Awesome guys, thank you for the responses. Looks like I will in fact go the simple route and use the converter.

I have a 2006 with the Moon and Tunes sound system, and I plan to upgrade the Head unit very soon. I am looking at the alpine cda-9884 or cda-9886. I know that because I have a factory amp then I either need to go preamp out of the new hu, or use the pac oem2 from crutchfield to lower the speaker ou...