Creating Auxiliary Audio Input on Stock '95 Radio

[TallPaul]

No knobs. Wife's '92 Aerostar has a couple knobs (one if volume). Don't know if that radio would slide into the '95 or not. The radio on the '95 is basically impossible to set up with jacks. Can't even tell which is the amp outputs.

Well, I'll try the Radio Shack 100 watt (50+50) amp I got at a garage sale for $2. The fuse holder was partly melted and I am replacing that part. I'll run a smaller fuse (10 amp instead of 15) to begin with and see what happens. It may work, or I may need improved signal with either the FM modulator, or a direct input of the MP3 into the amp which has the RCA inputs (low input) and speaker wire inputs (high input).

 

[TallPaul]

WOW! I have great sound now. I hooked up the 100 watt Radio Shack amp with two cabinet speakers on the back floor. Running the MP3 direct into the amp with RCA plugs on an adapter out the headphone jack. Sound is phemonenal, even sounds clear with the MP3 volume nearly all the way up.

I guess I was scared to use the amp because of the partly melted fuse holder but I replaced that and noticed the old fuse holder did not hold the fuse tightly, which may have been the reason it was partly melted.

I am debating whether to hook the rear pillar mound speakers to the amp instead of the cabinets. Not sure I will get all the base of the cabinets, but I do recall the pillar mount was much louder under the old setup, so worth a try. Else I have to decide on the Scotts or the motorhome speakers rigged into the Scott cabinets--I have one of each right now, a 4 ohm on right and an 8 ohm on left.