cypressd
Junior Member
So I've gone down the "Audio Upgrade" rabbit hole and I need some help, please. It's a long post just because I had to give some background.
I have a '22 Ram 1500 Crew with E-Torque and the basic, 8.4", 6-speaker factory system with the ANC.
I upgraded the system and it is set up as follows:
-PAC ANC-CH01 to bypass the ANC.
-Tapped into the PAC and ran the front and rear signals into an Audio Control D-4.800 4-channel amp with built-in DSP.
-Amp's front channels output into passive crossovers for a pair of Infinity Reference 697cf components with the woofer in the doors and tweeters in the dash.
-Out of the passive crossovers, I ran new speaker wire connected to the tweeters directly (not using factory speaker connection).
-The woofers output back through the PAC and am using the factory connections for the woofers in the door.
-Amp's rear outputs go back into the PAC and into rear 6x9 coaxials (Infinity Reference 697f) using the factory speaker connections.
-The D-4.800 is feeding a Kicker 46CXA800.1T mono amp that powers a 12" Sundown sub in a Fox Box enclosure.
So I'm currently running the front stuff passive with Front Left, Front Right, Rear Left, and Rear Right each on their own channel in the 4-Channel Amp. But I'm thinking I want to run front components as active 2-ways and just run the rear 6x9's off the HU for fill or just ditch them altogether until I can afford a new 6-8 channel amp.
I've researched the hell of of this and am still just plain confused, so I'm asking the gurus...
With the front door and dash wired in parallel from the factory, how would I go about running each speaker up front (door woofers/dash tweeters) to their own respective amp channels to run it active?
My amp has inputs for Front High, Fronts, and Rears. I'm figuring I can just use the Front High and Front inputs to run them active, but where should I pull the signal from since they dash and doors are wired together and not seperated out at the head unit?
Can I just tap the front, full-range signal at the PAC and run new wire to the Front High input channel on my amp and then run the other host wires into the Front input on the amp?
I already have new wire running to the tweeters from the crossover and bypassing the factory speaker connection. Would I also have to run new speaker wire to the woofers in the doors? Or can I just run them back into the PAC and use the factory wiring/connections just for the doors?
Or do I have get at the signal before it splits to the doors/dash. If so, then that would just be ignoring the ANC and I would then run the risk of the HU throwing a code because the ANC needs to see a signal. And if I'm no longer going through the PAC ANC bypass, the ANC won't see a signal?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Y'all.
I have a '22 Ram 1500 Crew with E-Torque and the basic, 8.4", 6-speaker factory system with the ANC.
I upgraded the system and it is set up as follows:
-PAC ANC-CH01 to bypass the ANC.
-Tapped into the PAC and ran the front and rear signals into an Audio Control D-4.800 4-channel amp with built-in DSP.
-Amp's front channels output into passive crossovers for a pair of Infinity Reference 697cf components with the woofer in the doors and tweeters in the dash.
-Out of the passive crossovers, I ran new speaker wire connected to the tweeters directly (not using factory speaker connection).
-The woofers output back through the PAC and am using the factory connections for the woofers in the door.
-Amp's rear outputs go back into the PAC and into rear 6x9 coaxials (Infinity Reference 697f) using the factory speaker connections.
-The D-4.800 is feeding a Kicker 46CXA800.1T mono amp that powers a 12" Sundown sub in a Fox Box enclosure.
So I'm currently running the front stuff passive with Front Left, Front Right, Rear Left, and Rear Right each on their own channel in the 4-Channel Amp. But I'm thinking I want to run front components as active 2-ways and just run the rear 6x9's off the HU for fill or just ditch them altogether until I can afford a new 6-8 channel amp.
I've researched the hell of of this and am still just plain confused, so I'm asking the gurus...
With the front door and dash wired in parallel from the factory, how would I go about running each speaker up front (door woofers/dash tweeters) to their own respective amp channels to run it active?
My amp has inputs for Front High, Fronts, and Rears. I'm figuring I can just use the Front High and Front inputs to run them active, but where should I pull the signal from since they dash and doors are wired together and not seperated out at the head unit?
Can I just tap the front, full-range signal at the PAC and run new wire to the Front High input channel on my amp and then run the other host wires into the Front input on the amp?
I already have new wire running to the tweeters from the crossover and bypassing the factory speaker connection. Would I also have to run new speaker wire to the woofers in the doors? Or can I just run them back into the PAC and use the factory wiring/connections just for the doors?
Or do I have get at the signal before it splits to the doors/dash. If so, then that would just be ignoring the ANC and I would then run the risk of the HU throwing a code because the ANC needs to see a signal. And if I'm no longer going through the PAC ANC bypass, the ANC won't see a signal?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Y'all.
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