I just got a new head unit, and as we all know...from bose to an aftermarket deck, you need a peripherial pack. there are four holes on the top that's labeled fl, fr, rl, rr.... my speakers didn't sound as good as before....how did you all tune it? thanx!

 

 

Most people get a special adapter. I got one from crutchfield that lets you adjust the gain level for all 4 speakers.

 

huh? so after the peripheral pack..there is another adapter??

 

I'm not exactly sure what the peripheral pack is. Go to www.crutchfield.com and look up this product number: 142CNN03. That is the adapter I got.

 

how did you adjust the gain level?

 

It was a screw for each speaker amp. just turn it slightly.

 

let me reword this....what i mean is that....how much did you adjust?

 

I didn't, my stereo hasn't arrived yet. But I already got the adapter. I was just saying that its very sensitive. The instructions to set them all to 0 gain, then work your way up to get a good sound.

 

oh! icic..sorry man me stupid like that! thanks for the instruction though...but one more thing...turn which way ish 0? and which way is full? i am assuming counter clockwise is 0? and clock wise is +gain?

 

Here I'll post the instructions for you:

Note: Adjustment gain controls are fragile, DO NOT force. A slight adjustment will change volume dramatically. To prevent damnage DO NOT press down while rotating level controls.

1.) Turn all 4 gain controls all the wat down. Turn each one COUNTERCLOCKWISE until it stops.

2.) Turn stereo on adjust volume to about 3/4's of maximum volume.

3.) Carefully tun the 4 gain controls up(CLOCKWISE) on the FAI-1a until the sound is as loud as it will ever need to be or near distortion. Distortion is when the sound(music) becomes garbled, breaks up, and becomes unclear. The 4 adjustment controls should be at the same level.

4.) Immediatly turn stereo volume back down and turn the 4 down slightly from where they are now.

5.) If there is excessive hum or hiss between songs the levels are set too hight.

I hope this helps you out.

 

thank you sooo much! you the best dude!

 

I know I am. j/k

 

D@mn, you can skip all that and just bypass the BOSE amps(Read as "I am cheap and buy only what I need to get the job done and work right without any problems"). That is what I did originally before I got my amp and everything worked fine with the speakers. But now that I am using an amp, there is no need for BOSE wires.

 

Well I'm not exactly a car stereo wiz, so I'll take the simpler route.

 

Actually it really is not hard as long as you can get the door panel off. All you do is disconnect the harness to the bose amp and then find the two wires giving signal to the speaker and splice into them to attatch to the speaker and leave the connector undone since you don't want any power going to the amp.

 

See thats already too much hassel for me! Heh, taking apart the dash was enough work already, and I have the adapter, and also I plan on keeping my bose speakers for a while, so I don't need another amp and such.

 

Yeah, to some it may be more of a hassle. I don't know if you got the same adapter, but one of the guys up here got one and said there were a bunch of wires he had to hook up to get it to work.

 

Not alot, but just the basic. Like you would have to do with any other car stereo, instead of wiring to the factory harness you wire to the adapter which plugs into the factory harness.

 

Maybe he just hasn't dealt with many stereos and didn't know how many wires to expect, who knows.

 

this is gonna be the first time I ever installed a car stereo. So I'm a newbie to this stuff. But it doesn't look to hard. Just connect a few wires together. plug in the adapter and i'm set.

 

It shouldn't be hard, just take your time and make sure everything is matched up correctly.

 

Thanks for the tip. I'm not just putting in a cd player, but also an empeg player as well. So I'm not really sure how I'm gonna go about connecting both to the one adapter. Anyone ever try adding 2 stereo audio components via one adapter harness?