EcoBeastCA
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I have to call out the guys over at @SoundsGoodStereo first. I'm beginning to hate these guys cause they will spend so much time on the phone with me discussing options and issues, showing great customer service and having the right products available, that they are getting me to spend WAY more money than I ever wanted to. 
I have the awful B&O 8 speaker. So far I have sound matted and added the SGS block off plates, as well as added a Kicker KEY 200.4. After installing the KEY, all of my chimes started coming through the IPC which I can't stand the sound of. From what I've read here, this is due to the factory amp not detecting a load on the speaker outputs and thinking they're missing, so defaulting chimes to the IPC.
The KEY has a built-in ohm load with the "radio detect" feature, but that's only 3 ohms and didn't work. The guys at SGS suggested adding 20 ohm resistors to the speaker leads to fake a speaker load, so I did that to all four channels by splicing the resistor in-line (series) with one leg of the speaker feed. Still didn't work. Just to prove out it wasn't any other issue, I reconnected everything back to factory and the chimes came back through the speakers, so it definitely seems to be a speaker detection issue.
Does anyone know how I can get back to speaker chimes without needing to buy the $800 Zen module? Should my resistors be in parallel instead of series, i.e. wired across the +/- speaker leads rather than in-line with one of them? Is there a very specific ohm load the amp is looking for?
I have the awful B&O 8 speaker. So far I have sound matted and added the SGS block off plates, as well as added a Kicker KEY 200.4. After installing the KEY, all of my chimes started coming through the IPC which I can't stand the sound of. From what I've read here, this is due to the factory amp not detecting a load on the speaker outputs and thinking they're missing, so defaulting chimes to the IPC.
The KEY has a built-in ohm load with the "radio detect" feature, but that's only 3 ohms and didn't work. The guys at SGS suggested adding 20 ohm resistors to the speaker leads to fake a speaker load, so I did that to all four channels by splicing the resistor in-line (series) with one leg of the speaker feed. Still didn't work. Just to prove out it wasn't any other issue, I reconnected everything back to factory and the chimes came back through the speakers, so it definitely seems to be a speaker detection issue.
Does anyone know how I can get back to speaker chimes without needing to buy the $800 Zen module? Should my resistors be in parallel instead of series, i.e. wired across the +/- speaker leads rather than in-line with one of them? Is there a very specific ohm load the amp is looking for?
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