Help!!!
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Help!!!
I replaced the factory H/U on my '90 GXE. The amp fuse is not blown. I'm not getting any sound from the rear speakers. I've posted a similar thread in the Audio / Electronics forum, but no answers. Anyone know how I can bypass the amp and ling directly to the rear speakers?
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Originally Posted by MyGreenMax94
You need to hook up the rear speaker amp to a switched source..IIRC it's the blue amp wire if you used the Scosche adapter harness..
Originally Posted by bLiNg_ThEoRy
yes i did use that adapter harness. sorry
Ok,their should be a amp hookup wire on the Scosche harness,usually blue with "amp" written on the wire..Hook it up to your rear amp,i don't recall which one on the car is the rear amp wire though,but if nobody else chimes in,i will pull my h/u out of my gxe tomorrow to be sure..
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Originally Posted by MyGreenMax94
Ok,their should be a amp hookup wire on the Scosche harness,usually blue with "amp" written on the wire..Hook it up to your rear amp,i don't recall which one on the car is the rear amp wire though,but if nobody else chimes in,i will pull my h/u out of my gxe tomorrow to be sure..
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Originally Posted by bLiNg_ThEoRy
Thanks again! Works perfectly now. 
I bypassed the amp.
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=430333
Depends on how much money you have to spend or how serious you are about your car stereo.
The pros say don't even bother with rear speakers because the soundstage of any decent system should be in FRONT of you so spend your time and money putting in brackets for 6.5 speakers in the front. Then get some really nice speakers to put there.
I needed a quick cheap fix when my deck died and wanted to take advantage of the decent speakers I replaced the stock ones with so I got a new budget deck and 1/2 din eq/amp that goes underneath it in the dash. Had to buy an install kit and give up my cup holder but oh well. The eq/amp has a mp3 input so that is what I use to listen to all my music.
If you don't want to upgrade your front I would replace speakers in the rear and just follow the instructions in one of those posts in the thread above to bypass that amp in back. I suppose you could just bypass the amp and use the same speakers but if they're the stock speakers I don't know how well they will work. I think they were made to function in conjunction with those amps (hence the "active speaker" whatever the hell that means).
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=430333
Depends on how much money you have to spend or how serious you are about your car stereo.
The pros say don't even bother with rear speakers because the soundstage of any decent system should be in FRONT of you so spend your time and money putting in brackets for 6.5 speakers in the front. Then get some really nice speakers to put there.
I needed a quick cheap fix when my deck died and wanted to take advantage of the decent speakers I replaced the stock ones with so I got a new budget deck and 1/2 din eq/amp that goes underneath it in the dash. Had to buy an install kit and give up my cup holder but oh well. The eq/amp has a mp3 input so that is what I use to listen to all my music.
If you don't want to upgrade your front I would replace speakers in the rear and just follow the instructions in one of those posts in the thread above to bypass that amp in back. I suppose you could just bypass the amp and use the same speakers but if they're the stock speakers I don't know how well they will work. I think they were made to function in conjunction with those amps (hence the "active speaker" whatever the hell that means).
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Originally Posted by crabapple
I bypassed the amp.
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=430333
Depends on how much money you have to spend or how serious you are about your car stereo.
The pros say don't even bother with rear speakers because the soundstage of any decent system should be in FRONT of you so spend your time and money putting in brackets for 6.5 speakers in the front. Then get some really nice speakers to put there.
I needed a quick cheap fix when my deck died and wanted to take advantage of the decent speakers I replaced the stock ones with so I got a new budget deck and 1/2 din eq/amp that goes underneath it in the dash. Had to buy an install kit and give up my cup holder but oh well. The eq/amp has a mp3 input so that is what I use to listen to all my music.
If you don't want to upgrade your front I would replace speakers in the rear and just follow the instructions in one of those posts in the thread above to bypass that amp in back. I suppose you could just bypass the amp and use the same speakers but if they're the stock speakers I don't know how well they will work. I think they were made to function in conjunction with those amps (hence the "active speaker" whatever the hell that means).
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=430333
Depends on how much money you have to spend or how serious you are about your car stereo.
The pros say don't even bother with rear speakers because the soundstage of any decent system should be in FRONT of you so spend your time and money putting in brackets for 6.5 speakers in the front. Then get some really nice speakers to put there.
I needed a quick cheap fix when my deck died and wanted to take advantage of the decent speakers I replaced the stock ones with so I got a new budget deck and 1/2 din eq/amp that goes underneath it in the dash. Had to buy an install kit and give up my cup holder but oh well. The eq/amp has a mp3 input so that is what I use to listen to all my music.
If you don't want to upgrade your front I would replace speakers in the rear and just follow the instructions in one of those posts in the thread above to bypass that amp in back. I suppose you could just bypass the amp and use the same speakers but if they're the stock speakers I don't know how well they will work. I think they were made to function in conjunction with those amps (hence the "active speaker" whatever the hell that means).
I believe so.
EDIT: You're asking a lot from 17 year old speakers.
You might check over in the audio/video classifieds or your local craigslist for a pair of nice used speakers (they're 6.5 in the back) then bypass the amps in the back.
Or like I said, get the brackets so you can put 6.5s in the front and forget about the back. You'd probably need an amp in that case though to get a nice full sound. You can get the brackets on ebay for pretty cheap or make them yourself.
http://www.geocities.com/craigbrace/
Or again, just bypass the amp and see what happens. Your new HU probably as a built in amp so it might work ok for your purposes.
EDIT: You're asking a lot from 17 year old speakers.
You might check over in the audio/video classifieds or your local craigslist for a pair of nice used speakers (they're 6.5 in the back) then bypass the amps in the back.
Or like I said, get the brackets so you can put 6.5s in the front and forget about the back. You'd probably need an amp in that case though to get a nice full sound. You can get the brackets on ebay for pretty cheap or make them yourself.
http://www.geocities.com/craigbrace/
Or again, just bypass the amp and see what happens. Your new HU probably as a built in amp so it might work ok for your purposes.
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Originally Posted by crabapple
I believe so.
EDIT: You're asking a lot from 17 year old speakers.
You might check over in the audio/video classifieds or your local craigslist for a pair of nice used speakers (they're 6.5 in the back) then bypass the amps in the back.
Or like I said, get the brackets so you can put 6.5s in the front and forget about the back. You'd probably need an amp in that case though to get a nice full sound. You can get the brackets on ebay for pretty cheap or make them yourself.
http://www.geocities.com/craigbrace/
Or again, just bypass the amp and see what happens. Your new HU probably as a built in amp so it might work ok for your purposes.
EDIT: You're asking a lot from 17 year old speakers.
You might check over in the audio/video classifieds or your local craigslist for a pair of nice used speakers (they're 6.5 in the back) then bypass the amps in the back.
Or like I said, get the brackets so you can put 6.5s in the front and forget about the back. You'd probably need an amp in that case though to get a nice full sound. You can get the brackets on ebay for pretty cheap or make them yourself.
http://www.geocities.com/craigbrace/
Or again, just bypass the amp and see what happens. Your new HU probably as a built in amp so it might work ok for your purposes.