Mitah-Adapter Issues

[Taylor3180]

I have a problem with the oh so fun Mitah adapter. I have had my system hooked up 2 ways with it since I have had it.

The first way I had the Mitah adapter hooked up with the rcas they provide and the system sounded good but I noticed I had no rear speakers and yes everything was hooked up right.

So I read an article on here that says you can still hook up your speakers individually so I hook up the rear speakers with the hard wires ran to them and low and behold the rears work again. But I finish hooking the rest of the Mitah adapter in and then the rear speakers sound like crap. All crackily almost like they are blown yet when the amp under the seat didnt power them they were fine? Also hooked this way when the system turns on I almost get an interference noise but quickly this goes away once the music starts, almost like the amps are competing to turn on maybe? Is there any help anyone can offer?


It's a new alpine deck with new alpine components in the doors and new tweeters with installed bass blockers. The rear speakers have not been changed. But like I said they sounded fine until the Mitah was powered up so it's not the case of a -, to a +.

 

[timm98gst]

well you definitely shouldn't hook up both - it's either just the mitah to the stock amp or the head unit directly to the speakers - if when using the mitah to the stock amp your rear speakers don't work, it could be that the amp is damaged or the wires going from the amp to the speakers are damaged - really the amp isn't all that great so if everything sounds good without it, just go from the head unit straight to the speakers - another option is to replace the amp with an aftermarket one - also, on some alpine head units the rear rca's can be switched to run rears or subs so that's something to check

 

[Taylor3180]

Okay no problem on that. But what size amp should I go with for aftermarket? What all am I going to need to get this set up as well. ### I like the idea of having all 6 speakers inside the car to work.

 

[Defiant]

If that Alpine deck has an amp, it will be putting out two to three times the power the stock Infinity amp does. Don't bother with trying to adapt it.

 

[Taylor3180]

But how do I get my tweeters to work? Do I just wire them in parallel with the front door speakers?

 

[timm98gst]

yes, you can wire them in parallel

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

You were having problems because you hooked up both the MITAH adapter and the deck's speaker outputs. You obviously know that now.

I don't know if the writeup or review you read was the one I wrote, but I know in the past I said even the stock amp sounds better than any aftermarket deck.

I said this because the sound field is correct and it actually does sound better, and it wouldnt be a direct comparison with just having the deck hooked up because you lose the tweets/dash speakers, which is a big part of the system. And not having it does make it "sound" worse.

BUT if you get some proper component speakers with xovers, then comparing the 2, thea ftermarket deck sounds better.

So I would get components to do it the right way, but if not, go ahead and wire up some tweeters parallel, but hope they have some built in xovers or bassblockers or they wont last long.