I searched and found many threads, too many as it became confusing. I went through many of them and seemed to cross most of the problems other people had off my list. Yet I'm still having, what appears to be a common issue.
98 Cobra with the Mach 460, with slave CD player. I am replacing just the headunit. I like the system but I want bluetooth streaming. I bought the 70-5510 Metra harness and a Boss HU with front and rear RCA outputs.
The radio only has blue (ant), yellow (mem/bat), red (power), and black (ground). It doesn't have a separate amp power out the guy I talked to at Crutchfield said to use the blue (ant) for amp because the Boss unit has power there all the time and works as an amp signal as well. Seemed strange, but ok. The other RC harness is pretty straight forward, rr, rl, fr, fl. No problems there as far as I can tell.
Radio powers up but it sounds like it's only coming out of the tweeters and the balance doesn't work. The sound sort of changes, but does not cut off one side or the other. Fade seems to work fine, but again only sound from the tweeters. Gets loud, but doesn't sound full obviously.
I tossed a few ideas out in my head but I don't know if I'm on the right track. Everything worked fine with the stock radio and cd player. Sounded great actually. I'm a punk/metal guy so I'm not looking to blow doors off. Just hear my music full and loud with good bass and highs.
I am wondering if the ant wire to signal the amp is the problem. Also I see the connector shows amp ground, which I don't have anything for. Also I didn't reconnect the two black chassis wires. One went to the frame of the radio the other to the frame of the CD player. Not sure if that's an issue.
Also when I switched around the RCA wires to the back of the radio, just for craps and giggles, I get the same results. I can mix them around and get the same sound no matter which ones are connected to which jack.
I think I covered most of it, any ideas would help.
Sorry for asking a question that's been asked a million times, but after searching and reading I didn't come across any solutions that I hadn't already corrected or tried. Except the ones I noted, lack of amp ground and using the ant wire to signal the amp.
98 Cobra with the Mach 460, with slave CD player. I am replacing just the headunit. I like the system but I want bluetooth streaming. I bought the 70-5510 Metra harness and a Boss HU with front and rear RCA outputs.
The radio only has blue (ant), yellow (mem/bat), red (power), and black (ground). It doesn't have a separate amp power out the guy I talked to at Crutchfield said to use the blue (ant) for amp because the Boss unit has power there all the time and works as an amp signal as well. Seemed strange, but ok. The other RC harness is pretty straight forward, rr, rl, fr, fl. No problems there as far as I can tell.
Radio powers up but it sounds like it's only coming out of the tweeters and the balance doesn't work. The sound sort of changes, but does not cut off one side or the other. Fade seems to work fine, but again only sound from the tweeters. Gets loud, but doesn't sound full obviously.
I tossed a few ideas out in my head but I don't know if I'm on the right track. Everything worked fine with the stock radio and cd player. Sounded great actually. I'm a punk/metal guy so I'm not looking to blow doors off. Just hear my music full and loud with good bass and highs.
I am wondering if the ant wire to signal the amp is the problem. Also I see the connector shows amp ground, which I don't have anything for. Also I didn't reconnect the two black chassis wires. One went to the frame of the radio the other to the frame of the CD player. Not sure if that's an issue.
Also when I switched around the RCA wires to the back of the radio, just for craps and giggles, I get the same results. I can mix them around and get the same sound no matter which ones are connected to which jack.
I think I covered most of it, any ideas would help.
Sorry for asking a question that's been asked a million times, but after searching and reading I didn't come across any solutions that I hadn't already corrected or tried. Except the ones I noted, lack of amp ground and using the ant wire to signal the amp.