Firstly i'm embarresed to have to ask a question like this cause I install stereos at Circuit City but i've not ever encountered anything like this.

I just bought the Eclipse AVN6610BT. And the way it works is the factory harness goes into the bluetooth unit and then out into the deck. I have a 4 channel amp that I attached to the speaker wires just behing the deck like we always do, but there is bad distortion whenever I try to go even a little loud. Now i'm woundering if I should attach the amps wires at the factory harness so that it doesn't go through the bluetooth unit (its my theory that the bluetooth unit can't handle the power and is causing the distortion). Does that sound like it would work? Also I was if I should use diodes so that none of the amplifiers' power goes back into the bluetooth unit...does that sound necisary?

Thank you for any of your help in advance!

 

So are you saying instead of running the speaker wires from the 4ch amp directly to the speakers you run them back to behind the HU and connect them to the factory speaker wiring? Show us pix of what you're talking about...

 

Why don't you try running the wires from the amp directly to the speakers themselves, rather than running the amp to the speaker wire at the back of the deck.

 

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What I have done is cut the wire behind the deck and connect my speakerwires to that...so in a sense I have run them directly to the speakers and they are no longer connected to the deck.

To answer both of you i did this becuase at circuit city we use something we call 9con to hook up the 4ch speaker wire to the deck...in one 4 guage tube it has all 8 speakers wires and the remote turn on wire (9 wires)...this makes running the wire much more simple and clean looking.

The whole issue is the bluetooth system... i believe that it transmits the audio to the speakers and not the deck, therefore I can't exclude it from the speakers or it won't work

 

Yes, that makes sense, but it seems funky how the BT integration is on the Eclipse. I always thought it would be another plugin module and it would mute & play through the HU.

 

That definitely makes sense. Kinda what I was saying also, by connecting the amp directly to the speakers, you'd be in a completely different location than the BT unit. Either way, it should work. I think the higher wattage going through the BT unit may have been interfering with the signal.

 

I'm no audio expert but tell me if I right about ur setup


Head unit > Rca > amp > Bluetooth module > Speakers?


Because I gotta beleive you should take that Bluetooth thing out of the equation? Am I not understanding right?

 

I would just take out the bluetooth and make sure that is the part causing the problem. Eclipse's idea of bluetooth integration is a bit disappointing.
Hmmm.... what about this, instead of going to the factory speakers you wire it out to a 3 1/2" speaker tucked somewhere, like your headrest? The bluetooth module itself is driving the front speakers during normal operation, so it should drive a dedicated speaker w/o problems. Keeping the mute wire connected should still mute the HU during a call.

 

i tried the diode isolation idea I had up above and all it did was make the speakers sound perfect and the bluetooth sound like garbage So for tonight i just removed the bluetooth.

This is the new idea that me and my Circuit City peeps came up with today. (I didn't try it cause I ran outta time):
I'm going to take the speaker output wires from the bluetooth and hook them upto RCA wires. Then i'll run it back to my four channel where I'll use RCA y-adapters so that I can input both the bluetooth signal and the deck signal into it. The plan sounds flawless so i'll tell you guys how it goes tomorrow.

 

Flawless, except I still think the output from the bluetooth unit is speaker level, not line level.