PerformanceRed4.6GT
06-01-2004, 09:57 AM
I've only got the stock premium sound in my car with some pioneer 4 ways in place of all four stock speakers. So this weekend I thought it would be a great idea to buy a 4 channel amp (pioneer GM-4000F) to boost the sound quality a notch or two. I'm pretty handy when it comes to electronics (thats my job) but i've never hooked an amp up to a stock head unit before. So the guy at the store tells me I need to buy two line out converters (install edge iec-auloc) to convert the signal out of the radio to accept RCA jacks. Pretty simple huh? OK. So I get home and remove my stock head unit to find that there is about 5 million connectors on the backside. I did some research and found the connecter that was the speaker signals out to the stock amplifier. This is where I wired in the line out converters, pluged my $40 rca cables in and ran them back to the input on the Amp. After everything was wired up I gave her a test run and it sounds like ass. It acts as if the amp isn't getting a good input. I did some tweeking on the gains and there was no improvement and I am sure everything else is wired up correctly, I double checked. I'm just not comfortable with the converters. Could somebody help me out?