Considering Pioneer DEH-80PRS

[PittViper 10+ year member]

I'm pretty sold on this unit now. Now, my last question that needs to be answered. Since I already have a wiring harness for my vehicle connected to the Alpine hu, would I simple unplug it from the alpine and plug into the pioneer? Seems like a stupid question, but, I've only had alpines for years, and only this one hu in this car. If things in the industry are standardized wiring wise, then I should be able to do this, right?

 

[shammyhavik]

I'm pretty sold on this unit now. Now, my last question that needs to be answered. Since I already have a wiring harness for my vehicle connected to the Alpine hu, would I simple unplug it from the alpine and plug into the pioneer? Seems like a stupid question, but, I've only had alpines for years, and only this one hu in this car. If things in the industry are standardized wiring wise, then I should be able to do this, right?

You will have to unplug the alpine And remove the half of the harness that was plugged into the stereo headunit. Then you will rewire the pioneer harness to the car's harness and plug in and play.

A gppd note is all pioneer headunits generally share harness designs meaning you dont have to swap wires between pioneer headunits.

Also the 80prs kicks *** let me tell you my favorite ability is to mute the lows mids and highs all individually giving me the power to find exactly what sounds ****** like immediatly.

Using all three rca inputs is a must

 

[wew lad 5,000+ posts]

Ah that sounds extremely helpful, being able to figure out what sounds like ****. I usually just unplug all RCAs except the speaker im tuning but that makes it way way easier.

What do you do if you have multiple channels for tweets though? Like 4 tweeters on 4 channels, and the amp needs four sets of RCA's for the channels (cant be operated in stereo mode). Just use a splitter? obviously voltage would be split but i feel like it would cause problems when using time alignment because you have a set of tweeters up front and one in the door or the back.

 

[The Camry]

Exactly, especially if you're using a hu designed for this lol cmon people. Just run another set of rcas and set the hu to network mode

Bass blockers on tweeters to protect against any dc pops or the like. 4 channel plus prs to run active. dont be a nitpicking *******

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

bass blockers dont hurt if its used as a bass blocker. Its not like he's using it as a crossover.

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

Bass blockers on tweeters to protect against any dc pops or the like. 4 channel plus prs to run active. dont be a nitpicking *******

Not nitpicking.

Active means all crossovers are set before amplification.

If you are scared of turn on pop that should be fixed.

Crossovers should never let the tweeters go low enough to blow

 

[wew lad 5,000+ posts]

I understand the safety of having multiple checks as long as they don't interfere with each other, but if it's a proper crossover (the pioneer deh-80prs obviously is) then you dont need bass blockers. some still prefer it i guess.

even my cheap SSA crossover does the job just fine, running two tweeters active on an alpine f240 with a cheap JVC HU. Hoping to replace it with the 80prs eventually