'd personally go with an Alpine or a JVC HU if I were to buy a new one more than likely if the Pioneer didn't surpass the other offerings substantially. I'd ground the RCAs though before installing any Pioneer HU before letting it become a nuisance.
unfortunately, they really do make great units IMO other than this well....major reoccuring problem. again IMO, very user friendly and good looking, as well as decently priced.
wait so, if someone could really give me a full step by step walk through on how to fix it, that'd be awesome.
so just use a little selftapping screw to ground the white rca to the cage of the HU?? obviously be extremely careful.
heres the problem. the whining is coming out of the stock monsoon system. the only rca outputs being used are for the sub amp he just put in. will grounding the rca's for the subwoofer effect anything?
Nope, this isnt the problem then. Maybe the harness to the monsoon system has a problem. I doubt grounding the rca's in this instance will make any difference.
sounds like you've got a signal problem somewhere though.
Swap out the current rca cables themselves. They could have a bad ground, and when that happens the shielding is severely minimized. They could also be thin gauge wire with cheap shielding and/or they are sitting near something they shouldn't be. Installers generally use cheaper no-name rca cables so I bet that's where your problem is. 75% shield long run rca's are certain doom.
Brad, thats not the problem. The only RCA's in his system are running to the subs. The noise is coming from the high's, which are ran by a factory amplifier that has been integrated to the Pioneer's output.
I think there may be a problem somewhere between the factory Monsoon amp and the Pioneer's output's.
Without being there i can't really give you much help buddy.
Why not support your local audio shop n give them a few bucks to track down the problem...bout the only suggestion worth listenin to I can give ya, sorry bud :/
thow a ground loop on the rcas and see if it helps. try it at the beginning and the end of the rcas. also reground the HU and amp. even try swapping the rcas as Brad said. You have a bad ground somewhere, or the HU is messed up.
Hahaha all the people who hate on me are probably pioneer HU owners who don't want to admit that their beloved pioneers RCAs do, in fact, suck big donkey d!ck.
For a company as big as pionner that sells so many HUs, having a failure rate as high as they do is simply not acceptable at all.
