RCA or Wires
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RCA or Wires
Yes. I am hooking up my stereo system in my 95 ranger. I was planning on using RCA cables to hook up my speakers because i heard they were the best performance. I am using the stock speakers in the doors and i have a subwoofer behind the seat. I rigged up the factory speakers to a rca cable and they were't very loud, at all. you could barly hear them and they were very distorted. The speaker wires had been pulled from my CD player's wiring harness so i just rigged up the wires coming from one of the speakers to the cd player to see if they played better and they did perfectly. So my wires would put out better sound than the rca would a hundred times over. I am planning on getting a new harness for my cd player which has the correct wires for speakers. I am wondering if i should use the RCA jacks and rca cables to go to my amp which goes into my woofer. If the wires did better on my normal speakers should i use them on my amp other than the RCA cables. I mean is there a reason the RCA cables don't put out much power. please tell me..should i go the rca way or just old fashion wires..my amp has both..thanks
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RCA or Wires
Yep, RCA's are used to carry low voltage signals (1-4 volts typically). They are sheilded so well because of this fact, the lower the voltage, the easier to pick up noise.
Just run the RCAs from head to amp and run thick gauge, fine strand wire from the amp to the speakers.
We can argue all day about what wire sounds best, they all have their characteristics. Heck, there used to be places that would let you take wire home to listen before you buy, like a test drive. Some guys even go so far as to string the wire on little telephone poles to keep it off the carpet. That's just being picky, as long as the wire is big enough to carry all the current you need it too, thats good enough in your case.
Just run the RCAs from head to amp and run thick gauge, fine strand wire from the amp to the speakers.
We can argue all day about what wire sounds best, they all have their characteristics. Heck, there used to be places that would let you take wire home to listen before you buy, like a test drive. Some guys even go so far as to string the wire on little telephone poles to keep it off the carpet. That's just being picky, as long as the wire is big enough to carry all the current you need it too, thats good enough in your case.
