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will using rca connector degrade sound quality?

i ordered a alpine ute 80b and i cant connect  sobwoofer wires to it because it doesnt have the plugs
someone told me i could use a rca line output converter, will it degrade the sound quality alot? :(
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erik_squires
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You are giving us precious little here to help you with.  Is this a car stereo?

Do you have a link to pictures of the connectors?  What subwoofer are you trying to connect to?
erik_squires
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There's nothing wrong with RCA, but it's for signal, not speaker level.

Signal level is very small and can't move air becaues it's so weak.
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imhififan
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What subwoofer you want to connect to it?
You need a powered subwoofer with high level (speaker level) input parallel connect to the speaker terminal.
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imhififan
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If your powered subwoofer only has line level input, a speaker to rca (line level) converter will be needed. How much its degraded the sound is depend on the quality of the converter.
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stanwal
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I use RCA for speakers. Gamut and Spendor. Just ordered some new ones with RCAs Don't turn me in!

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