I have a 4 ch amp I am trying to run a pair of speaker in the kick plate below the rear seat and a sub. I am using the stereo to run the cab speakers.
Before I started the cab speakers worked fine and a small pair of speakers also worked in the overhead locker area above the rear bed and all ran from the stereo. My intentions were to add the amp to run a sub and a pair of coax speakers and still have the existing speakers connected. To do this I was hoping to run RCA leads from stereo to amp for the sub and speaker wire as a high level imput for the additional rear speakers by piggy backing the exisiting rear speaker wires.
I haven't got round to trying the sub yet, currently I am trying to get the rear kick panel speakers working. If I run them off the RCA leads, only one speaker works - tho this maybe a problem with the stereo - but if I plug in the high level inputs all speakers just die, emitting no sound at any volume.
Now I am aware the piggy-backing the high level wires from the existing speaker wires isn't ideal, at worst I had presumed the sound signal would just travel down the wire with least resistance, but even if this somehow trashes the signal to all rear speakers I don't understand why the front speakers would die when they don't even go through the amp?
Can anyone offer any suggestions?
Before I started the cab speakers worked fine and a small pair of speakers also worked in the overhead locker area above the rear bed and all ran from the stereo. My intentions were to add the amp to run a sub and a pair of coax speakers and still have the existing speakers connected. To do this I was hoping to run RCA leads from stereo to amp for the sub and speaker wire as a high level imput for the additional rear speakers by piggy backing the exisiting rear speaker wires.
I haven't got round to trying the sub yet, currently I am trying to get the rear kick panel speakers working. If I run them off the RCA leads, only one speaker works - tho this maybe a problem with the stereo - but if I plug in the high level inputs all speakers just die, emitting no sound at any volume.
Now I am aware the piggy-backing the high level wires from the existing speaker wires isn't ideal, at worst I had presumed the sound signal would just travel down the wire with least resistance, but even if this somehow trashes the signal to all rear speakers I don't understand why the front speakers would die when they don't even go through the amp?
Can anyone offer any suggestions?
