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Almost. Power all run and amp to hookup. Dropping in the sub shouldn’t take long. I lost this last weekend to getting front springs installed. Going to try and put in some good time by this weekend.
 

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I have the sub upgrade in place and running. It hasn’t taken me long to realize the factory B&O enclosure is very limiting. I’m seeing there just isn’t a lot of latitude in tuning everything. You can over power that enclosure pretty fast and finding a sweet spot is very fine. So it’s limiting. I know an 8” sub will never have the depth of a 10 or 12”. But getting to the point of getting some punch or getting into trouble has been a little tough.

It should make for an upgrade over factory, but I will probably install a 10” sub down the road.
 

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Sounds great, i have the same setup plus some upgraded speakers waiting, plus the kenwood amp, do u think ill need that lc audiocontrol too ?
 

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I have the sub upgrade in place and running. It hasn’t taken me long to realize the factory B&O enclosure is very limiting. I’m seeing there just isn’t a lot of latitude in tuning everything. You can over power that enclosure pretty fast and finding a sweet spot is very fine. So it’s limiting. I know an 8” sub will never have the depth of a 10 or 12”. But getting to the point of getting some punch or getting into trouble has been a little tough.

It should make for an upgrade over factory, but I will probably install a 10” sub down the road.
depth of sound has nothing to do with sub size, just output. the reason you dont have depth is because the sub you are using isnt designed for sq. as well as the oem plastic box is not strong enough to handle the air pressure of a good sub. the oem box will flex and that causes dead spots in your sub signal reproduction.
 

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Yes basically I know it’s a POS. Never expected much, just a little for now. I would expect the plastic enclosure to flex, swell and bulge to the music. Thought it could do a little more, but there are many flat spots in its response. It’s almost single dimensional if that’s a way to describe it. I normally utilize MDF enclosures and last had a great fiberglass box. Performed better than it had any right to with a single 10.

I will try and wrap this with some sound deadening to improve it maybe. Should 10 sqft of 80 Mil suffice? I known, once again the improvement will be small.


depth of sound has nothing to do with sub size, just output. the reason you dont have depth is because the sub you are using isnt designed for sq. as well as the oem plastic box is not strong enough to handle the air pressure of a good sub. the oem box will flex and that causes dead spots in your sub signal reproduction.
 

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audio control makes an amp with lc2 controls built into 1 box to eliminate bass rolloff
 

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I removed my sub ,waiting to wrap ,and I ordered the kicker woofer, what wires from the b and o amp do I remove and run to the amp ? second question and clips reused or is everything spliced and tapped into , and last do the kicker woofer fit in the enclosure with no mods?
 
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