Car/Home audio question?

Question

I have 4 channel kenwood amp. Its 60 watts rms per channel. I have it wired to 4 infinity reference speakers in my car. I want to put them in my dormroom for the schoolyear. How would i do this. I am getting an ipod dock with RCA outputs so im guessing ill treat that as my head unit and plug my RCA cables into there. I know i have to get an AC/DC converter and that i have to drop the voltage, but i dont know the best way to do this. Do the converters alter the current AND drop the voltage?? Would i just connect the amp power supply wire to the converter?? Anybody who has done this before or knows anything, please let me know. Thanks

Answer 1

The best way, in my opinion, would be to eliminate using the car amp and buy a home stereo receiver.  The cost of buying a power supply to run the amp would be about as much as buying a stereo receiver.  Your amp is 4 channels at 60 Watts per channel RMS.  The fuse for that car amp is probably rated at 15 amps.  The cost of a 12 Volt DC power supply rated at 15-20 amps is going to be more expensive than a cheap stereo receiver.  Not only that, the car amp wants clean DC power.  A power supply/converter will be somewhat noisy and that noise will probably heard through your speakers.  With the stereo receiver, you are not limited to just your ipod.  You will have a tuner and other inputs immediately available.