Car Audio Question
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KungFuPanda

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4,645 posts

200 months

Monday 3rd May 2010
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I'm currently changing from this headunit:



To this:



I've had the Pioneer unit for over 7 years and back in it's day, it was quite a high end model and has withstood the test of time. I've decided to replace it with the Alpine unit was I really want connectivity for my iPhone which the Pioneer didn't have. The Alpine unit connects by a cable to the iPhone and I can control the music directly from the headunit. I'm aware that the Alpine isn't really that high a spec and I would have much preferred getting the IDA X100 or X200 but I have picked the X300 up second hand from a friend for a reasonable £50.

My question now is that the Pioneer head unit had 2 pre outs which were connects to a 4 channel amplifier which drives a pair of 6.5" components in the doors and 6 x 9 in the rear. The Alpine head unit only has one set of pre outs. Therefore is there a way of getting the signal from the head unit to the amp to drive all four channels as there is currently only 1 pre out rather than the 2 the Pioneer had?

Edited by KungFuPanda on Monday 3rd May 19:27

focusboy

274 posts

220 months

Monday 3rd May 2010
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Yep use some phono cable splitters

ETA http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RCA-PHONO-SPLITTER-CABLE-LEA...

A better version of these should do it.

Edited by focusboy on Monday 3rd May 19:30