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OK, I am pretty handy with stereos and such but thought would ask some pro's how to best do the following connections.. NOT looking for suggestions at this juncture for which speakers/sizes/locations might be better or what not, just the best way to connect up the amps..

Have the following speakers

Doors
1.5" tweeter and 3.5" mid with crossover
5.25" with crossover

Rear
6" mid woofer with crossover
1.5" tweeter and 3.5" mid with crossover

10" sub

AMPS
4 channel amp
5 channel amp

NEITHER amp has pass through RCA's

Stereo Head Unit
Porsche CDR-220 which has pre-outs for front and rear

The 5 channel amp requires the RCA inputs for the sub have inputs connected to it which is the issue..

I have the 4 channel amp running the all the speakers except the 6.5" mid woofers in the rear and the 10" sub

So... for the RCA's out of the head unit, I currently have RCA splitters which one side goes to the 4 channel amp and then for the ones to the 5 channel have additional splitters connected to the sub inputs on the 5 channel amp

TO clarify the Pre-Outs from the head unit have a RCA splitter connected to them. One end goes to the 4 channel amp the other to the 5 channel amp. Then two of the splitters go to another RCA splitter which one end is connected to the input for the 5 channel amps sub input.

Make sense..

Just seems there has to be a simpler way!

THANKS!

JBrown

What amps are they.. Model nubers also.

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Both are kenwood, one is Xr-5S the other is KAC-8405

JBrown

Use the 5 channel. Put the door speakers on the front channels and the rear speakers on the rear channels. Put the crossovers ( on the amp) on HP or high pass and start the crossovers at 80-100hz for both front and rear.
Put the sub on the 5th channel and make your final impedence of the woofer is 4 ohms. It looks like that is the lowest you can go with that amp. Put the crossover( on the amp) on LP or low pass for the sub and cross it over at 80hz.

Put the front rca's in front and the rear rca's in rear inputs. I am pretty sure that when you put in the 4 rca's it should feed a signal to the sub inputs. Some amps have a swith so you can use a multi channel amp with one set of rca's . You just dont get fader control or control over the sub, which you cant anyway cause you dont have a seperate sub controll on the radio. If that does not give the sub signal , go out and get a pair of rca splitters so you can split the signal at the amp and put the rcas into the sub input or 5 channle input.

Thats a start. then you really have to know how to adjust the amp to get maximum performance.
You are going to have to adjust the gains and tweek out the crossovers for best sound with out distrotion.

Hope that helps... John