Cd Player In '93 Touring
11-25-02, 02:17 PM
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Cd Player In '93 Touring
OK, INEED SOME HELP I INSTALLED AN AFTERMARKET CD PLAYER INTO MY '93 TOURING RX-7 AND THE SPEAKERS DONT WORK. IT HAS THAT WHOLE ACOUSTIC SYSTEM IN THERE SO AM I SUPPOSED TO DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THE SPEAKERS WORK???
11-25-02, 02:38 PM
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If you have the Bose Acoustic Wave System in it they you need to buy an adaptor that goes on the harness that allows the system to work. From what I have learned the Bose system uses amps at each speaker instead of amping it from the head unit. For some reason this makes it so that you have to purchase this adaptor. If you go to the Audio section in the forum there are many posts mentioning this so just do a search for them.
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The speakers have their own little amplifiers right in the speaker assembly itself, so they are looking for line level signal, NOT speaker output signal. So you need to find line out outputs from your CD player and place them into the "speaker" lines that go to the various speakers. Or get a little more involved, and re-wire the whole damn thing and run the CD player speaker outputs directly to the speakers. Note that the center dash speaker and the bose wave bass box are a combined signal (both left and right channels are summed) which is difficult to do with speaker level outputs from aftermarket stereos. Sounds like a big hassle to me, so I just suffer with the BOSE
-edit: I sat in an R1 with the stock system that has the speakers behind the seats in the pass compartment. Actually sounded better than the bose...
The speakers have their own little amplifiers right in the speaker assembly itself, so they are looking for line level signal, NOT speaker output signal. So you need to find line out outputs from your CD player and place them into the "speaker" lines that go to the various speakers. Or get a little more involved, and re-wire the whole damn thing and run the CD player speaker outputs directly to the speakers. Note that the center dash speaker and the bose wave bass box are a combined signal (both left and right channels are summed) which is difficult to do with speaker level outputs from aftermarket stereos. Sounds like a big hassle to me, so I just suffer with the BOSE
-edit: I sat in an R1 with the stock system that has the speakers behind the seats in the pass compartment. Actually sounded better than the bose...
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Call up Crutchfield (1-888-955-6000) and tell the sales rep your situation. They sell a high-level to line-level resistor box that plugs right in for about $40. You can do it yourself for a lot less with adjustable pots, but it wasn't worth the trouble to me. I have an Alpine CD player that works great with the resistor box (I forgot the manufacturer's name).
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get new speakers....i tried doing the same thing...in my old 91 300z and in my 93 rx....the bose system hates anything aftermarket...you can get the adapter...and it should work...but if it's a 93 the wires between the amp's and the speakers will start to go soon and they will start to crackle and sound like ****....you can get a half decent amp and speakers on ebay pretty cheap....save yourself the headache....good-luck....
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