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Nice post man.. but what are all the cables I need to buy, I found these 2-channel audio interconnect cable but I don't know if I need that. Also a couple people told me that walmart has kits with everything uou need, I guess ill need to check that out
so you ran speaker wire with these connectors? did it not have to be shielded or anything?
Yeah, I tapped into the same wires mentioned in the DIY with solder onto speaker cable. then soldered this RCA connector onto the other end of the speaker cable. then connected the RCA Y-splitter and into the back of the amp.
The 16 guage speaker cable soldered to a quasi-gold plated RCA connector has better conductivity than anything coming from Monster Cable or anyone else, lol. you just have to take your time so that the leads don't touch each other. It's not too difficult.
EDIT: about shielding: as long as you aren't running the length of cable parallel to a power conductor, you are fine without shielding. Since this tapped cable comes from the oposite side of the car (left where the bose amp is) than where my power wire was run (along the right side of the car from battery), they never get close enough to each other to cause any problems.
I'm a little confused with your install, you tapped wire to the speaker leads coming from the factory amp to a RCA jack then plugged it into the amp???
and if you did why? and why not use a line converter?
I'm a little confused with your install, you tapped wire to the speaker leads coming from the factory amp to a RCA jack then plugged it into the amp???
and if you did why? and why not use a line converter?
the JL amp has a line converter built in... why spend more money?
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