Installing a sub
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Installing a sub
Hi everyone,
Just bought a 2000 A4 1.8T Quattro. It's got the Bose stereo in it. I don't mind keeping the speakers, but I'd like to put my sub in the trunk. It's just a 10" MTX in a shortened Bazooka tube. Powered by a 200W Pioneer amp. Nothing fancy. But I was wondering if someone had a suggestion on the best way to get a signal to the amp. In my last car, I just taped the rear speaker wires for a signal. Suggestions? Thanks a bunch!
~Jeff P
Just bought a 2000 A4 1.8T Quattro. It's got the Bose stereo in it. I don't mind keeping the speakers, but I'd like to put my sub in the trunk. It's just a 10" MTX in a shortened Bazooka tube. Powered by a 200W Pioneer amp. Nothing fancy. But I was wondering if someone had a suggestion on the best way to get a signal to the amp. In my last car, I just taped the rear speaker wires for a signal. Suggestions? Thanks a bunch!
~Jeff P
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I just did this, either way takes a bit of patience.
The amp is in the sidewall of the trunk on the driver's side.
Just in front of the CD changer/nav/tool kit area.
I tapped into the common ground and the line leve outs and the remote turn on for my amp. I used the pin out diagram that is easily found in this forum.
The other way is to get to the rear speakers and disconnect them and use a high quality high level to line level converter (around $40 or so). This involves basically removing the entire rear interior of the car with the back seats folded down.
A couple of thoughts:
1. You will likely remove the interior anyway to properly run the wire to and from the amp, so there's really no way around this.
2. I left my rear deck speakers in and after 1 day, I think I am going to remove my rear interior again and take them out. I don't think they are compatible with the subs I put in, meaning with the rear deck speakers using the trunk as a resonator, and the subs doing the same thing, I think the subs are ramming a bunch of air into the back of my deck speakers and making them sound boomy, not tight.
3. It's going to take longer than you think to do properly. It's not overly difficult, it's just that you have to take a ton of stuff out to get the access you need, then put it all back.
Just in front of the CD changer/nav/tool kit area.
I tapped into the common ground and the line leve outs and the remote turn on for my amp. I used the pin out diagram that is easily found in this forum.
The other way is to get to the rear speakers and disconnect them and use a high quality high level to line level converter (around $40 or so). This involves basically removing the entire rear interior of the car with the back seats folded down.
A couple of thoughts:
1. You will likely remove the interior anyway to properly run the wire to and from the amp, so there's really no way around this.
2. I left my rear deck speakers in and after 1 day, I think I am going to remove my rear interior again and take them out. I don't think they are compatible with the subs I put in, meaning with the rear deck speakers using the trunk as a resonator, and the subs doing the same thing, I think the subs are ramming a bunch of air into the back of my deck speakers and making them sound boomy, not tight.
3. It's going to take longer than you think to do properly. It's not overly difficult, it's just that you have to take a ton of stuff out to get the access you need, then put it all back.
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