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    Sound configuration

    HELP!!! My car ( Honda Odessy) is totally taken apart. I am trying to get sound to my factory car radio. How do I do this? Do I just run a cable with the standard speaker connection and cut it in half, then splice it in one of my radio wires? Is this the way to do that? Please help, and my wife will need the car soon. Time is important here. Any diagrams will be helpful too.

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    Okay, I'm not sure exactly what you're saying. Your speakers are (probably) driven by an amplifier in the radio. You can't just hook up a computer sound output to the speaker wires; the output is too low. Plus, when the radio plays something the power would most likely turn your motherboard into a smoking wreck. If your radio doesn't have line-in jacks on it anywhere, you need an amplifier and/or some device to switch the speakers between the two input sets.

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    FM Modulator
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    Oh yeah, I meant to say that too

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    Quote Originally Posted by EBFoxbat
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    He already has the car apart. Might as well get an amp and run wires to the speakers. If you have the cash this would be a great time to upgrade the speakers, too

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    Even so, if I do get an amp, how do I get the sound from the computer sound card to the amp? Let me get this straight, I run the wires from my sound card to the amp(somehow) then to all of my speakers? Is that right?

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    Does anyone have any pics and or directions how they got their sound from their computer to go through their car speakers? Please help me.

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    You buy a 1/4 male jack to 2 rca adapter to go from your pc to the amp.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Showmehow
    Does anyone have any pics and or directions how they got their sound from their computer to go through their car speakers? Please help me.
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