got a new head unit, finally! Options

[lagos]

so ive been rocking the oem cd player for the past 4yrs. since i got an ipod for xmas, i thought it was finally time to replace the oem one with something that had at least a line in so that i can play the ipod in the car.

i went with an alpine 9851. anyone else got the same unit? any opinions?

[Silver94CelicaOw...]

So does the avalon wiring harness power the 8" subs off the head unit? Seems like that's a lot to power by itself.

If you mean the stock 8" speakers, they are powered by a second amp that comes stock with the 8 speaker setup....the Avalon harness comes with RCA leads that take a front and rear stage audio signal from your aftermarket headunit and sends it to all the stock amps, thus all 8 of your stock speakers will work, plug and play, with that harness. I, however, am using an external amp to power a set of 8" Kicker Resolution RMB 8 mid-bass woofers instead of the stock woofers. Sorry it took so long to respond to your question.....but if you have any questions regarding the pesky 8-speaker setup just IM me.

Art, im not sure if i understand why anything has to be run through the amp. If you bought your harness from a store, it will utilize the amp that you're talking about. So ditching it isn't neccesary....so if thats what you used for your harness just keep the amp. Otherwise, you can just wire up all the speakers to the leads from the Alpine....the rears directly to the rear leads, and wire the tweeters right into the 6.5" leads from the Alpine but put a low-pass crossover along the line of the tweeters so you dont blow them.

You might have it all figured out or working by now Art, but I just wanted to make sure that I understood what it was you were doing with the wiring. The ways I listed were the only two ways I would really think to do it.