Bobsyouruncle
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Hi winter in my neck of woods, just in process of installing new stereo. I have installed a number of stereos in cars over the years, I currently have radio/stereo sitting half way in place
Here`s what I have...need help please, what am I doing wrong
I have yellow to yellow and Red to Red for power, I have my speakers hooked up, I can get pretty decent sound, I think grounding is where I am having trouble?
Everything is tinny and distorted until I run a short wire from one of the speaker connections to the red power wire and then BOOM great sound. Should the speaker wire be touching the power red?
I thought it should be a negative?
The old player that I removed had a wire fastened to the very back of it, obviously just grounding the unit to the chassis I assume, and then the black ground wire coming out of player also fastened to that same ground wire....Is that correct because that`s also how I have the new one hooked up.
The other thing is this.....Out of new player, I have 2 wires for front left and 2 wires for front right speakers. I have a white wire and a white wire with black stripe for the left, and the Gray and the gray with black stripe for right speaker....I want rear speakers, have Purple and green for that, but concentrating first on front speakers.
The last guy that installed the other player (previous owner) had it hooked up in a circular manner, same as I have always done...been years BTW so I forget.
So as I have it set up right now I am only using 1 of each wire if you follow my drift.
Dont I have to ground the speaker wire at some point? Like I said it goes on great when I touch one speaker connection to the red power line by way of a short wire crossing over.
I know something is amiss because while it`s ok with my ipod shuffle in the front 3.5 input, when I put a cd in it just flashes on aNd off with error.
Any suggestions please
Perhaps someone could tell me how just the front speaker wires connect, do they need at some point to be grounded...confused...BTW I have done tons of searching
Here`s what I have...need help please, what am I doing wrong
I have yellow to yellow and Red to Red for power, I have my speakers hooked up, I can get pretty decent sound, I think grounding is where I am having trouble?
Everything is tinny and distorted until I run a short wire from one of the speaker connections to the red power wire and then BOOM great sound. Should the speaker wire be touching the power red?
I thought it should be a negative?
The old player that I removed had a wire fastened to the very back of it, obviously just grounding the unit to the chassis I assume, and then the black ground wire coming out of player also fastened to that same ground wire....Is that correct because that`s also how I have the new one hooked up.
The other thing is this.....Out of new player, I have 2 wires for front left and 2 wires for front right speakers. I have a white wire and a white wire with black stripe for the left, and the Gray and the gray with black stripe for right speaker....I want rear speakers, have Purple and green for that, but concentrating first on front speakers.
The last guy that installed the other player (previous owner) had it hooked up in a circular manner, same as I have always done...been years BTW so I forget.
So as I have it set up right now I am only using 1 of each wire if you follow my drift.
Dont I have to ground the speaker wire at some point? Like I said it goes on great when I touch one speaker connection to the red power line by way of a short wire crossing over.
I know something is amiss because while it`s ok with my ipod shuffle in the front 3.5 input, when I put a cd in it just flashes on aNd off with error.
Any suggestions please
Perhaps someone could tell me how just the front speaker wires connect, do they need at some point to be grounded...confused...BTW I have done tons of searching