It's been probably 15 years since I've needed to add a subwoofer to a car to round out the sound but alas, here I am, this time with a Maserati that apparently already has premium sound.
I bought a 600w 10" kicker and a 300w Kicker Monoblock amp because I'm not looking to blow the trunk off the car. I just want to fill in the missing frequencies.
So I wire it all up and it works out of the gate but lows are really muddy. The Tesla accomplishes more with an 8" subwoofer stuffed in the side of the trunk than this thing does. At first I thought it was a matter of it not getting enough power but at half volume it doesn't sound good either. The lows are just really loose.
I don't know what to do. I do have a shitty wiring kit for the amp but given the fact that this is happening at lower volumes too I'm assuming that's not to blame here right?
The way I have it wired is the single subwoofer speaker high output is going into a high/ low converter then into the amp. Gain on the converter is all the way up and gain on the amp is at about a 1/4 way up. No bass boost turned on on the amp. Crossover is all the way up to 120 but moving it has no affect as I'm using the signal from the stock sub which is already frequency capped I'm sure.
WTF am I doing wrong?
I bought a 600w 10" kicker and a 300w Kicker Monoblock amp because I'm not looking to blow the trunk off the car. I just want to fill in the missing frequencies.
So I wire it all up and it works out of the gate but lows are really muddy. The Tesla accomplishes more with an 8" subwoofer stuffed in the side of the trunk than this thing does. At first I thought it was a matter of it not getting enough power but at half volume it doesn't sound good either. The lows are just really loose.
I don't know what to do. I do have a shitty wiring kit for the amp but given the fact that this is happening at lower volumes too I'm assuming that's not to blame here right?
The way I have it wired is the single subwoofer speaker high output is going into a high/ low converter then into the amp. Gain on the converter is all the way up and gain on the amp is at about a 1/4 way up. No bass boost turned on on the amp. Crossover is all the way up to 120 but moving it has no affect as I'm using the signal from the stock sub which is already frequency capped I'm sure.
WTF am I doing wrong?