Amp and line driver install question?

[Bass911 10+ year member]

If I have AC Matrix running to an amp and daisy 2 more amps from the first amp, does the 2nd and 3rd amp receive the same voltage increase as the first amp?

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[2010HHRUMADBRUH 10+ year member]

I think if you split an RCA at the source (for example, a Y splitter at the out put of the line driver) each RCA will get HALF.

So you might be getting 1/3 to each amp.

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

so you have an Audiocontrol Matrix Line Driver and you're not running all your amps directly from the line driver?

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

If I have AC Matrix running to an amp and daisy 2 more amps from the first amp, does the 2nd and 3rd amp receive the same voltage increase as the first amp?

Depends on what you mean by daisy. If you split the line driver to each amp, then yes. If you run the first amp's preout signal to other amps, then they get whatever the preout is.

I think if you split an RCA at the source (for example, a Y splitter at the out put of the line driver) each RCA will get HALF.
So you might be getting 1/3 to each amp.

No.

 

[Bass911 10+ year member]

What I mean by daisy chain is when the first amp has an output to run rca's to the input of the next amp. I don't have the Matrix. I was just using it as an example. I have an Eqx with 9.5v max output, but I will have 3 amps on highs and mids. My x940bt only has 2v outputs. I had a Kicker Kq9 on the Clarion double din with the same setup and it was louder and cleaner. I still have the Kq9 but I was just trying to use the x940bt's 8-band eq instead. I can tell that I already want to use a line driver, and please don't start schooling me on how a line driver doesn't make it louder? I do have one of these and it does exactly what I need, but never hooked it up. It is supposed to put 4 volts rms, but it is Audiopipe and I don't expect much. You can run up to 3 4ch amps and up to 3 mono amps off it. Sound Processors | SPLIT-3003 The Kicker and Eqx line drivers are way stronger than the Audiopipe.