My friend has a GEM, it's like a street legal golf cart made by Chrysler and I was wondering in theres a way to hook an ipod directly to car speakers with no head unit? What would power the speakers?

THANKS!

 

Why would the cart have speakers and no head unit? Are you saying that you are thinking of adding just speakers? If so, no, the ipod will not drive speakers directly. You would need at the very least, a small power amp. With a power amp, the ipod itself could theoretically act as source and preamp since you have volume control and rudimentary tone controls. I run my self powered Bose speakers that way all the time. Those Bose are speakers with a built in power amp that run off 12VDC or 120VAC.

 

just get one of those ipod docking stations if you want to be as minimal as possible.

 

the point is though, hes going to need some sort of amp. either a hu or a small external amp. to answer your question, an i pod will not drive speakers

 

Ok, thanks, i'll just throw a cheap headunit in then.

 

No, you cannot. Something has to power the speakers, and the IPOD doesnt have enough power to move them.

 

YES....
I had seen my first set up at SEMA in november in a Rhino

Now 2 friends have that setup

One is a custom sand rail 4 speakers and 2 @ 10" with a amp rca out to 1/4 jack
the other has a Rhino NO car stereo either just speakers and a amp

 

hes asking if you can power the speakers with just an I-POd, and the answer is NO. as you said in your own post, the set up you refer to as powered by an AMP, not the I-Pod.

 

Let's say an amplifier puts out 50 volts

An ipod/mp3 player? .0050 volts

no ,i dont think you'd be able to hear much

 

No, you guys, Picturepro does understand. He is just elaborating on the no head unit concept. I've seen this done on boats too. Just an amp and speakers and a switch to turn on the amp. I've seen it done with a walkman, discman, and with an ipod.