subwoofer

[encantotom]

last year i put in a new car audio system in the front and the back. a good clarion system with Focal speakers. the bass is good but not quite enough.

my onkyo home theatre system sub is way too big to put in the coach so i have been trying to figure out where and what to do for a sub. i am also putting in new speakers as the ones i put in last year are not good enough for me. i bought new cambridge soundworks satellite speakers to mount vs the hidden ones in the valences i was trying.

so, i wanted a sub i could use for both home theatre and the car stereo.

to get the bass i want i will need a powered sub. so, i settled on a 12v powered system that will work for both systems up front. i ordered online a blaupunkt thb200a. small yet very powerful. it will be mounted under and behind the drivers seat. the sub turns itself on when detecting an input signal. it has both line level and speaker input so i used the speaker input for the home theatre and the line level for the car stereo.

since only one at a time will be on, having both hooked up at the same time is no problem.

it had a bad hum using the line level inputs and not the onkyo reciever so i got a ground loop isolator and it totally stopped it.

the bass is quite amazing for a small unit and has more power than i need. sounds really really good.

will put the satellites in over the next week as well.

will have to take the valences down which is a bit of work, but not too bad.

later

tom