Hooking up a subwoofer
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Hooking up a subwoofer
Ok so I have an amp and subwoofers that I want to put into my car but I am still a little confused on how I should go about this. I read the sticky on here but I am still left with some questions. Here are my questions:
1. Does the output to the speakers from the bose amp, is that a positive and negative line, like normal everyday speakers?
2. When I tap into the line to get RCAs out of it to plug into my amp, am I tapping into the wiring harness before it goes to the amp, or am I tapping into the lines that come out of the amp and go to the speakers?
3. I have this amp will this work with just a simple LOC? Or do I need a LOC capable of changing the output to single ended output (or whatever its called.)
I am sort of confused on how I should go about this but I am going to give it a shot this week. If anyone has AIM or something and want to help me out a bit that would be great. My name on AIM is HockeyZlife85.
Thank you!
1. Does the output to the speakers from the bose amp, is that a positive and negative line, like normal everyday speakers?
2. When I tap into the line to get RCAs out of it to plug into my amp, am I tapping into the wiring harness before it goes to the amp, or am I tapping into the lines that come out of the amp and go to the speakers?
3. I have this amp will this work with just a simple LOC? Or do I need a LOC capable of changing the output to single ended output (or whatever its called.)
I am sort of confused on how I should go about this but I am going to give it a shot this week. If anyone has AIM or something and want to help me out a bit that would be great. My name on AIM is HockeyZlife85.
Thank you!
The wires from the bose amp are regular positive negative speaker wires.
If you're only adding a sub and amp you won't need those anyway. You'll be running new speaker wires from your new amp to your sub.
The signal wires you tap into should be connected before the wire goes into the Bose amp. You want the signal to go to your new amp.
If you're only adding a sub and amp you won't need those anyway. You'll be running new speaker wires from your new amp to your sub.
The signal wires you tap into should be connected before the wire goes into the Bose amp. You want the signal to go to your new amp.
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if your new to this i would recomend having someone do the install for you since our cars have a factory bose amp its kinda complecated you need to get a low input from the factory amp that would be the signal coming from the radio if you got it from any of the speakers like most cars are your input to the aftermarket amp will be do high and you would get good sound.
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Ok so I have done a lot more reading and I talked to the people who made my amp and the told me that the amp will work fine with accepting those signals. Only problem that I have now is I am still kind of confused on how the wiring goes. I read the tutorial and it never tells you if you are hooking into the wiring coming out of the amp or going into the amp. For instance do you hook into the wiring between the HU and the amp or between the amp and speakers (or speaker) This is really my only main question before I go ahead and do this. If I am hooking into the wiring before the amp which wires am I going to be hooking into?
Thank you.
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