Keep the Monsoon amp or no?

**Dipchef** · 03-26-2012

Of course... I actually have the Metra harness to power the HU left the monsoon amp in place. I split the RCA wires from the HU to the monsoon amp and to my four channel amp, diconnected all the speakers from the Monsoon and ran all new wiring from each speaker back to the four channel...the only thing on the monsoon amp is the Center channel speaker (dash). May not be the most innovative approach but it works flawlessly. Its a good idea tho, if you have a HU that has 4 volt preouts so when u split the RCA's you dont have to worry about distortion. Wish i knew how to make my own mono channel with my 4 channel because id like to have a bit more power coming out of that speaker but oh well...

**Infinity9999** · 03-27-2012

Cool, thanks for the visual. I'll have to look at my Monsoon again, though. Last time I took a peek at it, it looked like it only had an in and out harness as opposed to the terminal connections on the aftermarket amps, so I'll have to see if I can actually run an RCA connection back to it. One more question. When you say you split the RCA wires, does that mean you sent the rear pair from the HU to the aftermarket amp and spliced into the the front pair so that the HU sends the fronts to both the Monsoon and the aftermarket?