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Old 05-21-2012, 11:45 PM
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Help with subwoofer

Does anyone know how to get to the rear shelf mounted subwoofer in the HK system?? I am trying to run a signal to a sub
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I knew I remember seeing a thread about this somewhere.. I would think this should help hopefully.. From our brothers on the other part of the forum.. https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...r-install.html
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Our car is so much easier than that. For starters, we have a battery in the trunk in the spare tire well so tapping into power is a lot simpler. Also, we have a subwoofer in the package tray so you can use that as your source. The Harman Kardon amp is in by where our first aid kit is so you can get the line there. I am actually just about to do an install of this myself. I have all my gear in place, I just need to wire it up. I'll try to post up some pics.
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Originally Posted by 604 C63
Our car is so much easier than that. For starters, we have a battery in the trunk in the spare tire well so tapping into power is a lot simpler. Also, we have a subwoofer in the package tray so you can use that as your source. The Harman Kardon amp is in by where our first aid kit is so you can get the line there. I am actually just about to do an install of this myself. I have all my gear in place, I just need to wire it up. I'll try to post up some pics.
Please do. Especially where you tap your sub input from. I'm interested in doing this as well.

Take lots of pics!
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i ended up paying best buy $100 to do it. Couldnt figure out how to get to the sub in the rear shelf.
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Originally Posted by 604 C63
Our car is so much easier than that. For starters, we have a battery in the trunk in the spare tire well so tapping into power is a lot simpler. Also, we have a subwoofer in the package tray so you can use that as your source. The Harman Kardon amp is in by where our first aid kit is so you can get the line there. I am actually just about to do an install of this myself. I have all my gear in place, I just need to wire it up. I'll try to post up some pics.
Please post your install pics.
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This is what I am installing:

Infinity Reference 1600a Mono Sub Amp:

http://bit.ly/JswLQr

!0" Alpine R Series subwoofer wired to 2 Ohms:

http://bit.ly/KNf6Q5

Sub is mounted in a ProBox enclosure which is made of HDF and has a 1" thick front plate instead of the 1/2" thick MDF you see a lot of:

http://bit.ly/Kqs1sm

And I am using some AudioControl to deal with the signal coming from the speaker lines. It also makes it somewhat tweakable and provides signal on without having to wire to accessory power:

http://bit.ly/L11lNK

You can get a remote for the AudioControl but the amp comes with a bass boost dial you can install.

I'll post some pics when I get some time to drop it in. I have the sub in the enclosure, and I have the amp mounted in the spare tire well. I just have to string the wire.

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Originally Posted by jcarlucci1
i ended up paying best buy $100 to do it. Couldnt figure out how to get to the sub in the rear shelf.
I'm putting mine in an enclosure cos open air subs suck. This way I can pop it out if I want the space or would like to drop some lbs.

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