C6 Stereo Help Please.. Upgrading Stereo But...
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From: fort lauderdale florida
C6 Stereo Help Please.. Upgrading Stereo But...
i have a subwoofer and amp.... i went to stereo shop to get installed and the guy said that he DOES NOT have to hook the amp up to the head unit and rather hook the amp to the rear speaker cable wire.. DOES THAT SOUND RIGHT???????????????????????
Le Mans Master
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From: Dyer IN
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the rear speakers are prly high passed liek in the C5. go to the back of the deck there are low level outputs to be tapped there and it will work just as good if not better then tapping the rear speakers
Le Mans Master
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From: Skippack PA
St Jude Donor '13
They definitely are high-pass, the installer is taking the easy way out. Here's how to get low-level output from the head - print it and tell the dummys to get it done right.
http://www.lazyassgeek.com/c6-stereo...-unit-harness/
Melting Slicks
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From: NCCO Oklahoma
Couldn't you use one of these to tap into your C6 HU?
http://sonicelectronix.com/item_5944_PAC+ADD-GM24.html
Seems like it would work... and you wouldn't need to tap into your stock wiring.
Mark
http://sonicelectronix.com/item_5944_PAC+ADD-GM24.html
Seems like it would work... and you wouldn't need to tap into your stock wiring.
Mark
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From: Skippack PA
St Jude Donor '13
Couldn't you use one of these to tap into your C6 HU?
http://sonicelectronix.com/item_5944_PAC+ADD-GM24.html
Seems like it would work... and you wouldn't need to tap into your stock wiring.
Mark
http://sonicelectronix.com/item_5944_PAC+ADD-GM24.html
Seems like it would work... and you wouldn't need to tap into your stock wiring.
Mark
But do either of you see a typical installer bothering? Most want to do exactly as ganna described - take the easy way out regardless of the performance. At least tapping into factory wires will provide the best performance, even if it's not the prettiest solution.
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Le Mans Master
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From: Dyer IN
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Yeah honestly id just tap the wires at the headunit and not bother with the harness as an installer, unless the customer had it already and supplied/asked for it to be used.
Most installers will try to half *** it and tap the rear speakers but its not gonna work right
Most installers will try to half *** it and tap the rear speakers but its not gonna work right
Racer
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From: las cruces nm
the installer would be taking the output from the blose amp as an input to the new amp, not good. also, i believe there are some different impedances between the blose amp and speakers. you are better off finding a shop that wants to do this right .
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Having been a 12 volt guy in a past life, and a home custom installer for the last twelve years, I wouldn't let most car stereo places touch my car. I may end up doing something with the sound system after a while, but for the moment I'm going to enjoy the car as it is and lurk here. When it does get changed it will either be a very high end 12 volt operation, or more likely this old man will do it himself. :-)
Expect a higher labor bill for adding to the work of the installer. It's fair; you've added to his scope of work, even though he didn't do a good job of apprising you of the way they planned to do the work and why.
Expect a higher labor bill for adding to the work of the installer. It's fair; you've added to his scope of work, even though he didn't do a good job of apprising you of the way they planned to do the work and why.
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From: Skippack PA
St Jude Donor '13
This applies to ANY subwoofer. Subwoofers are reproducing low frequencies. Rear speakers produce high(supposedly) and midrange-to-midbass frequencies and the C6 system only passes those frequencies to the rear speakers. Therefore the signals you most want to be reproduced by the sub are not present in the signal at the rear speakers. That makes them a lousy source, and that's before even getting into the fact that you're taking an inherently noisy amplified signal and converting it into a line-level signal for re-amplification....
Point made yet?
Point made yet?