Car Stereos: 1992 Cadillac Seville, cadillac seville, 1992 cadillac seville

Question
Hey Justin,

I just recently recieved two Boston 10' subs with a 600 watt Baja Amplifier. They are already in a custom box and I really don't know jack about car stereos or hooking up new subs etc. I just bought my first car and it is a 1992 Cadillac Seville, with a bose stereo system. Will I be able to just hook those subs in the place of the car's stock subs in the rear? Or would I be better off taking it to stereo one and having them work with it? My Dad has installed regular stearos/speakers into my brothers other cars, but I've been told dealing with Bose systems is a pain.

thanks,
zach

Answer
Hi Zach,

No you can't just hook the new stuff up to your old system -- you wouldn't want to anyway -- the new stuff is way more powerful than anything the factory bose can do.

What you'll want to do depends on whether or not the amplifier has speaker level inputs.  If it does, tap into the rear speakers' wire (or anywhere you can get at speaker wire easily, and run the spliced in wire to the speaker level inputs on the amplifier, as well as the normal things you'd run to an amp (fused power from the battery, 12V to the remote [which you can probably pick up off of the factory amp's harness], and ground).

If it doesn't have speaker level inputs, you'll need to buy a line converter that converts from high level to low level and then run RCAs from that to the amp.

If you're not comfortable with this, these are all things a car stereo shop can take care of for you.

Justin