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Old 05-12-2009, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by brianzero View Post
My last try will be to wire past the fader. Just a word of caution, the back most part of the kenwood (the heatsink) gets wicked hot because of this problem. It felt like it could even start a fire.
When using the headunit amp, the heatsink will get hot anyway, regardless of how you wire up your system. My Blau did the same, and I wasn't too keen about using it because of that...so I went for pre-out to external amps as a result.
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