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Car audio speaker wire location?

Dec 30, 2008 by MilkySauce | Posted in Car Audio

I know I am suppose to run the RCA cables and power cables on opposite sides of the car, but which side do I put the speaker wires on, ps I have an amp so I'll be running the wires from my trunk

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Vintage electronics Ken Smith's Eugene home is part workshop, part museum

22.05.13

If you lived in Eugene in the late 1950s and called a repairman to come and fix your broken television set, chances were good that a 10-year-old kid would park his bike in your driveway and ring the doorbell with a cardboard box of tools under his arm, ready to go to work. Kids like that are hard to find.

His name was Ken, also known around town as “Radio Boy,” and he really could fix TVs.

Five decades later, Ken Smith, now 63, doesn’t carry a cardboard toolbox on the handlebars of his bike when he’s about to tackle a problem piece of vintage or antique electronics. He just moves from his living room through a doorway into his workshop, a warehouse-like area neatly stacked floor to ceiling with tubes, wires, parts and amplifiers. Wooden and Bakelite faces of radios built in decades now faded in memory line the walls and top shelves, almost like an art exhibit.

Source: The Register-Guard

How do i hook up car audio in my home? | SpotBlots

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You have to splice the power wires into a 3 prong grounded wall plug. build the box that will hold the deck and speakers in it. speaker wire teh speakers to the deck and well thats it it is pretty simple to do. shouldnt take more then 1 hour to do including making the boxes and long as you have the tools to do it. i.e. screwdriver, jigsaw or skil saw, wire cutter, 3 prong wall plug, some wood screws and or nails, wood glue, and carpet if you are carpeting the box for a finished look.

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i was lookin to do this, and what i was told is that you’d need a power converter to go from your wall outlet with 120volts AC to a 12volt DC current. then you’d hook up your amp to that. if you try to plug your amp into the wall you’ll blow circuit after circuit and possibly damage the amp. have the remote wire going from the power wire. hook the amp up to the subs like normal. and if you have a stereo in the room, it might have rca terminals in the back(mine is a jvc stereo that’s a few years old, so it’s a good possibility that it might), in that case you just put the rca cables into the input of the amp. i havent been able to try it yet, and i dno how expensive converters of this type are either. hope that helps some tho

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