Controlling Car Amplifier Outputs & Inputs

Video Transcript

"Outputs! What are outputs? Outputs are what send and receive signal. Input/output. I shouldn't just say output but inputs too. What is the most conventional form of output input signal? RCA's! It's going to be what you find in ninety nine point nine percent of all vehicles. What are the advantages and disadvantages? Like I explained earlier, you can have all of the technology in the world. It could be shielded, it could be isolated strand technology, there?s all kinds of fancy terminology but then RCA's are still unbalanced pool technology, which I'm not making it out to be a bad thing because there?s very clean RCA driven sound systems. I'm just explaining that's what you will find most of the time. There are other alternatives like digital line balanced inputs. This is a FireWire port but there are other examples of digital line inputs. What that goes through is a line driver, a signal processors, there?s a lot of analog to digital converters that will do that. Very important for signal. There?s even RCA to digital setups but this Zabco again uses FireWire port technology. It's kind of invincible against, ambient distortion. You're not going to hear power transfer from the motor, you're not going to hear EMF distortion from other electrical systems in the vehicle. It usually has a tremendous amount more of output power. For your average system even if you have a line driver there might be four or five volts rms. This can be upwards of sixteen volt signal without even having to have a good head unit. With combined four volt out head unity which is two volts RMS which we will get into later for the standard input for two volts out on the amp. Four volts is great, but for someone that?s competing or being competitive with the product, that's probably not a no."