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I've had a single high power AS+ W3 with a single 1/4 wave antenna that I've been using for over a year with little to no issues. I decided to add a high power UHF AS+ W3 last night. The audio previously has been top notch. When I finished this morning; I removed the old Motorola cellular type rectangle box speaker that I'd been using and replaced it with two very nice speakers from a flat screen TV (8 Ohm) that had produced terrific quality sound before I killed the TV. I figured that audio would be fantastic. I've never heard anything worse in my life. The volume was low, and when raised to the max, sounded worse than a 1960's era AM transistor radio - only louder.

I quickly replaced them with a nice set of Pyle 4 ohm speakers and the results were the same or worse. Both radios, harnesses, etc. are exactly the same. The only difference is that I'm using a Comet antenna combiner rated at 500 watts per radio, and a Diamond dual band antenna that I'd used before I installed the second radio. Range certainly isn't an issue because I'm hearing armature stations from 55+ miles away easily - just horrible audio. All of the local PD traffic is coming through, but the audio is horrible. What have I done??? I've always used Motorola speakers, but space is a big issue here.

I haven't changed any of the audio settings in the VHF, so that couldn't be an issue.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!