Hi
Unfortunately, i spilled a can of coke on my seats and the mcintosh amplifier model - EF12591 decided to stop working. I was trying to get a second hand one but seems to be too expensive for a second hand one. So i am researching about replacing it with an after market amplifer. Right now i am looking for a 5 channel amplifer as the centre speaker is already dead and i am not too concerned about that one.I dont want to change the stock HU and i love the stock look of the car and has aloready installed USB module for playing songs from my usb stick and AUx. So a 5 channel which can do my FL, FR, RL, RR and the sub will be fine. i looked into the connections and was able to find all the wires and the signals which they carry from the following post. Please scroll down all the way to the bottom where the mcintosh system wiring details are given.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthr ... stcount=12
Also i found this decent 5 channel amplifer from clarion with dimensions perfect to fit in the same slot as the mcintosh ones. The amp has both low level and high level inputs.
http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_933 ... C2510.html
so my questions as re follows.
Can i connect the 20pin DIn wire coming from the HU by cutting and splicing the wires and joining them with the ones going into the clarion amp? Do i have to use the high level input or the low level input of the Amplifer input? Just cos the amp already has a high level input, do i still have to use a Line level converter? Is there any other 6 channel amplifers that u recommend to do all the 14 speakers? Also the amplifier does 50W RMS at 4Ohms. Will that be too much for the speakers to handle?
I am also bit confused that the mcintosh amplifier has only one pair of out put for FL and FR speakers. So is there a X over in between the amp and the front door speakers to power all the 5 speakers on each door?
I am inviting all the members to provide as much information as you can as this post will be very helpful to the people who wants to keep the stock HU and speakers but just want to change the amplifer.
Your help is really appreciated