Parrot Bluetooth

[boilerdam]

I bought a parrot Bluetooth kit for my B7 A4 with non-Bose symphony II system. The problem is that any sort of audio played thru parrot plays only on the front speakers. The Best Buy installer said he had no idea how to connect it to the rear speakers coz they use a separate amp. Is that true? And I'm guessing this is a common problem bit is there a fix?

Pandora thru just the fronts is so bad!!!

[MphoMash]

Nah, there's a way to connect it, try another installer or ask him to find out, but i think there's an extra component that you will need to make the connection or link the rear speakers

[boilerdam]

Would that be a harness? I tried searching for it but they say there's no harness needed for a b7 non-Bose and mki 9100 Bluetooth kit. I'll try another installer as soon as I find one! :)

[earthtodan]

There are ways to do this if you want to go full-blown stereo, but that's a deep rabbit hole to go down.

[boilerdam]

Oh ok. Could you let me know what the rabbit hole entails?

[earthtodan]

When I had a Parrot (non-stereo bluetooth) it had a thin pair of wires, green and brown, that were an RCA-level mono output. I'm not familiar with the newer products, but if your Parrot is stereo, you should have two pairs. You can either direct these to an auxiliary input through the head unit CD changer port (with an integration harness from Enfig or Kufatec I think) or you can get a 4-channel amp, an external processor with a main input and an auxiliary input, and build a proper stereo. What you cannot do is direct two pairs of outputs to one pair of inputs with an RCA splitter - you need the active processor to do the switching.