Pioneer TS-WX77A Stealth Sub

[flat6]

Has anyone installed one of these in the Polo? How does it sound?

TS-WX77A Space-Saving Amplified Subwoofer (200W) - Pioneer Speakers & Subs

Review install in a Subaru
New Pioneer TS-WX77A Sub - ScoobyNet

Looks like a great sub that doesn't take up much boot space

[kaanage]

Whoa, that's seriously pricey!!

Why not make a normal sub/amp easily removable for when you really need the space? I'd be glad to show you my setup + let you listen to the result.

See Quick Removable Subwoofer

[flat6]

Yep it is a bit pricey, wonder if i could get away with chucking my own removable box + amp in, will have to suss it out, any bang for buck setups worth checking out?

[The_Hawk]

That's a pretty awesome idea for a removable sub!! Something I might just consider for my Golf since space is sort of at a premium in the Cabriolet

[flat6]

After doing a fair bit of research, its quite hard to get a decent looking setup for under $500 including amp, sub and enclosure, wiring kit

Can score these little subs for about $470 online, $599 if you go to autobarn

[kaanage]

Is the look a major criteria? Just interested to know what your major intent is.

[noone]

The head unit alone is a good upgrade for the Polo, I did that and the speakers came alive.

Still not the $3k system I had before, but pretty good.

If you want decent low bass, a 12" in a decent size sealed box is my pick. Lots of good cheap gear on eBay. I'd be amazed if this little one would sound nearly as good.

[flat6]

I take my above comment back, managed to pickup a 12" clarion sub in a sealed box + 570w clarion mono amp and wiring kit for $460, spent the better half of today hooking it up, its true that audio has no price limit but you only need to spend very little to get a decent setup.

Firewall was a pain in the ass, had to remove the left wheel and wheel well covers to run it down the side through the gromit near the door, but glad I avoid drilling.

All up very happy with the end result, I have already replaced the head unit with a Eonon D5101 which has a 60x4 amp, sounded great just needed bass, the stock speakers are excellent, so glad i didn't replace them as all this car needs is a sub

Was thinking of returning the 12" clarion for a 10" alpine and save the boot space, not really after the doof doof, just a more complete sound, what do you guys recon?

[kaanage]

Yep - a head unit that can redirect bass + a subwoofer and amp gives very decent sound in a 9N3

I reckon a 10" sealed sub is ample. I'm running a 10" no name sub with a very old 100W (30W+30W RMS bridged) Sony amp and it plays as loud as I can stand and as low as any track in my music collection.

How did you get the power cable down to the wheel well from the battery? I went via the left windscreen washer tube.

[noone]

Depends. A good ported 10" will get down just as low, but a sealed 10" generally does not get down to the low frequencies as well.
The driver needs to match the box in order to get the best results. Ive seen great results with a singe 6" in a box that was well designed.

10" for punch, 12" for good bass, 15" in a big box for true bass. Not practical but if you look at my build thread, there was a reason I had a long-back corolla.

[kaanage]

A Polo is pretty small so you get a lot of "room/corner loading" gain - I did run a 12" sub for a while with a big amp (see link in my initial post) and there was no discernable difference except for maximum volume (which I could only really test when out of the car as the 10" was more than loud enough when in the car)

[flat6]

Just tuned the crossover settings to about 80htz, sounds so much cleaner, but some songs still get a bit too much bass, might have to mess around a bit more.

Ran the cable through the wheel arch, there's a gap to the lower right of the battery where you can feed it through, goes through the upper wheel arch to which i cable tied it to a few clips then through the door grommet into the passenger kick panel.

Where'd you guys mount the amps?

[kaanage]

Does the Eonon allow for high pass filtering to the normal channels so they don't overlap with the sub? I found this to be an invaluable feature in my head unit (like bass redirection for home theatre amps).

My amp is attached to my sub so it removes as a unit.

[noone]

Just tuned the crossover settings to about 80htz, sounds so much cleaner, but some songs still get a bit too much bass, might have to mess around a bit more.

You may find moving the position and orientation flattens out the bass lumps. What head unit are you running?

[flat6]

This is the unit I got, Eonon D5101 | Car DVD | Specific Car DVD | Car DVD for Glof/POLO

Has about a million outputs on the back yet I only just found out the sub woofer output doesn't seem to work, has no signal when connected, So I currently have it hooked to the rear left and right outputs.

Had to buy some L adapters to get the rca's in as the unit wouldn't fit flush in the dash with RCA's, works ok now i guess, sound quality is actually quite good.

Can also control sub volume with this unit, switching loud mode on and off also makes a huge difference but can be quite overpowering in some songs, flat settings with + 1 sub works the best

Edit: just found out the subwoofer output is a digital coax out