8 track speaker wiring

landon1 · Post by **landon1** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:53 pm

so, i've come into a bit of a hold-up. i've talked to some people with 8 track players for sale and they all have one wire per speaker, but a common ground for them - how in the world do these things hook-up? every stereo now has a positive and a negative for each speaker....
thanks

72RoadRunnerGTX · Post by **72RoadRunnerGTX** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:10 pm

Pretty common for the day, common ground speaker outputs. Maybe a whole whopping 5 watts of noisy power to boot, to drive those 6x9â€ three ways. Floating ground power amplifier sections came about in the late 70â€™s early 80â€™s or so when output power approached 15-20watts. The common ground output is pretty easy to boost with modern day amps however.

landon1 · Post by **landon1** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:13 pm

so the negative terminals on each speaker connect to the same wire from the stereo? strange

i'm trying to figure it all out, as i'd like the 8 track (hopefully with fm), but i'll probably have to get an external amp, since my exhaust is pretty loud.

72RoadRunnerGTX · Post by **72RoadRunnerGTX** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:27 pm

landon1 · Post by **landon1** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:00 pm

wow...crazy...i wonder if i'll have to add an amp to it just to be able to hear

Serious Satellite · Post by **Serious Satellite** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:52 pm

We had 'em back then. . .it had to be loud enough to fight over the Cherry Bombs. . . . .and not the Runaways Cherry Bomb, although they were pretty hot, especially Joan Jett. ..