There are two wire plugs that are left over after hooking up bose interface. What are they? Also I had read about someone hooking up extra bose speakers and running them off the interface. I have some extra bose stuff from the boneyard. Where would be a good place to splice in the wires for putting some in the sail panels and under the dash. There is nothing there right now because of the bose. I have some enclosures to modify. Bose isn't great, but it is cheap.

 

where in the heck does that box fit??? I can't hardly fit my headunit in there with the regular wires back in there!

 

lol.. under the ash tray area...

 

that's where I stuff as much wiring as possible... plus that stupid GM antenna adapter doesn't help matters either

 

I actually had a wonderful experience of the car not starting and me replacing the starter before I figured out that while stuffing the wires in I unplugged the wires to the shifter that tells the car it is in park. I plugged it back in, it won't snap in place like every other connection in the car. Wasted $60 and a day.

 

I believe I have that same lower wire (the white / tan connector)... mine isn't plugged in, either.. I have no idea where it would go, because the heater doesn't use a connector like that, and all the speakers work and everything.. so I'm not sure where the hell it would go

The blue one.. not sure

 

you mean the nuetral/safety switch? because my car wouldn't start a few months ago, and I replaced the starter and a few other things, before I realized it was the damn switch!

-Steve

 

I have a bose-related question..
I have a bose-interface and an aftermarket headunit like the thread starter, here.. my interface is the GMAH12, from periphial electronics...

the interface instructions say not to exceed 45 watts per speaker (I believe)

my headunit is 100 watts, I believe.. which means 100 / 4 = 25 watts per speaker.. Now, the interface has individual GAIN controls.. can I turn all of those up to max, without having to worry about blowing any speakers? (So the music is a bit louder, before i hit the headunit's peak volume)

 

well I don't know anything about the bose gain controls... but I don't think your deck puts out that much power...

decks are more overrated than anything, its always peak power...

my deck says 52watts x 4... and its 23 watts rms x 4 instead...

what kind of deck is it, because I bet its less than 15 watts, maybe 20... maybe

 

i'm just wondering if i'll Theoretically be fine, if i up the gain's

It's a cheap rampage cd player (better than the last radio that was in it)
it's rated at either 80, or 100 watts

 

well if you do truly have gain controls for each speaker that is independent of the actual head unit... then go for it, because you can always start out low, and then up your way up... you'll know when you get too high, because it starts to sound like crap...

good luck and just move the gain up slowly

 

Best thing to do is to turn the gain on the interface all the way down and start turning the headunit all the way up with some music playing. If it sounds distorted, keep the gain all the way down. If it sounds clean with the HU at max volume, slowly turn up the gain (with the HU still at max) until it starts to distort. Turn the gain back down slightly and you're set. It will likely not be as loud as you might want it, but it will definitely prevent anything from blowing your speakers. This is the "correct" way to do it.

 

eh, I wouldn't say that is the "correct" way, because at full volume a lot of h/u will distort and clip and such maybe just find a nice medium to set both gains at.... especially if you have any speakers running off the deck...

 

Yes, that is the correct way. The point is to prevent accidental full volume at the headunit from killing your speakers.

 

oh yeah