Hello everyone. Looking for a quick help on a radio install. 2011 jeep liberty. Been quite a few years since I've put in an aftermarket radio. I have a red wire from the radio with no match to the harness, and a blue from the harness with no match to the radio. Are these simply not going to be used? The harness came with a red wire extender with a little clip adapter. harness and radio

So I purchased this capacitor and got June 4th. The cap took forever to charge fully and when I disconnected the cap from the charging board that came with it the cap went from 12.3 volts to 4volts over tine connecting the cap circuit with my fuse under the hood did not seem to stop the rapid discharge it took roughly 90 minutes to get charged fully and then about 15 minutes to discharge. I contact the seller and they do an exchange so yesterday i charge the cap back up to 12.3 volts hook it up and leave for a wedding come home the cap is still charged so i go to test it i get the key turn the car over and the cap discharges to 8 volts immediately. I turn the car off irritated and go to bed. So today I charge it up again after finding my chasis ground was loose I get it charged to 12.7 volts just to try and give me time to get it hooked up with out arcing my amp. The discharge was quick but as soon as i connected the fuse it read 12.38 volts on my multi meter. I'm excited i turn the car over and boom again drops to 8volts and now sitting comfy at 4.5 volts. One thing i noticed when my car runs it runs at 14.7 volts so my question is do I need to charge this cap to 14.7 volts in order for the charge to stay. Will charging it to 12.3volts where the car is at when it is off not work? Id love to get this working but by now I'm ready to just return it.

I'm trying to find what make and model this car audio equipment goes to. Model: Re-127A 12v Serial No. 01878 Made in Japan

I just purchased and installed a Sony touchscreen stereo. It comes with a siriusxm mode which i don't intend on using. However... in tuner mode and Bluetooth i can hear sirius commercials playing in the background. Faintly but noticeable. And really distracting. Anybody know what the hell?

I have a 2 channel amp and 4 Pioneer speakers. Can I wire two speakers in parallel to each Channel. The amps is a Memphis PR 150 .2. To my knowledge it's a 300 watt amp with 150 per Channel . The back of the amp states that total speaker impedance for all power bass custom amplifiers must be at least 2 ohm stereo or 4 ohm mono. The Pioneer speakers ar TS mr2040 marine speakers with a 4 ohm rating.

Hi, i have installed an amplifier with a subwoofer in my car but the issue is when i turn the ignition on, the amplifier switches on right away. Is there any way i can make the amplifier switch on ONLY when i turn my radio head unit on and switches off when i turn my radio unit off?

I’ve looked everywhere online for a solution to this and I’m at a lost. I’ll try to explain everything I understand so far but feel free to correct me.

I own a 2007 Scion Tc with the factory pioneer radio that I wanted to swap out for an aftermarket, touchscreen radio so I could connect my phone to it and install a backup camera. I bought the stereo, camera, and wire harness

The harness is preset so all I have to do is match the colors from the radio wires to the harness wires. Here’s a list of each wire and it’s corresponding color:

Reverse-Brown Brake-Pink Key 1-Brown/Black Battery+ -Yellow Antenna-Blue Illumination-Orange Ignition-Red Ground-Black All others are for speaker connections

So after matching what I could, I saw that 3 wires weren’t used. The reverse, brake, and key 1 wires on the radio side. These wires were nonexistent on the harness side.

Now I’ve read that the reverse wire connects to the backup camera. That makes sense obviously because how else would the radio know to turn the camera on? Then the manual said that video playback is illegal while driving in some countries and to bypass this, you have to connect the brake wire to ground. If someone could tell me if it’s even worth doing and/or how to do it, I’d appreciate that.

And that leaves Key 1. I have no idea what this connects to or if it’s even used at all. Can someone give me pointers on what I should do about these extra wires. Thank you in advance.

I've had a pioneer Sph-da120 for a few years now. It's a great touchscreen radio. But it just got a lot better. I despise ios maps. But for the longest time that's the only map that was available through carplay. That is until this latest ios update. Now Google Maps and Waze both have carplay versions. And they work great. That was one of the major reasons that I got this radio. It works hand in hand with my phone. And as my phone updates and upgrades so would the radio. My patience has finally paid off.

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hi, i drive a 2012 focus. I was wondering about how much id need if i was looking to replace all the speakers in my car, as well as any reccomendations on brands or even just any useful information I could use to educate myself because i honestly have no clue what im dealing with here.

Ok so im getting 2 12 Alpine type rs and what's the difference between the 4ohm and 2ohm and they are rated at 1000 watts rms each so whats a good budget amp?

I had one of my rear speakers blow out so I disconnected the second rear speaker leaving only the front two 6.5 components speakers and my 2 12" subwoofers actually like the sound much better without the rear set looking to remove the front set and upgrade just the front set running a jbl apex1254 754 at 4 ohms. 1254at 2ohm. And 250*2at 4ohms any suggestions?????

Question for anyone with insight. I upgraded a 12" subwoofer in a loaded enclosure recently and was less than impressed with the results.

Started with this setup: Kicker CXA800.1 amp and Kicker 43CWR122 loaded enclosure. The sub was 4 ohm wired in parallel to 2 ohm's so it was pulling 600 watts.

My vehicle may also be part of the problem. I have a 2015 Genesis Sedan which seems to be heavily insulated. It needed no soundproofing material to stop rattling with the exception of a silicone license plate holder. Even my rear view mirror didn't rattle during bass heavy music which was unusual to me. I don't leave the rear armrest down and trunk pass through open which would make the bass louder.

I upgraded the sub to the Comp Q 12" 2 ohm sub which is wired in parallel and should be pulling 800 watts from the amp.

The bass is somewhat better and louder but not as much as I was hoping. I expected that the increase in quality on the sub coupled with 200 extra watts of power would equal more impressive bass performance but it seemed only marginal. Something else I was considering was swapping the box.

Growing up I always had subs in sealed boxes and was thinking of getting rid of the ported box and going sealed. What does this forum think?

Hey guys, so I purchased an ILX W650 and the install went smooth everything plugged in and works great, however I am having issues with getting audio from my woofers. The issue is that you can’t hear anything from the woofers unless I turn up the amp gain super high, almost maxed out. The subwoofer settings on the heady it are maxed out and so is all of the bass adjustment. It didn’t do it before with my previous headunit I tested another amplifier and it did the same thing so it isn’t my amp. I’m wondering if I may have an issue with the preamp connection behind the head unit or a bad set of RCAs, just need some direction because I’m pretty much out of ideas.

So at the moment I have a Sony amp from 2002 that I got from my dad a while ago (I've looked up the specs to make sure it's all hooked up correctly). I'm pumping a lot of power into 2 dual voice coil subs running at 2Ω each and 4 mids and 2 tweeters running at 4Ω, but my bass sounds really weak. Do I need another amp strictly for subs, or do I just need a new amp? I'm new to setting up audio systems so I'm not sure what's good equipment and what's just overpriced. Any advice would help, I'm not looking for competition level, but I want a stronger sound than what I'm getting