Bass tube or Sub Woofer?

[slugger]

I would like to beef up my bass a little. I don't want anything HUGE to inhibit the use of my trunk too much. But I am looking for a fairly easy solution to upgrade the bass sound and get more out of my disk changer and receiver.

Can I use a bass tube or is a sub woofer better? Please let me know what you've found successful and what you'd recommend, and specifically what model/brand you like. I'd like to spend a couple/few hundred.

Thanks for your help!

[Taplin06]

I have a 12 inch subwoofer in a Alpine enclosure(Type R i think). It produces alot of bass for only a 12in.

I also have a Alpine MONO amp, pic/info here (http://ultimateelectronics.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=18&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=ALPMRPM350) .


Alpine is very good! I have used them for a while now and have never had any problems. However I have never tried a bass tube.

Also, you may want to buy some Dynamat if you do not want it to sound too rattlely from the outside.

[fastmayte]

one thing i hate about benzes, the trunks are so compresed that the sound is hard to get through.

go with a sub. and espcially a DVC high wattage one. i highly doubt that the tube will sound good.


my 2 polks didn't cut it at all. my single mtx is ok but isn't loud outside the car. these subs were alot better in civic / vw trunks. :(

[crazy00c230k]

i used to have only one 12" kicker solo baric L7 w/a 1600 watt amp...it bumped pretty hard and didnt take up much trunk space at all

[audiophile]

at the end of all of this, it really comes down to want knid of sound are you after ?

[ricerokets4life]

ive heard from many people that bass tubes dont do much. just go for a sub.

[slugger]

Thanks for all the help and input.

I called Crutchfield after looking at supposedly compatible equipment online, and they told me that working with the Bose system is a real pain in the ass. They advised me that it would be better to change the entire system than add to the Bose, and therefore I should just leave it alone.

I know I'd have to probably replace and add an amplifier as well as a sub, but I don't want to do it if there are going to be compatibility issues.

Has anyone added components to the Bose sytem or have you just replaced the entire system?

Thanks again...

[audiophile]

it's basically the same thing adding an amp to the bose sys or a regular sys. it's not hard at all. pretty straight foward. your are going to need a line level output conveter for your RCA's and tap a switched soure for the remote, other than that it's cake:)

[pnsji]

The subwoofer will give you much better sound than a bass tube. Depending on what you are after, any of them could be good.

If you want to add extra bass with your current bose system, it is very doable/easy.

[davis449]

I have a sub and amp, how hard is it to hook this to the Bose in my car? Pardon my lack of knowledge when it comes to car audio, but there's a place on my amp for high level inputs, does this mean I can tap a signal from my speakers run the power/ground and run it like that controlling the bass level on the amp itself?

[Taplin06]

Davis, im sure there is a way to use your Bose unit, but im not sure it will be easy. You could always buy one of those FM modulators..

[audiophile]

Originally posted by davis449
I have a sub and amp, how hard is it to hook this to the Bose in my car? Pardon my lack of knowledge when it comes to car audio, but there's a place on my amp for high level inputs, does this mean I can tap a signal from my speakers run the power/ground and run it like that controlling the bass level on the amp itself? yes you could do that but, it's better to get a line output converter(so you can use rca's), it will sound much better;) oh yeah don't forget that remote wire.:rolleyes:

[audiophile]

Originally posted by Taplin06
Davis, im sure there is a way to use your Bose unit, but im not sure it will be easy. You could always buy one of those FM modulators.. an FM modulator is for an auxilary audio source (i.e. iPOD, minidisk player, etc..) what you probably meant to say was a line output converter.:D

[davis449]

Davis, im sure there is a way to use your Bose unit, but im not sure it will be easy. You could always buy one of those FM modulators..

I was kinda wondering about this one!:D Anyway, thanks for your input guys, that was gonna be my backup plan if I wasn't able to sell it on ebay, but it sold late last night for a hell of a lot less than I paid for it! But that's life.