RE: Audio gurus: help (long)

["Daniel Snow" <res00v06@gte.net>]

OK, here's my $.01:

(I apologize, I haven't looked at the urls for your amp & head unit, so some
of this might be bunk)

<SniP>
However, does this mean that my sub woofer will only be powered by the
headunit, and no longer by the amp?
<UnsniP>
NO, see below*

<SniP>
If I plug the amp into the rear preamp output, I am sure I can get
the sub and the rear speakers running off my 1 amp, but I don't know
if I'll be able to run the nifty sub woofer volume feature on the head
unit.  No big deal though if that's the case.
<UnsniP>
No, you wouldn't be able to use the sub feature (I'd set it up to use it
though if I were you [$.02])

<SniP>
Anyone familiar with the headunit and how to wire it up w/ 1 amp and
get it to run the subwoofer and rear speakers, AND get to use all the
features?
<UnsniP>
If you're really not worried about the sub feature, then just wire it up
like you had it before, using the rear preamp out as the input for your amp
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Dan's comments:
It sounds like you've got a pretty good head unit, so you should have at
least 40+W per channel for your four main output wires.

The way I have mine wired is as such-
front/rear // left/right all straight off the head unit (45W/channel)
preamp goes out to the amp (400W) for the 15's

Now,
you can either use the amp just for your subs, and run straight off the head
for your other speakers (which you didn't want to do)
or,
you might have to invest another $50~ on a used amp in the 75~100W range for
your fr/rear speakers (which you also probably didn't want to do).

so, I am I offering any real suggestions? I hope so.  lol....

There are a couple of questions that I need to ask though for a more
thorough picture...
1) what Wattage is the amp?
2) what is the actual subwoofer set up (i.e. how many spkrs, how many
Watts/per
3) rear speaker wattage rating

If I can help any further, please get me that info and I'll crank something
out for you.

HTH
Dan
'87 16v 'Rocco
'00 Jetta





Am I making sense? yes.


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