How to connect aftermarket amp to factory alpine amp

[corneileous]

My alpine amp has a remote gain also and doesnt effect the setup gains, i wonder which one is the better to use, pac or the amps or do they do the same thing??

I would probably say the amp gain knob that comes with your amp, but being that I don’t know what PAC Audio device you have, I can’t really answer that question. And as far as whether you’d have to use the DC offset or the remote turn on input wire setting, if you’re PAC device has a blue wire for your amp, just use that.

 

[heefageLA]

My alpine amp has a remote gain also and doesnt effect the setup gains, i wonder which one is the better to use, pac or the amps or do they do the same thing??

I would go with the amp gain control. Dont really know which is better...

 

[Jamese15]

I’m surprised nobody’s answered this but if you’re gonna hook up an aftermarket amp and aftermarket rear subs, if you have the Alpine system that has the factory rear subwoofer, you could just use those two speaker wires that go to that factory rear subwoofer. That’s what I did. At the time, I didn’t use any kind of a line output converter, I just basically ran two speaker wires to the factory rear subwoofer wiring and then put RCA plugs on the end of those wires and plugged those into my amp and then tuned it that way and it actually worked pretty good.

Hey new to this but I’m wanting to run 2 subs and amp did you just wire the RCAs to the factory sub wires and that powers the aftermarket amp? Or did you run power to the amp and that like usual?