Are there amp jacks on the back of a stock cd player? Im assuming there are not any, is there another way to connect it without an aftermarket stereo?

 

Not unless you get/make a harness that splits open the speaker outputs, but you dont want to hook the speaker outs from the stereo into the RCA jacks on the back of the amp or you'll fry it.

 

you can use a pac sni-35... its a hi to low output converter. it converts speaker output to rca.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by liquid_imagination &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Are there amp jacks on the back of a stock cd player? Im assuming there are not any, is there another way to connect it without an aftermarket stereo?</TD></TR></TABLE> There are no "preamp" outputs on the back of the stock HU, although just about any car audio repair shop could add a set of female RCA pigtails.
There are other ways to connect an aftermarket amp to a stock HU, as mentioned the "hi to low converter" or LOC can be use to convert the high level speaker output to a low level preamp out put, most amps today have a LOC built in, [speaker level inputs]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by King V &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> but you dont want to hook the speaker outs from the stereo into the RCA jacks on the back of the amp or you'll fry it. </TD></TR></TABLE>. That depends on the amp, with JL Audio amps that is exactly what you do, [connect RCAs to the speaker leads and plug them into the RCA inputs.

liquid_imagination There are other options, if your looking to keep the stock HU but want to upgrade the speakers and amplify them and add a sub...
http://mobile.jlaudio.com/prod...id=94 94