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Trying to get my rear active system speakers to work with my new deck can someone help me out with wiring trying to figure out how to utilize the system so I still have the active system speakers running.

TIA.

boogs

active speakers system?

AUDI 90 (88)

featured active system rear speakers.

boogs

and what makes them different from the other rear speakers?

AUDI 90 (88)

Active speakers do not need nor do they make use of external amplifiers. Their input comes in the form of a low-level (line-level) signal passed along an interconnect cable originating at the preamplifier. Passive designs accept a speaker level signal that has been amplified enough to generate motion in the speaker's diaphragm and thus create sound waves.

Symply put they do not use deck amplifiers and therefor can not be used with bilt in deck amps.

Audicted

Try Audio Forum.

SLAB

you seem to understand that your speakers need LINE leven inputs, so why dont you run line level to them??


if you have THAT crappy of a head unitand dont have line outs, , then just buy some speaker level to line level converters...

or buy new rear speakers!

boogs

there should be 4 wires coming into the HU that used to be connected (or still are) to a red harness plug. Two brown ones, a red, and a blue. Those are your positives and negatives. The blue is positive for the left, the red is positive for the right. And each brown is a negative for each, not sure which one, so you will just have to test it. =)

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Using this method, you will realized that those speakers are the weakest part of our cars. But its the only way to get it to work unless you want to use up pre-amp outputs on the back of your HU for some crappy little rear speakers.

boogs

i would take a pic of the old B3 head unit ive got here, but parents have the digicam down the shore

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I gues I just have to bypass thanks.