Quick wiring question

[bamaster 10+ year member]

My Alpine 9886 head unit has three pairs of RCA outs. One for front output, rear output and sub output.

I have two amps for two subwoofers. How do I send one set of RCA outs to two amps? Splitter? X-over? Recommendations are welcomed!

(For the record, I won't be doing any of this. But I want to buy all the gear before having this all installed. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif)

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[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

There are two ways you can do it you can use on set of patch cables and use a Y splitter for each wire. So at the end use a female to two males connector and connect that one to one amp and do the same for the other. OR you could send two sets of patch cables using the sub out and the rear out and use them. I personally would do the first option. Because you rely only need one rca plug going into a amp to get signal for a sub.

 

[94Mazda626 10+ year member]

Depends on what amps you have, some have pass through connections that you can act a second amp to.

What do you have for an amp.

 

[bamaster 10+ year member]

Depends on what amps you have, some have pass through connections that you can act a second amp to.
What do you have for an amp.

Thanks for the fast replies.

I'm getting two Sundown Audio SAX-125.2 amps.

Looking at the manual for its predecessor, the 100.2, it looks like it amp has RCA outs, which can send signal to the second amp. No?

PDF of SAX-100.2 Manual

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

i'd just use the rca outputs on the amp to connect the second one

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

I agree with that

 

[bamaster 10+ year member]

Eggcellent.

Looking on the KnuKoncepts website, looks like I need a 1/2 meter RCA cable to connect them.

Any suggestion on a distributor? There are three amps total, all of them are Sundown SAX-125.2. Would this one work?

http://www.knukonceptz.com/productDetail.cfm?prodID=KNF-23

(Fuse type?)

 

[94Mazda626 10+ year member]

Should work well.

 

[PSturmer 10+ year member]

"Y" splitter is the way i would go

 

[94Mazda626 10+ year member]

Why would you use a splitter if the amp has the connections built into it to do the job?