Is this the best option for adding a mono amp and sub? Will power wire Work t turn amp on/off? Is there any cheaper methods that are just as good?
941276
For me, this was a complete waste of money. I bought one for my f150. It never worked from day one. Never turned on the amp via remote wire. When i jumped the remote from the power i still was not receiving a signal from the RCA's, all around failure. I wish you the best. As for me i am just stuck with this faulty paper weight.
941277
Idk if it's the "best", but it worked perfect for my setup. I installed a mono amp, sub and the power Works to turn on and off the amp.
941278
Thats exactly what I did on my 2010 f150 stock radio. Use the blue wire as your remote power for your mono sub. I installed this guy hid behind my dash (check out youtube vids for your vehicle) and had my amp and sub hooked up working within 30min. Cheapeat and best option i've seen for newer vehicles. I used to install aftermarket radios with sub/amp but I really wanted to keep stock radio mainly because sync intergration and this is the best option. You won't be disappointed if you do it right.
941279
It's the simplest solution if you want to keep the factory head unit. The power turn on wire works fine, and the sound is quite good actually.
941280
This is the method I chose to add a mono sub amp. It has a remote turn on wire for turning the amp on and off with the cars system. Cheaper would be to run the remote turn on from the fuse box from any source controlled buy the accessory switch position of your ignition. The audio would be run from the rear speakers using a line level converter. I do not like that option because I prefer not to alter the factory wiring, and I can remove the PAC adaptor easily without altering any factory wiring.It has been my experience that line level converters do not sound near as good as true pre amp level outputs. I have also experienced feedback using line level converters. This is the method I chose to add a mono sub amp. It has a remote turn on wire for turning the amp on and off with the cars system. Cheaper would be to run the remote turn on from the fuse box from any source controlled buy the accessory switch position of your ignition. The audio would be run from the rear speakers using a line level converter. I do not like that option because I prefer not to alter the factory wiring, and I can remove the PAC adaptor easily without altering any factory wiring.It has been my experience that line level converters do not sound near as good as true pre... » Read More This is the method I chose to add a mono sub amp. It has a remote turn on wire for turning the amp on and off with the cars system. Cheaper would be to run the remote turn on from the fuse box from any source controlled buy the accessory switch position of your ignition. The audio would be run from the rear speakers using a line level converter. I do not like that option because I prefer not to alter the factory wiring, and I can remove the PAC adaptor easily without altering any factory wiring.It has been my experience that line level converters do not sound near as good as true pre amp level outputs. I have also experienced feedback using line level converters. « Show Less
941281
If you want to keep your existing head unit, which is actually a decent unit(stock speakers are horrible), it is the easiest route I found to go. I have a 4 ch and a sub amp hooked up to it. Yes it turns it on and off if you run the remote wire. Works just like stock and I haven't had any problems at all!! As for cheaper, I don't think $33 is expensive at all.
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I dont know what you people are pushing with a BOSS AMP, and I see people saying use a capacitor its pulling too much power, breaking windows, but I see them using BOSS SUBS, and DUAL SUBS, were talking all cheap products people and CLASS D SHOULD NOT DIM YOUR LIGHTS OR DRAIN YOUR BATTERY, and its of course no where near 4000 watts, its a couple hundred watts. Get a DIGITAL ALPINE SUB AMP and your system will sound CLEAN, LOUD and your LIGHTS WILL NOT DIM OR KILL YOUR ALTERNATOR or catch your car on fire LOL
354027
If you are going to hook up in series you are going to need to add amplifiers because you are going to increase the impedance. My suggestion would be to purchsse a speaker selector switch box which distributes the current evenly and you can turn all on or some off. Speaker switch boxes are normally passive, otherwise you are going to need to biamp or you'll end up frying the car stereo's built in amp.
2157515
This should work wel for your system. The total power of my amp stated on the test sheet was 715amps. It has plenty of power. Turn off the low pass switches to the speakers and get your base from the Sub woofer! I think you will be happy!
1075647
Wire your speakers normal. But drop the resistance on the sub. It should push it no problem
917714
That's what I use to power this amp. It will work. Moreover, it's always good to overpower ur sub than underpower them. Use the gain adjustment in the amp to get the right setting.
236115
I hooked my sub (KRK Powered sub) to the AUX OUT. This works great! You will have level control from the mixer. I used a 1/4" TRS stereo cable. It is not important that the sub signal be "stereo", but is important that both L&R; channels reach it. This is working for me. If your sub has separate L&R; input, like mine; just use a Y connector (1 female TRS to your 2 required mono males). My mains go out to a QSC amp and 15" JBLs. I am very happy with this mixer!
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Use a 50 amp fuse. Also 8 Guage or 4 Guage is sufficient for power wire.amp has about 75-80 watts rms per ch. Mine had a certificate showing 321 total rms (continuous) wattage. Perfect for high powered speakers. Can be bridged for subs as well and 2 ohm stable
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Alex - You need to explain and understand your setup and budget. If you are using this for primary source of music and need to drive prof speakers or just casual listening with avg pair of speakers. Power amp cannot be used directly with PC; try M1Sdac or M1 Clic as pre amp and use that to drive the volume on M1Pwr - as the latter has fixed volume. Better solution would be to have powered speakers - Genelac or Krk would you be good bets presuming you have the $s.
1940441
Dude any amp will work with your subs but I'd you want the most power wire your subs to one ohm. I have two infinity 12 inch dual voice cola hooked up to this running one ohm resistance and it's so loud it out powers my speakers if I crank it
118749
my sub is starting to get weak for some reason. do you guys know if i can hook up a powered sub to this receiver? im not sure if i can since the sub this came with connects via regular speaker wires (black and red)
1788792
Just use the pre amp sub out on an audio receiver. Makes it easier to just run a coax to the sub rather than series Speaker wire to lower ohms.or even Better do not wireless if you can't run a wire.Purchase a wireless audio transmitter single channel..hook it up and boom!
1099734
this would not be your best bet. go with a 1000 watt mono amp. I used this 500 watt on my door speakers. Had a 1000 watt mono for my two 10's and it was far more than enough. However the 500 wouldnt give you what you need.
2087611
This is a bit like asking "how do you cook?" There us no one best way to hook up a sub... you need to divide the frequency of the signal into the frequency range your speaker responds to. There are many ways to do this... a crossover network can split the input (your music) into "sub" and "everything else" before the amplifiers and use separate amps for the subs and everything else... but thus is only one solution. Tell us what equipment you are trying to use and perhaps you will get a more useful response.
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You wouldn't add it to your existing amp as it is self powered. You can only use an existing amp if it has the line level sub woofer out...do not feed power out in to it or you will blow it up! It provides a few options for hook up. It has two RCA type connectors that would come from your amp or speakers sub woofer out (make sure the amp doesn't put out power to the sub...just a line signal). The speakers I use are self powered Custom brand mid and high speakers that have a sub woofer out. That is 150 hz cross over and the sub has a rotary dial to select whatever cut off frequency you want...150 or lower so I just set to 150 on the sub. It also has connectors to connect two stereo speakers out which would normally be the matched Pioneer speakers....but I didn't use those....only use the sub for bass and nothing else connected. Impedance of the sub is 8 ohms but that isn't important as it is self powered. You can have it accept the bass output from either one or two speakers. Normally I use this setup for a stereo speakers system for a MIDI instrument. The bass from the instrument is output mostly from one side so only need to connect that one speaker sub woofer out but have used it with both speakers connected...works either way. Note that sub bass is pretty much non directional so no need to have stereo sub woofers....better to pick the best spot for the one speaker. The way that is done is to put the sub woofer where you or the audience will sit and play the music. Move around the room until you hear the best bass response. That location is now where the speaker should go. This isn't always possible but a good rule of thumb. Since I use this for musical performance rather than a home stereo system, I have different needs....but in any case this speaker is a remarkably good one and sounds better than many other high end subs....it is a nice tight, non boomy and no echo bass....so very realistic sound. It is excellent for the drum machine sounds and low musical bass I use in my performance.
595578
It depends on what ohms your subs are? But this is a nice universal amp and I have it for my mids and highs. I did hook it up to my 2 12s and it worked good. With a mono amp you can only use it for your subs. I think of the future and what I can do with my amp and know this isn't the greatest amp out there but it does the job.
564527
Sorry, I used an amp to run my subwoofer, I have a pioneer 1200watt subwoofer, so i didnt want to use only the pioneer deck. i know this does not help you, but i use the deck alone to power my door speakers and they work great.