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[Limited Ex]

A long time ago, I ditched my radio to install a nice gauge pod in its place. Since then, I have managed to rig up my MP3 player to play through my speakers. I also no longer have the rear sub. Now, my question is this, how would I go about installing an amp between my MP3 player and my speakers to give them a little more bump? Right now, the way I have it rigged, is my player is what is powering my speakers, so there is very little bass and they can only play as loud as my player goes. I know an amp will not help the volume issue, but thats not a major obstacle.

One thing I had considered was seeing if I could hook up the amp from the factory sub woofer to the door speakers, and have my player run through it.

Thoughts, ideas?

 

[TerryS1980]

Cut a earphone cable and wire it to a line output converter.

 

[kabukie]

well i would find a 2.5 to L-R converter (not sure of the name) then run that to an amp. from there hook the speakers to the amp. ground power and remote also need hooked up to the amp. remote would basically be a 12v switched source just telling the amp your car is on.

 

[toypaseo]

If the IPOD has the common headphone jack, then maybe this is what you need.

In the past I ghetto-rigged a Sony Discman in my car. I ran a long headphone extension cable from under my seat to my trunk, where I used one of the above to convert the headphone to RCA for an amp that powered a sub. The amp's internal crossover was used to cut off the highs. On the Discman, it was plugged into the headphone jack, so the volume on it control the bass level. Since I had a cassette player, I used the common cassette adaptor, and plugged that into the line out on the Discman, since the stock stereo volume would control the speaker level. Worked like a charm, Used it for years. More bass? Turn up the MEGA-BASS on the Discman

 

[toypaseo]

As for the stock sub, I guess you could rig something up to make it power on and use some signal you provide. I don't think it would be ideal to run anything but the sub off of it.

Ideas...

-Get a five channel amp, and power the sub off of the fifth channel. (easy)

-Get a four channel amp, and power the sub off two channels, and power all the door speakers off the other two. (lose fader control) (more wiring possibilities other than the one I mentioned)

-Get a two channel amp, and power all of it off the two channels. (lose more fader control)

-Get two separate amps, one for the speakers, one for the sub.

-Buy an IPOD-ready headunit. Add an amp to power sub.

 

[Limited Ex]

Putting a head unit in is no longer an option. Basically what I did was take the wire harness for the speakers and separated it, then attached the wires to a Left Audio and Right Audio input, like what you would find on the back of your television. Then, I use a cable exactly like Toypaseo posted to plug my player into the audio inputs, connecting my player directly to the speakers. What I am wanting to do is put something in line between the speakers and the player. I was considering trying the amp that powered the sub, since it is relatively small, and I don't believe the door speakers would require much wattage to sound decent.

 

[toypaseo]

I was suggesting putting that adaptor between the IPOD and an aftermarket amp.