hu rca converters

[brinne19]

hey i was on some other car forums (vw ones actually) and i learned about a few websites like www.rcainput.com that have rca inputs for even explorers that can plug into the stock hu. I was wondering if there are any out there that allow a person to have rca OUTPUTS that are off of the stock pins. ie. it would allow you to run the stock pins ect but still have rca inputs for say an amp ect.

 

[B94Sport]

Yep... They are called line level converters. I am not sure which companies make them or where you can find them, but I bet there are other people in this forum who have used them.

 

[allenone973]

rca inputs

a great idea but i don't know if i would spend $75 on this. i bought the line level converter for $20 and it works fine

 

[hrbib21]

Re: rca inputs

Originally posted by allenone973
a great idea but i don't know if i would spend $75 on this. i bought the line level converter for $20 and it works fine

My line level converter works for sh*t. I actually only have the positive wire hooked up to it. If I hook the negative up, it won't work. I also can only put my amp gain up to about 50% or else I get an annoying hum (no, it's not bad grounding). I don't get it??

 

[ShadowA2J]

line level converters aren't made for really high quality, or big amp, systems. I have one in my vette and it works fine for pushing my 1 little amp. If you want quality, buy an aftermarket deck with RCA's, preferably one with 3 sets of RCA outputs so you can amp every speaker in your truck. You get what you pay for. $20=crap as oppossed to a $200 deck.

 

[hrbib21]

Yeah, I know. I need a new hu. I just posted because the other dude is also using a converter and maybe he can give me some tips.

 

[GaSouthern1]

Just save yourself the money and get a real head unit when you can, i had them for literally 2 hours before i went and got a head unit, they sucks major balls.

 

[brinne19]

i do want a new hu but my rents are the ones who "technically" own the car so they dont want me to get to much into an aftermarket sound system. They said i have to stop after a sub and amp thanx for the help though

 

[Kevex]

I used a line level converter and it seems to work fine, I even still have it in now with the new head unit until my RCAs are delivered but I still have no probs with it. It was even one that I bought at Kmart on clearance for $10.

 

[M.Scott]

I used this 4 channel converter Ven4 and it worked great. $33 at autotoys.com. I've heard of cheap ones that are noisy but never experienced a cheap one myself. Once converted to RCAs I amped to 75RMS with no hum or distortion. To keep from cutting wires I used metra 71-1771 16 pin adapter harness that when into the stock radio. Then connected the bare speakers wires of this adapter to the ven4 and all other power/ground wires etc. got connected to another metra standard 70-1771 harness which connected back up to the stock wiring. No cutting. Also after amping I sent speakers wires from the amp back to the head unit and connected up to the stock wires via 70-1771 again. Again no cutting. No running new wires.

Also remember that most amps have high level speaker inputs. So speaker wires directly from head unit to such an amp should work too. Plus less $ cause no line converter. I did not choose this method because the amp I was looking at did NOT have high level inputs. Plus I heard speaker wires are more prone to noise pick up than RCAs.