Re: audio question

From: Patrick Delgado (dadoctah@vitelcom.net)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 22:11:16 EDT


Yes, but you'd be better off powering the front speakers with the amp
and the rear speakers by the head unit. You only need enough power to
the rears to provide "ambience"- you should just barely hear them.
Dr. Pat

Brandon Derks wrote:
>
> Okay, here's my problem. I have component speakers up front, and coaxials
> in the rear of my club cab, as well as a thunderform (total of 8 speakers).
> Head unit is a Pioneer 1 1/2 DIN (45w x 4) with 3 sets of preouts.
> Currently, everything is being pushed by an Orion 500.4 amp running from 2
> sets of the preouts, "front" and "sub". Since it's only a four channel amp,
> I have 2 channels pushing the front and rear speakers, and 2 channels
> pushing the subs. So I am unable to fade the sound because both front and
> rear speakers get their sound from the "front" preout on the head unit.
>
> My question is: Can I use the headunit internal amp to drive the front
> speakers, and still use the headunit preouts to drive the rear speakers and
> sub? Any other ideas, besides buying another amp?
>
> Brandon Derks
> 00 CC 4x4, 4.7, 5sp, 31BFG



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