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Currently running 5700/5900 multi deck units with dual featured control heads with a single KES-5 speaker at each head. Looking to add a second speaker to be able to hear the audio from the unselected deck. What pins does the second speaker attach to and what is the best speaker audio selection in the programming to accomplish this? Thanks!
 

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There is only one speaker output on the kct72, do hear both decks, use the speaker out on the decks, or add kap2 to each and plug the key 5 into it.
 

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There is only one speaker output on the kct72, do hear both decks, use the speaker out on the decks, or add kap2 to each and plug the key 5 into it.

So how does this work when running dual heads? If you run dual speakers on one head then you wont have any at the other head? It makes sense for a single head setup. Can both decks play audio from the remote head on a single speaker?
 

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The head will only output audio from the selected deck as they only have one amplifier in the head.

If you have two heads, you should have a speaker per head. Plus a speaker per deck if you want to hear the unselected deck.
 

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The head will only output audio from the selected deck as they only have one amplifier in the head.

If you have two heads, you should have a speaker per head. Plus a speaker per deck if you want to hear the unselected deck.

Yes currently have a KES-5 speaker at each head using the audio from the head itself. So if you run a second speaker at each head back to each deck, wouldn't the unselected deck audio at one head always be off because the selected deck is also the deck that is hooked up to the deck? In other words is it possible to run two speakers at each head and hear the audio on both speakers no matter which deck is selected?

I understand how it would work for a single head setup where the audio is run back to each deck instead of using the remote head audio. I see how you could do it for a dual head by having the audio for one head coming from each deck separately (two speakers) and using the remote head audio for the second head (one speaker). How would it be possible to hear both at the second remote head and how would it be wired?
 

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If you have a button programmed for "External Speaker" you can run in Internal+External mode, where both head speakers and both deck speakers would function (great for extra volume), or in "External" where the deck speakers are the only functional speakers. With Internal only, which is what it sounds like you have, then you'll hear only selected audio from the head and unselected from the deck.

It's of note that only one head can control the volume of the deck speakers at once, there's a menu item/button press to toggle between Head 1 or Head 2 being the master volume control. You could wire two speakers at each head back to the deck, but you'll have issues loading down the amplifiers if you're using KES-5 speakers. If you ran an 8ohm speaker, you could run them in parallel as the radio supports a 4 ohm load. You couldn't (shouldn't) run KES-5s in parallel. If you have an inventory of old crap, some of the big Motorola speakers were 8ohm and could be paralleled.

However, you'll run into the training issue of changing control between the volume knobs. There's no function for unselect audio, so you couldn't dedicate a deck speaker to be just unselected audio, you'll have to have dedicated speakers per band.

Hope this helps. I run a KES-5 on each deck and a KES-3 equivalent on each head and in Int+Ext, since I have a very loud vehicle and I want to be able to hear selected audio clearly.
 

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No no no. Again, there is only ONE speaker available at each head. It will have selected audio-whichever deck you have selected to use. The unselected audio will only appear at the external speaker jacks of each deck. To hear that, you must use that or as Evans said, use a KAP-2 in each deck to use a KES-5. There is no "both" speakers available at the head. Period.
Those speakers will have the unselected audio-selected audio goes to the speaker from the head. Volume is controlled at each head.
 
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