I have been searching the forum for hours with little luck. I decided to get a new stereo (legacy LD53UM) and put it in with the scouche harness and mounting kit. It plugged up great and it gets power and everything seemed working fine but i can't get ANY sound from the speakers. Myself, my father (electrician) and my cousin (mechanic) have been working with it all day with no luck. First we checked all the connections but it seems that we can't complete a circuit through the factory wires. If we run a wire from the new head unit to the speakers and we get sound...but i can't get sound through the factory wires. I remember reading something a while back about having to bypass the amp in the trunk but i don't know much about that. Can anyone offer me any advice? I'd be very grateful.

On another note, i was about to give up and put the factory one back in and expected it to ask for the code...but i couldn't even get it to come on. Am i missing something there too?

I have an 01 acura CL-S if that helps any. Thanks everyone

~Ray

 

Halistan, try posting here... I don't know shit about modern A/V equipt. but the audio geeks hang out here:

https://acurazine.com/forums/audio-video-electronics-navigation-22/

 

you have to connect the amp remote or antenna power wire to the factory amp wire otherwise the factory amp wont turn on and you wont get any sound.

 

Hey you guys, i wanted to thank you so much. Those really helped me a lot. Although, i found that the wiring diagram for the 03 is just a little off from the 01 that i have, but its cool, it still made a good reference point and we found the line that went to the amp.
I now have sound but I think the amp is turned up way too much. On level 1 of the radio its as loud as i would normally listen to it on 20 (of the 40 it goes up to). I can listen to it but there is a lot of static accompaning it as well. The aftermarket stereo is a 60x4 as opposed to the 25x4 that the stock is so that combined with the amp i'm wondering if too much power is going to the speakers.

So, my question...is there a way to bypass the amp or turn it down somehow? I don't know much about amps so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

before you try adjusting the non-adjustable amp. try turning your bass and treble controls on your deck to the negatives see if that will turn it down some. if not the only way to bypass your amp would be to find which wires coming in correspond to which wires coming out of the amp. then just cut and patch the wires together to by-pass the amp. though this way you might lose some wattage. 60x4 is peak watts, but that audio deck probably runs at about 16-25 watts RMS. so you might have to turn it up close to your decks peak volume and maybe deal with some distortion of sound due to the pre-amp. so try the audio control first before you go all out with the wiring. let me know how it works out.

 

bypass the amp. unplug the connectors and hook up the speaker in's to the out's. The reason why the sound is so loud isbecause you're sending a powered signal to the amp.

 

Thanks!! Thats exactly what i want to do is bypass it, but at the risk of sounding like a moron (please pardon me if i do) can you give me more details about hooking up the speaker in's to the out's? I'm not exactly sure what you mean? Does anyone have a picture by any chance?

Thanks again

 

I did the bass and treble already. I did that yesterday when i first encountered this problem and you're right, it did help some but not a whole lot.