Car Audio Central - Ultimate Car Audio Forum and Community

I have my Diamond Audio System (finally)!!! I had some questions about the RCA amp hookups, so hopefully you can help me out...

I have 2 D3600.1 Subwoofer Amps (1 set of RCA inputs, no outputs)
I have 1 D3400.2 Full Range Amp (1 set of RCA inputs, 1 set of RCA outputs)
I have 1 D3400.4 Full Range Amp (1 set of RCA inputs for the front, and 1 set of RCA inputs for the rear, no outputs)

I have a Pioneer AVIC-N1 head unit that has 3 preouts...sub, front, and rear.
My buddy just gave me 3 Memphis In Line Drivers 16-VBF1 to boost my RCA volts.

My question is how should I go about splitting off of the RCAs after the in line drivers for the subwoofer amps, and the front RCAs, since there is no need to split the rears because I only have the 1 amp that needs those connections. I would like to explore every possible solution because wiring is going to be an issue, and I'd like to know more about this stuff.

Also I will not be running any actual speakers in the rear, I have 2 sets of components that will go in my front door panels and then 1 set of coaxials that will go in my kick panels, this problably doesn't matter, but just trying to give you info on my whole setup.

Hopefull this all made sense, and any help would be appreciated. Here are some manual links if needed:

http://www.diamondaudio.com/products/pd ... Manual.pdf
http://www.diamondaudio.com/products/pd ... 0Final.pdf
http://www.memphiscaraudio.com/products ... &id=68&p=2

Thanks again.

Hay neil why 2 sets of components and a set of coax in the front? I can see two sets of comps, but the coax? I am afraid your going to run into alot of phasing, and time delay issues, and it could easaly kill your front stage.

(2) D612D2 - D6 12" Subwoofers
(2) D3600.1 - Class D Mono Amps

D661s - 6.5" Components
D3400.2 - 2 Channel Amp

D651i - 5.25" D6 Coaxials
D651s - D6 5.25" Components
D3400.4 - 4 Channel Amp


Thats what I have, I just needed the coaxials for the kick panels...

bump

wow thats alot of speakers for a front stage!!

well hopefully it will sound bad ass....but anyway who can help me out with my rca problem

i figured someone would be able to comment on this, i cant be the only one who has ran into this problem...i guess if i dont get any more replies ill try the amp or headunit threads...

If i understand correctly what you want to do is split a front rca out and use it in 2 seperate amps to power your front soundstage correct ? If this is true just get an rca Y cable to split the wire.

quickie pic

(Rca wires)
Right channel ----------------<============ now you have 2 rights
"y" cable
Left channel -----------------<============ now you have 2 lefts.

Hay neal. Check the faq section. There is a post on spliting RCAs.

Neal wrote:i figured someone would be able to comment on this, i cant be the only one who has ran into this problem...i guess if i dont get any more replies ill try the amp or headunit threads...

Yeah, I'm gonna havta sorta ask you to go ahead and NOT repost this in another section.