I am hooking up a new head unit and amplifier. The diagrams show hooking speakers up the the head unit or the amp but not both. I want to be able have the same speakers play music with just the head unit on or also with the amp on. Do I just connect the positive and negative wires for a speaker from the head and the amp together?
Thanks A bunch DG
you can not hook up the speakers to the head unit and the amp at the same time, you will have problems.
there might be a unit that allows you to plug in to it with the deck on on channel and the amp on another and you can use the unit to switch between the two but this would require extra speaker wiring.
i would just say use the amp cause the amp will sound better, and other then using less power the decks power has no advantages.
george u buy a clue, you missed the question and all so missed the fact that damage or bad sounds could happen if both the deck and amp are wired together.
im not a professional by any means, but that sounds crazy.. just hook up a remote wire to your amp, run the speakers off the amp and leave it be. Not sure why you want sound from the deck and the amp at the same time.. one of the craziest questions ive ran across yet. good luck with that, if you run it the way you mentioned you take a good risk of blowing something
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Smashedz, go buy a clue somewhere. To get any sound from the speakers the head unit has to send the signal to something, like the amp, so the amp has to be connected to the stereo.
If your stereo does not have pre amp outs, then you have to use the high level connection on the amp, if their is one, not all have them. Other wise you have to use LOC’s (line out converters) and connect them at the back of the stereo for the speakers and then run rca wires from that to the amp. Other wise you will have to wire them directly to the stereo without the amp.
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you can not hook up the speakers to the head unit and the amp at the same time, you will have problems.
there might be a unit that allows you to plug in to it with the deck on on channel and the amp on another and you can use the unit to switch between the two but this would require extra speaker wiring.
i would just say use the amp cause the amp will sound better, and other then using less power the decks power has no advantages.
george u buy a clue, you missed the question and all so missed the fact that damage or bad sounds could happen if both the deck and amp are wired together.
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