AUX INSTALL & CARVER AMP ?

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easty027

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 South Manchester & East Yorkshire
hELLO ALL

Apologies for what might have been covered so many times before, but i remember reading on here some time ago something about the carver amp not working when the AUX install has been carried out ?.......making the sound quality very poor........Would like to know before i bother installing it on friday.

Has anybody experienced this or have i just dreamt this ?

thanks in advance. :thumbsup:
 
Assuming it can happen (not heard about this myself), I'd guess it's because the Aux socket is essentially analogue, while the Carver/THX/DSP system in older models was digital and issues could arise from the conversion. Just guessing though - hopefully some who knows will be along in a min :tumbleweed:
 
erm, yes lol, but ovrkll's car is one of the newer models like mine is - i've got the DSP system and aux too, but because ours are post-facelift cars, we'll have the analogue dsp system too.
Not saying you'll have troubles, but I don't think the fact that me nor ovrkll have any problems means that you won't either.
 
Screamer said:
erm, yes lol, but ovrkll's car is one of the newer models like mine is - i've got the DSP system and aux too, but because ours are post-facelift cars, we'll have the analogue dsp system too.
Not saying you'll have troubles, but I don't think the fact that me nor ovrkll have any problems means that you won't either.
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Right, im getting a bit confused now. From what i have read and understood (maybe incorrectly) is that the AUX is basically using your car stereo system as 'speakers' when using your ipod, therefore i can sort of see why the amp wouldnt work.....i think.....because the sound generated isnt through the car stereo system ?.........but the AUX :tumbleweed:

mmmmm, not sure now, there must be somebody out there who has the same set us as me on a late 2003 model car with Carver ?......
 
DISCLAIMER: I'm making the assumption that you CAN have problems when adding an aux-in to an 'old system' DSP'd Z4. I've not heard about such problems myself, but then I haven't been here long, nor looked.

The way speakers work - all speakers, in car and not, with a sep amp or not, is like this: take signal from source (iPod playing though the Aux input in your case), amplify it (if you speaker setup has an amp, this is done in the amp, otherwise theres actually an amp in one of the speakers if its a home kit, or the amp is normally in the stereo unit for car setups), then output to speaker cones. So in any case, with any speaker setup and with or without an amp, it goes like this: source > amplify > output. Applying that to you specifically, it means that your aux connection will have to go to the amp (separate in our case), before it can be sent to the speakers. The only potential problem is that the older systems like what's probably in your car were digital - that's to say that the amp worked with digital signals. Unfortunately (and presumably why it was switched to an analogue system in newer cars), all inputs into the system (aux, CD, CD Changer, TV module, etc) are analogue and therefore have to be converted to a digital signal for the amp to work with. I presume, if problems can exist with the older DSP system and aux, that they stem from some issue with converting the aux's analogue signal to digital.
 
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