Could someone assist me in letting me know the best way to wire up this system in my CrewCab? I would love to avoid some trial and error and get it right on the first shot. A, B or Other suggestions... Thanks in advance.
--Jeff

 

Keeping 6 speakers and the sub. I will not be hooking up the center or the two roof speakers. I think I will try this set up and see how it turns out.

 

If it were me I'd run the dash and doors off the amp, and the rear 6X9's off the deck power. You're sitting up front all the time, you want the loud and clear music coming up from the front. I'm not even changing out my rear 6X9's...I could care less about the "rear fill"

Curious, why did you go with a 5.25" in the front door? A 6.5" can fit.

I'm going with a 2 way 6.5" component in the front, and am undecided on the sub woofer enclosure.

 

What is the per channel output of the stereo? What are you running for power to the sub? Watts? I like the way you have it is long as you have direct control of the sub by the stereo.

 

Be carefull when you parallel speakers as it reduses the impedance (8ohm to 4 to 2 as you parallel more) on the system. Although it will make the amp put out better, the closer you get to 0 the hotter and more unstable they get. Zero is a dead short and is REALLY bad when it comes to amps.

 

Thanks for the advice, I got it figured out. I actually changed out one of the older amps and decided to use an audiocontrol LC6i summing processor to keep my RBZ head unit. Install was much easier once I decided to not 'work around' the equipment shortcomings. I should be finished this weekend and will provide a detailed update. thanks again
Jeff

 

LC6i^^ It's what I was gonna suggest because using both high(speaker wires) and low(RCA) is not the best idea...if it will even work??
Also, when you parallel the speakers ontop of one another, your cutting down the Ohm's and working the amp/HU very hard and can over heat both. You would also be feeding the same power to your tweets as woofers.

All-in-all, 3 pre-outs means you can use either the High side(speaker wires) OR the low side(RCA's) I wouldn't use both, well by both I mean using front(high) and rear(high), you could mix match front(high) and rear(low), why anyone would do such a thing would only be limited to their amplification, nothing else.