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Thanks! Hey let me know what you think of this? I'm building the system in the dash as you have done but I wanted to be sure to keep the wiring simple so here's what I came up with.
The 4 standard speakers will need power, so an amp was needed. I have an Alpine 4ch that I'm mounting in the trunk on the bottom of the rear deak between the two deck speakers. I called Alpine to make sure it would work upside down without going into thermal shutdown and they approved it. So hopefully that won't be a problem. Now since it will be right there by the deck speakers, I'll just run new wire to those. Leaving the front ones in need of service. I'm going to hook the amp's front speaker hook ups to the original factory wiring for the rear speakers. That will carry the signal to the stock connector located behind the factory deck location. I'm then going to connect the wires to the front speaker wires, in the same connector so I should have a factor installed, twisted-pair wire from the rear deck to the front speakers, all without running any NEW wire!
To get sound from the PC to the rear deck I'm going to use a USB soundcard, probably a M-Audio box since it will run from USB power. That way a digital signal will all that will be going from the PC to the sound box via USB. Very little chance to pickup any noise over that. Then I'm just going to use short phone jack to 2xRCA cables to connect the M-Audio box to the amp. Again, very short cables to minimize noise. So all in all, I should only have to run power and a USB cable to the trunk.
What cha think?
Mike
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