OK I popped in an older Alpine head unit and 4 Phoenix Gold RSd 6.5" speakers this weekend in my 89' Jeep Cherokee. I wired them up to an old ADS PQ10 (Love this old girl) not powerful but real musical. My two questions are this. On the new PG speakers they are not marked + and - for the signal wiring, though one terminal is "normal" sized to fit a standard female spade terminal and the other is 1/2 width of the other. The larger one has what looks like an inductor or filter coming off the "normal" sized wiring terminal. I designated these terminals as + just to make them all alike. So does it not matter with new speakers where I place my + amp signal anymore? As long as they are all wired alike? Owners manual says nothing about speaker wiring. Second question: Later I will be adding a sub box from SubThump.com (Package 1.5) - the MB Quart DSC2150 amp and Dayton 10" sub will be standalone portion of the system, but with no sub output from the older Alpine (Just 2 front 2 rear outputs) How will I get the full range signal to split or is the subs amp a pass through device? I really want to keep the PG's powered by my ADS PQ10 and just the Dayton sub powered by the MB Quart. Help. See link: http://subthump.com/edeals.htm And a better connection picture of the amp: http://www.sonicelectronix.com/pictures.php?id=13494
sorry for the delay in responding. work gets in the way.lol. you can run y splitters from your front outs to the a/d/s amp(just readjust your gains for the rear fill speakers) and the rear outs can go to the mb quart amp and use the amps xover the sub. you can use the fader for a simple sub vol control too. good luck. hope this helped.
