My gf's gettin an 05' Civic SE and i wanted to know if it's possible to hook up a sub and an amp to the factory head unit? If so, how?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JMD &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My gf's gettin an 05' Civic SE and i wanted to know if it's possible to hook up a sub and an amp to the factory head unit? If so, how?</TD></TR></TABLE> Yes it is, most amps have "speaker inputs" along with the RCA inputs, you can get the sig. you need off the rear speakers. [parallel] if the amp doesn't have "speaker inputs" you can get a LOC converter, it takes a speaker input and has a RCA output, a good one will also have level controls on it for better matchup to the amp. 94

 

Either get a line level converter to convert the speaker lines to rca's or get an amp that has line level inputs. I have this setup in my truck as it isn't my daily driver and I didn't want to loose the steering wheel controls or buy a adapter and other than crappy bass well basically no bass the mids and highs sounded very good better than most stock stereo's I have heard. The guy had already wired it for an amp before and had a coverter which is what I'm using but my amp also has line level inputs I just don't use them.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hometheaterman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Either get a line level converter to convert the speaker lines to rca's </TD></TR></TABLE>

This is what I did with my 95 Integra. It made a big difference when I installed the amp, sub and all new speakers. I eventually ended up changing out the HU with an Alpine. Bigger difference.