Maruzo
02-17-2005, 08:50 AM
I've reread Donbryce's reply on my thread in mercedesshop. Here's an excerpt:
"From your earlier posts, I gather that the trunk CD changer is dead, so probably not connected to the new Sony at all? But what isn't clear is whether there is an external amplifier involved here as well? Could you clear us up on this point. If the Becker 1692 had leads into an external amp, then they would have been low-level inputs, and the wiring to the speakers would go from the external amp directly. Is there a chance you have connected the low-level inputs to the external amp to the (high level) speaker leads from the Sony? That will do really interesting things to your amp, if there is one!"
Sounds like you and him have the same diagnosis regarding my installation. I have indeed wired the high level speaker leads from the sony directly to the low-level speaker inputs to the oem external amp. So, if this is true, what kind of high to low level converter should I get? Will it need to have 8 connections (for all 4 speakers) ?
"From your earlier posts, I gather that the trunk CD changer is dead, so probably not connected to the new Sony at all? But what isn't clear is whether there is an external amplifier involved here as well? Could you clear us up on this point. If the Becker 1692 had leads into an external amp, then they would have been low-level inputs, and the wiring to the speakers would go from the external amp directly. Is there a chance you have connected the low-level inputs to the external amp to the (high level) speaker leads from the Sony? That will do really interesting things to your amp, if there is one!"
Sounds like you and him have the same diagnosis regarding my installation. I have indeed wired the high level speaker leads from the sony directly to the low-level speaker inputs to the oem external amp. So, if this is true, what kind of high to low level converter should I get? Will it need to have 8 connections (for all 4 speakers) ?