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[Jamez26]

Has anyone had any previous experience with subs wiht built in amps. like the one i am looking at on car audio
http://www.caraudiod...w10-p-6314.html
any thoughts appreciated. cheers

[roofless]

I have an alpine variant in my van - superb bass and the remote gain is excellent, but they dont give you same deep bass as a full blown boxed bass driver connected to a more capable amplifier.

it extremely effective though and certainly a space saver.

http://www.caraudiod...000-p-5746.html

[glennthrower]

For space and easy to fit, i would say a built in amp is better. But personally i prefer the seperate amp, you can run more off it later without a new sub then, and also you can tweak the sub a lot better.

My opinion

G

[leaky]

Iv got one of these. http://www.amazon.co...r/dp/B000063TJY
My mate gave it to me and when it was in his old volvo is sounded ok. I haven yet wired it up in my mini though.

[Jamez26]

Roofless - see the alpine link you left is ths better than the kenwood? and would it be suitable for my hu which is a Kenwood KDC-241SA and i have 2 x 6/9's in the parcel shelf which are sony explodes

[roofless]

Roofless - see the alpine link you left is ths better than the kenwood? and would it be suitable for my hu which is a Kenwood KDC-241SA and i have 2 x 6/9's in the parcel shelf which are sony explodes

sorry, cant really guage - I've never heard the kenwood. The first time we used one of these alpines was in a new civic with a very similar kenwood to your head-unit at the front end - it was superb and really changed my opinion on this type of product - so much so I got one for the van.

Edited by roofless, 22 April 2009 - 10:16 PM.

[Jamez26]

would i be able to lie the alpine under the rear bench, just as this is what attracted me to the kenwood

[Jet Williams]

At present, I don't have a sub in my Mini. I do, however, have two Vibe active subs in my Escort; I know these are far too big to fit under the seat in a Mini, and the fact that they are self-contained means that I can remove them in seconds, as I've wired an in-line connector for the power leads. This means it's not a huge operation if I need to remove them for luggage space etc.