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Uppy1975 (1)   ranked 1 out of 1 in car audio 3 years ago

I need help installing a pioneer gm-x432 amp to a panasonic df600u deck. i am trying to figure out which wire i use from the deck to the amp control terminal. any ideas???

 

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1. myLot reputation of 86/100. owlwings (12374)   3 years ago

You can download the User Manual for the Panasonic deck here: http://www2.panasonic.com... Installation instructions (in English) are on p.20.

The User Manual for the Pioneer amp is here but it looks as though you have to buy it: http://www.manuals-in-pdf...

The connection to the amp from the input appears to be a standard pair of phono plugs (the connections to the speakers are threaded).

From reading the User Manual for the deck, it appears that it is intended to drive speakers (and has enough output for that). It doesn't seem to have a Line Out connection. The Pioneer amp is designed to accept a Line input from a preamp, I believe, so the output from the deck may be way too high for the amplifier. If you do connect the speaker outputs of the deck to the amp inputs, you will very likely have to turn the gain on the amp down and you are unlikely to get a satisfactory quality without distortion.

Either you should use the deck without an amplifier (it already has one) or you should choose another deck that has a line output to match your amplifier.


Uppy1975 (1)   ranked 1 out of 1 in car audio  3 years ago

Thanks! But I am using the amp to power a sub-speaker. Any ideas?


myLot reputation of 86/100. owlwings (12374)  3 years ago

If by sub-speaker you mean a bass (or sub-bass) then you should almost certainly use a filter + attenuator/impedance matching system between the deck output and the amp. You would certainly need to filter the output to give preference to bass frequencies and, if your feed to the amp is derived from the speaker output of the deck, you may well need to attenuate the filtered output to match the input characteristics of the amp (which you should be able to get from the manuals I linked to if you don't already know them).

Such a filter + attenuator/impedance matching is something that most enthusiasts would put together themselves. I'm afraid that, although I know enough of the theory to understand some of the requirements, I'm not able to tell you exactly how to do it. What I do know is that, if the only output from the deck is designed to drive speakers, then the impedance is probably rather too low (in the range of 8 - 16 ohms where about 400 ohms is normal for a line input) and the peak voltage will almost certainly be too high for the amp.

For best results you will probably need a small active (powered) device to split the output between your main speakers and (via the amp) your sub(s). It's worth noting that stereo output to sub-bass speakers is a little pointless. The human ear doesn't distinguish 'position' in a sound source below the mid-range, so a central bass speaker (or two fed from the same souces) is all you actually need.

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2. myLot reputation of 67/100. snow_one (197)   3 years ago

you have to have the remote wire that connects the amp to the deck. don't forget about the power wire hook up also ..good luck

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