Not sure what I'm not hooking up right but I tried to change over my left and right stock speaker leads to my RCA pre-outs on my Pioneer 960 and I'm getting no sound. I installed each RCA with one pos. wire going to the middle and the matching neg. to the shield for a total of 4. (My unit has one pair of mid. and one pair of high RCA's along with a pair of sub RCA's). I looked in the instruction book and from what I can see it doesn't say anything about these having to turn them on in a menu option that I can find...

Any ideas? Thanks in advance...

 

You need to use an amplified source, not RCA. Did you get a passive deck only?

 

Guess I'm not too sure what you mean. The deck has 6.5v pre-outs and 50x4 watt speaker outputs.


http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pn...etailComponent

 

Use the 50x4 outputs. You will only use the (+ and -) on the LEFT FRONT and RIGHT FRONT wires off of the harness. The rears should be taped off and not used. The crossfire operates off of 2 channels. Left and Right. It has a built in crossover that sends the right freq to the tweeters, mids, and subs.

The RCA connectors are designed to run a cable from the deck to an aftermarket amplifier. This would then require you to run you own speaker wire directly from the amp to the speakers on the vehicle. This of course would bypass the built in crossover / amplifier system. RCA's put out a lower voltage as they are used to send a signal to an amp, not power anything directly.

Hope this helps.

 

I see...My remember reading somewhere before about the sound quality being a little cleaner going thru the RCA's but I guess it just won't work with this deck. Thanks though for your help...

 

Sound is always cleaner going through RCA vs the typical "powered by deck" amplification. Your deck is at 6.5v preamp output for RCA's. That is very high and way above the average. Its not your deck being an issue, its that you aren't really connecting to an "amplifier". I think the factory amp requires higher voltage. I think they did this in the event someone hooked up an aftermarket radio. If the voltage requirement was only 4v and someone hooked up their 40x4 aftermarket deck, it would fry the amp or just clip out.