Monsoon Amp with aftermarket HU
02-22-2010, 02:56 PM
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Yes. The stock head unit is nothing but a stock HU. The amp takes speaker-level inputs from the stock head unit. Also, it gets its turn-on signal when it senses activity on the speaker inputs, so you don't have to worry about tapping into a remote turn-on wire either for the Monsoon amp.
I'm driving my Monsoon amp with my Alpine HU. Couldn't be easier! It will also sound MUCH better since you would be sending a clean signal to the amp, as opposed to a distorted signal form the stock POS head unit.
I'm driving my Monsoon amp with my Alpine HU. Couldn't be easier! It will also sound MUCH better since you would be sending a clean signal to the amp, as opposed to a distorted signal form the stock POS head unit.
02-22-2010, 03:05 PM
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awesome thanks.. i got to looking at the plug wire description... and it shows the steering wheel inputs to only have 1 wire... the radio i have now has 1 wire for steering wheel controls... should i connect them and see what happens? lol
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how do u hook up ur aftermarket HU to the M AMP?? cause i was told buy the shop that hooked up my Aftermarket HU that they couldnt do it cause it wouldn't work
03-15-2010, 08:36 PM
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If I understand that question correctly, you don't need anything special to hook up an aftermarket head unit to the Monsoon amp/system. In fact, that shop would have had to do significant rewiring to bypass the Monsoon amp. Just get a standard wiring adapter harness (GM 88+), connect it to your head unit, and plug it into the factory wiring. All of this is covered in the Monsoon FAQ as well.
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03-15-2010, 09:36 PM
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was told buy the shop that hooked up my Aftermarket HU that they couldnt do it cause it wouldn't work
. I was told that won't work also, but it is 100% NOT TRUE. I have my Alpine driving my stock Monsoon amp and it works just fine! All you need is the stock GM harness. It does sound like they disabled and bypassed the amp
although why they would do that I don't know.
03-16-2010, 07:50 PM
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when you take out the stock head unit there are two plugs, one is the amp correct? and there isn't a place to plug it into the new head unit or wiring harness i bought....how so u hook the amp up to the new head u nit
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If you are talking about the plug that I think you are, that smaller plug with 1 row of pins is for the stock CD changer, not for the amp. Even if your car doesn't have a changer, it is still pre-wired for one. You will not be using the stock CD changer with your new HU, so you won't need that connection anyway. The monsoon amp just takes its signal from the speaker outputs on the HU. It does not require a remote turn-on signal. It gets that by sensing voltage on the speaker outputs from the HU.
