splicing existing speaker wire

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Topic: splicing existing speaker wire

Posted By: wolfe
Subject: splicing existing speaker wire
Date Posted: January 22, 2004 at 7:38 PM

My fiend and I are installing two 12 inch subs in the back of his '87 grand am. We were wondering if we could splice the rear speaker wires in order to save the speakers or should we just run separate wires from the head unit to the amp. I figured we should just cut the rear speakers and run them through the amp. But we don't want to loose the rear speakers. What should we do?

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Posted By: Clean Install
Date Posted: January 22, 2004 at 7:41 PM

Is it a factory head unit or aftermarket?

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Posted By: wolfe
Date Posted: January 22, 2004 at 7:54 PM

it's factory

Posted By: geepherder
Date Posted: January 22, 2004 at 8:32 PM

You don't need to cut the wires. For simplicity, if the amp has high level inputs, run jumpers from the rear speaker wires to the amp inputs. If not, use some line out converters off the rear speakers.

Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: January 22, 2004 at 8:40 PM

See the post about lineout convertor necessary.

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Posted By: Clean Install
Date Posted: January 22, 2004 at 8:46 PM

I would use a line converter, but jumpers works too.

Posted By: Clean Install
Date Posted: January 22, 2004 at 8:54 PM

line-out converter necessary

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