Hookup Car Subwoofer to Home Sound System
For those who likes make some extra works at home, this time you will have a new experience about how to hookup a car subwoofer to a home sound system, and i believe the result of this work can be a wonderful sounding system which has great output, low-end bass. However, this will need a litle attention before we start, all that you will need are Car subwoofer, speaker wire, Speaker box (make sure the speaker box is suitable for the car subwoofer specification), Wire strippers, RCA connection and cables.
First Step :
Figure out the Ohm output of the unit, be it a cable box, receiver, DVD player or another device. All 8 Ohm units should be mated to 8 Ohm speakers, 4 Ohm to 4 Ohm, and so on and so forth. Your sound will be cleaner and the speaker much less likely to blow if this is done.
Second Step :
Figure out the wattage of the unit, or how many watts it sends out to the speakers, both peak power and RMS, which is 70 per cent of its peak power. Sending 200 watts into a speaker designed to handle only one hundred, will greatly shorten the life of the speaker. Match these units as closely as possible.
Third Step :
Place the speaker in a box that will enhance its performance, if it is not already boxed. If both wattage and Ohms match up, you can replace an existing house speaker of the same dimensions with a car audio speaker, as well. If using your own box, install a crossover that will only send the low signals to the woofer, providing a crisp, clean sound.
Fourth Step :
Connect the speaker to the main unit via the speaker wire. If the unit uses RCA connections, it may be necessary to modify the hookups at the speaker or box. If implementing the traditional red and black clamp-down style connections, simply bare the speaker wire and hook negative to black and positive to red. Positive is normally the wire with a stripe on it.
To test the performance of the sound system, you can try playing an audiophile CD, you will see the different between home sound system and the hookup car subwoofer installed on it.
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