Where do I find a 2011 E550 HK Harness? I want to connect to the existing harness in back so i can solder onto the aftermarket harness and not modify the existing one.

For instance, I will have my JL HD600/4 feed into the aftermarket harness which connects to the car's existing harness to feed the speakers....

I have done internet searches and can't find one. Or even a Technic one.. Can someone help? Thanks!

 

Better read up on MOST rings before trying to solder an optical connection.

 

LOL. i'm obviously not going to solder a fiber optic cable. thats not what i am asking. see, the fiber optical cable goes into a Mobridge DA1 which feeds into an Audison Bit 1 (or other processor) which feeds into the amps (HD600/4 and so forth) which the output of the amp goes back into the wiring harness into the speakers. I am completely bypassing the HK amp all together.

 

Sounds like you have it under control

 

BTW www.kabeldaviko.de is a great resource for wiring harness. Ask for Frank.

 

If you really need the reverse, you will need to find a used factory amp, and tear it down to the terminals. From there you will solder wires to the pins that go to your factory speaker wires.

Personally, I would not waste my time, as it would be more of an **** ache then any reward. just strip back the factory wire shielding, poke hole through the wires, and insert the new wire into it, and twist it, then tape it up. You can also cut the wires a few inches off the factory plug and solder the new to it.

I have not found the reverse harness for the HK amp.


Also on your previous post about the DA1 and bit 1... You should check to see if the comand has the speaker wires enabled, if you do, it has an almost flat signal from 20-20k, It did need a bit cleaning up at 40hz I believe, but from there on up it was flat.

you can still use the bit1 or go to bit 10... or the prima 8 channel and say the hell with the jl

 

whoa whoa whoa! jbondox!! you are on it! we are on the same frequency! you understand what i am trying to do. but wait! say what about wires behind the command center!? are there some!? cause i could use my JL audio clean sweep! How do i know? this is the first i have heard of it.
i have a 2011 e550.

 

pull command there is a group of 8 in the connector next to the power, ground, CAN.... no clean sweep, audison bit10 clean sweep is going to do nothing as the signal is pretty much flat all the way through

 

Why is this the first I am hearing of this? And why isn't anyone else doing this? Everyone is tapping into the fiber optic. Why is there 8 outputs? There isn't 8 speakers in the car I believe. Would a simple summing device suffice? But I know a processor is best.

 

And the bit 10 only has 4 inputs which I believe I would need a summing device... Thoughts?

 

8 speaker wires + 4 pairs

not all vehicles have active speaker outputs

 

Does this look right? i disconnected my command center. can you locate the speaker outputs? can i test them?? this would make everything so much easier!!!
One is a pic i found off the internet. the other is my actual harness after taking the command center out...
Again, 2011 e550

 

it doesnt have the speaker wires in it. what city you in? if you were close to cleveland i would fix it so it does

 

I'm in Indiana. Cleveland is. It far. I will pay you.

 

How do you know that the speaker output works? How do you know that the signal is flat? what is your experience with this? do you have a harness for this section of the stereo?... I'm very interested and intrigued.

 

I connected some speaker wires to the pins. No output... I disabled MOST in engineering mode and set amplifier from "external" to "internal". Nothing changed. MOST didn't even shut off.
This isn't looking promising... Back to the mObridge.

 

first off, i have to say jbondox is a freaking genius!!! after starting the car just now, command finally took my engineering parameters and i have analog output on my radio!!!
jbondox, you are a genius sir.
I just have to find a harness now that connects to it...

 

sorry been off the grid, many years experience, used an rta to measure the output signal. glad you got it, have to be careful though in engineering, i seen many people screw it up

 

harness... this might work for you, and take the speaker output out of the harness and plug into the factory. if not the harness on a parrot bluetooth kit will work

 

Ok. I tested the output. It is very poor. At anything more than half volume, it becomes very distorted. I was shocked at how easily it was distorted. So I'm not sure I can use it....
I made a make shift harness and connected it to an 8ohm speaker from the house. Thoughts on this?

 

there is no way it is crappy, i have done many, rta image of the factory output before using a bit 1 for correction

 

and for a factory signal... that is basically perfect!

 

I get that. But I'm concerned about the distortion. Why would it distort so bad anything more than half volume? It's so bad at about 3/4 up, it's almost inaudible.

I'm not doubting you man. I've gotten this far simply because of you. You know your stuff!

Do I have an engineering setting off that is driving the output too strongly? I wish you were actually here to help. Lol