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Ah ok, makes much more sense now, i was thinking the new one was an oem radio.

The radio output signal for remote amp/antenna should be able to be used, but under two conditions. First, make sure that the bose amp requires a 12v turn-on signal. I'll google it myself today, but just make sure its not a weird 5v or so signal requires and a 12v would damage it. Second, as long as the amp turn on/antenna wire is the one and the same wire yes. On some radios, mostly higher optioned ones, they amp turn on and antenna are different, whereas the antenna signal wire only sees 12v when the headunit is set to "radio". When on CD or aux, it lowers the antenna.

I'll post back in a bit with what I can find out about powering up the bose amp.

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All you got to do is wire it up color to color and hook the remote turn on wire off the aftermarket deck to the solid blue wire on the wiring harness to turn the bose amps on. It works fine like that. The only problem with that is you get some background hiss and you have very limited volume control. Meaning that if your volume on your stereo goes to 80 and normally it will max out and distort around 70ish then if you got in with the bose system you will max out and begin to distort around 40ish. But the volume at 30 with the bose system will be like it would be normally at 65ish. I personally recommend replacing all the bose stuff with aftermarket equipment. But you can put a aftermarket deck in with the bose system without a "special" harness. You can't put aftermarket speakers in with the bose system cause the bose speakers are 1 ohm and most aftermarket speakers are 4 ohm which would be very week in the bose system.

this whole thread seems informative, explains a little about the high/low level input option, ie: if you use rcas off the headunit, cut the ends off, splice them into the stock speaker leads in the stock dash harness, the hiss/distortion would be corrected.

http://www.camaroz28.com/forums/car-...p-system-6825/

Most of the time when we do only change out the HU with an aftermarket one is when something happens to the Bose HU and they don't have the money to change out the speakers at the same time. You can also use RCA's coming off the aftermarket deck if and cut the other end off and hardwire it to the wiring harness to use the low level outputs of the stereo instead of the high level outputs. This will make it alot cleaner (no hissing) and will fix the volume control problem. But when you do that then you get the "turn off pop" from the Bose amps. I can't stand the pop so if you was going to do that I'd rather live with the hiss and limited volume control then listen to the "turn off pop". Of course the best was and I strongly suggest is don't bother with mixing aftermarket and Bose stuff, and just do a "Bose-sectomy" and replace everything with aftermarket equipment and be done with it. My thought on the Bose system is "No highs, no lows, it must be Bose!!"

personally, I would try the RCA output method in order to maintain low level signals to the individual amps. but with the turn-off pop, i dunno then.


OR, just change out the 4 speakers with standard ones and run wires which isn't hard at all....