Adding aftermarket amp to Monsoon Head Unit
U need a regular LOC, tapped into your sail panel speakers for signal. Your power wire kit to go from the battery and acc source to your amp and ground to amp , your rca's to go from that LOC to your amp.
If you are adding a sub amp to the factory system, the you probably aren't looking for that bone-rattling bass that some people want. I had an Infinity Bass Link in mine (it is a 10" sub with a built-in 150 watt amp all in one enclosure). I just tapped into the rear speaker leads since the Bass Link had speaker-level inputs. Ran a good power wire from the battery, good short ground wire in the trunk the same gauge as the power wire, and used the remote lead from the power antenna. Sounded great to me.
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What is a LOC? I found a PAC OEM 2 for $29.99 it has everything to tap into the oem speakers and amp. It also has the RCA jacks and remote wire for aftermarket amp.
You can use a line out converter from the rear speakers if you like, but if you are a cheap *** (like me) you can also just cut the heads off of some RCA cables and splice them directly into the outputs behind the radio.
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Of course, in your 96 (if it has the Bose system), the head unit output is line level anyway so it will work as input to an amp. The same cannot be said for a Monsoon system.
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You can do that if the amp has high level input but that is seperate from the RCA input generally and doing that on a standard low level RCA input should not work properly. That's why you use a line level converter or LOC as mentioned above.
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Verdad Gallardo That's true if you are doing it from a conventional head unit that is putting out speaker power, but since we are dealing with an amplified Monsoon system the radio is already only putting out pre-amp power.
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No, the Monsoon head unit is just an ordinary Delco radio. It puts out speaker level signal.
That's interesting, my reply was based on the assumption that the Monsoon system was amplified externally, in which case the radio would be putting out reduced power. I guess I stand corrected.
I have done car audio professionally and am pretty familiar with what a LOC is and the function of RCA's. The way I said to do it is what I have dont on several Bose and Infinity systems, but all of those were externally amplified. Admittedly I had not done one on a Monsoon system, was just operating under assumption.
I have done car audio professionally and am pretty familiar with what a LOC is and the function of RCA's. The way I said to do it is what I have dont on several Bose and Infinity systems, but all of those were externally amplified. Admittedly I had not done one on a Monsoon system, was just operating under assumption.
