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Old 09-06-2005, 04:06 PM
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Im going to amp the rear speakers in my IROC soon. I already have a nice 50 watts RMS by 2 amp that i bought for 40 bucks. Its an alpine. My question is how do i go about it? I've hooked up subs to an amp and used the preamp outputs on the back of the headunit but im not sure how to hook up the amp to the rear speakers. Would i do it the same way? Or do i send the speaker wires themselves into the amp then send wires from the amp to the speakers? Thanks
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you connect the same as you would to a set of subs...except you dont use a crossover...you could use either the low or high level inputs but on most head units the pre outs are already connected to the rear speaker outputs internally so i would suggest using the pre outs on reciever and just cap off the rear speaker outputs on the reciever...hope this helps man
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Thanks alot. Yeah that helps. Ill get around to it eventually i just want a game plan in advance. I have big plans for the IROC!!!!
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i have an oooold alpine 30x30 on my 6x9's and it sounds great...alpines are great amps...
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yeah this amp should be good. Its small and compact. I bought it from my boss who didn't need it anymore. Its practically new and i got it for 40 bucks. I couldn'' t pass it up.
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Originally posted by dwillis
i have an oooold alpine 30x30 on my 6x9's and it sounds great...alpines are great amps...
Wow! a 30-Channel amp?! AMAZING!

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what the heck are you talking about?A 30x30 as in 30 watts to each speaker never heard of a 30 channel amp dude except in whole house music!and that doesnt even pertain to cars!
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I was kidding, because that's the way you worded it in this post.

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i have an oooold alpine 30x30 on my 6x9's and it sounds great...alpines are great amps...
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ok, thats cool!
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