ImQuattro®

I'd like to use the stock Bose speakers, and YES, I know they're powered. I do not want to rewire the car for sound.

The Bose unit sends low level signal to each amplifier SO ...theoretically.... can the typical RCA (low level) outputs be used to supply the signal to the stock speakers if I come up w/ a way to connect the RCAs to each speaker's signal wires?
Also:
I've been looking over the Gamma Bose pin-out that I think Kday did (sorry if you didn't and I'm not thanking the right person, it's a saved file on my computer w/ no credit mentioned).
Do all the speakers share a common ground?

Anyone been down this road w/ sucess?

Again, I don't want to replace the speakers/amps, I just want to replace the radio.
TIA

Zwoobah

any aft mkt deck with preamp outs will work just fine. yes, all the speakers share common ground

ImQuattro®

How did you connect the RCAs to the signal lines?

padriug

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93elmS4

from the head unit to the doors/deck. If you follow the "common" ground wire down about 6-8 inches you will find that there are actually individual grounds going to each corner of the car. I separated these and used each resulting speaker pair to carry amplified signals to the bose pods in the doors and to the rear-deck. In my case I decided to retain the bose enclosures but I have converted them to passive units.

ImQuattro®

Thanks for the help. I'll let you know how it works out...

ThetaTau87

To use the RCA outputs all you need to do is cut an RCA cable and solder it to the wires going to the Bose amps. The RCA outputs are already low level signals all that is needed is a way to connect them to the existing wires to the amps. An RCA cable is just a 2 conductor wire with a fancy connector on the end so if you cut one end off and connect it to the existing wires the low level signals from the RCA outputs go the amps the same as if you used an RCA cable to connect to an aftermarket amp.

Note that I have not done this, but in theory it should work perfectly.

padriug

I've thought about doing that.