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does anyone know how to tap the signal from the rear speakers?
i'm installing my system right now and i want to get it done before it gets dark
someone please respong quickly!!!

 
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either you will have to use speaker level inputs if your amp takes them or convert them to RCAs.

 
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can you clarify a little more?

 
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it depends what you're inputting it into. If your amp has speaker-level inputs, you can either cut the wires to the rear speakers, and then splice them back together with anothe wire (to your amp) with them, or what I did is use tap splices. You just snap them around the wire, and they tap it for you; no cutting required; its really nice. If your amp only has RCA inputs, you then need a little box (i forget what they're called) that converts it from a high-level signal to low-level. That'll run you about $20 or $25. I just used tap splices, and then my amp has speaker-level inputs.

 
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thanks jwalker, u take only the + wire going to the rear speakers and splice them right? are they the red ones?

 
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i thought the wires were blue/white and blue/black

 
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i spliced mine with those little crimp things... blue/white is the positive.. wire that to ur positive input......

blue/black is the ground or (-) wire that to the negative input

Be sure to splice them at different lenghts along the wire so if the crimps come loose, nothing electrically retarted will happen.

 
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if they were at the same length along the wire, and the exposed wire touched... i dont' know what would happen but i do know that (+) doesn't go with (-) usually.

 
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what amp is it? some of those amplified bass tubes and such have places where the wires go w/out anything extra. wire with white on it is positive, black is negative as said above. you should only need to tap one speaker, don't use the + from each speaker, rather use the + and - from one speaker.

 
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thanks for the info
but what i don't understand now is that my amp has a bin type connection for the high input. So how am i suppose to wire the spliced + and - to the connection?

 
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my amp is phase linesr pl300 btw if that helps

 
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i have a Sony 1000w amp. Im mono bridging it, so I have the + from one speaker and - from the other; but you need to tap the - also, you can't just ground it like the power.

 
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holy crap, youre installing a phase linear with high level inputs?

thats a high class f*cking rare amp

 
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yeah i was betting on a bazzoka bass tube, or the NOS bottle.

what are you pushing with that amp?

 
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i'm pushing a cdt audio's ms-100 right now and i'll eventually change out the stock hu.

Ludhamtheory, is pl300 really a rare amp?
How is the quality? Cuz my friend who sold it to me didn't tell me that.
The only thing I don't like about it is that it's pink

 
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and because i'm gonna eventually install an aftermarket hu, i think i'll get some rca wires and a converter and connect it to the stock hu.

 
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phase linear's are supposed to be phenomenal amps.