anyone know if you can hook up a subwoofer to a regular deck in a car?

[niwi7]

i have an eclipse with a pretty good sounding 4 cd changer. Could I buy one of those amplified bass tubes and hook it up to the stock 4 cd changer deck? or is this not possible and i'd need a new deck?

 

[RagingBITCH]

Yes.

 

[gigapet]

AFAIK most if not all subs need to be powered by an amp.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: gigapet
AFAIK most if not all subs need to be powered by an amp.

Most of these "tubes" have small amps built into them.

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: gigapet
AFAIK most if not all subs need to be powered by an amp.

amplified bass tubes

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: gigapet
AFAIK most if not all subs need to be powered by an amp.

Most of these "tubes" have small amps built into them.

Hence "amplified bass tubes".

 

[gigapet]

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: gigapet
AFAIK most if not all subs need to be powered by an amp.

Most of these "tubes" have small amps built into them.

meh didn't read the OP just read the subject line.

Subs with amps built in are usually crap tho

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: niwi7
i have an eclipse with a pretty good sounding 4 cd changer. Could I buy one of those amplified bass tubes and hook it up to the stock 4 cd changer deck? or is this not possible and i'd need a new deck?

you mean the bazookas?

 

[Anubis]

yes just wire it into the rear speakers, if the sub has its own amp its fine, my friend does this, his sub has a built in crossover aso so it works fine

he has a 12 in alpine sub and a 350w rockford amp

 

[niwi7]

yes, I see them on ebay for around 200, and since I already have 4 CD changer and the speakers sound good to me the only thing that would be worth it to me would be to somehow add a little extra bass.

 

[gigapet]

Originally posted by: niwi7
yes, I see them on ebay for around 200, and since I already have 4 CD changer and the speakers sound good to me the only thing that would be worth it to me would be to somehow add a little extra bass.

spend the extra money and get a real box and an amp. Its well worth it.

 

[0roo0roo]

there are infinity box sub with built in amp.

 

[0roo0roo]

oh u going for 200... at that price i guess tube is about all u can get.

 

[niwi7]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
oh u going for 200... at that price i guess tube is about all u can get.

well if I was going to go and get an all-out system I wouldn't mind spending 500-800 but I had a little fender bender the other day that cost me 550 so there goes the money I was saving for system... so bass tube will have to do lol...wasn't sure if I wanted to get a whole system anyway

 

[franksta]

If you get one of the amplified tubes it will need to have a line-level input or you'll need a line-level to low level converter, either way you'll have to splice into a speaker wire to get signal to it. I've been told that Dave Navone's are great ones to use. Here's the site for them. http://www.autosound2000.com/

 

[niwi7]

Originally posted by: franksta
If you get one of the amplified tubes it will need to have a line-level input or you'll need a line-level to low level converter, either way you'll have to splice into a speaker wire to get signal to it. I've been told that Dave Navone's are great ones to use. Here's the site for them. http://www.autosound2000.com/

thanks... is this hard to do myself? the bazooka tubes that I have been looking at on EBay say they have Speaker and Line Level Inputs...so this is a good thing?