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can I add a subwoofer to my stock bose system?

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Old Sep 3, 2006 | 12:48 PM
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can I add a subwoofer to my stock bose system?

As the questions states, I have the bose headunit & CD player with everything in perfect condition...Is there a way to add another subwoofer w/amp to this system?

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Old Sep 3, 2006 | 01:19 PM
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The only feasible way would be to get an aftermarket head unit with the Scosche line-in adapter for the Bose crap and hook up an amp to the headunit. I had to do the Scoshce garbage for my Miata with Bose and that was a huge pain. I'm not 100% certain you could hook up an amp to it as well because I haven't tried it, but I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work.
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Old Sep 3, 2006 | 01:23 PM
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The easiest way would be to add an inline signal wire (I'm pretty sure this is not the right term for it). The wire hooks to your existing speaker wire, has a converter box and, the other side of the box has rca wires. As stated before, hook to speaker wires. Then hook an rca cable to the box and your amp. Hook up your power, ground and remote wire and you're good to go.
I may have made this sound somewhat confusing but it's very simple.
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Old Sep 5, 2006 | 02:29 PM
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you can try a line output converter basically what it will do is tap into your speaker wires and it will go through a converter which will give you rca's most amps come with this built in, but you may run into a problem with how loud the sub gets say you turn your deck up your sub may not gain loudness the same or may not get a strong enough signal. this will work but hi level in does not sound as good as going low level in which means getting a deck with a sub out will sound much better.
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 01:15 PM
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Yeah, they got the right idea. Some amps have speaker level inputs. In that case, you just splice into the existing wires going to the speakers and run them to your amp. If your amp doesn't have speaker level inputs, you need a converter, which like they said changes the speaker level inputs to RCA outputs, then run them to the amp. Then you'll also need a turn on lead to turn the amp on. Any source of keyed power would work.
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 05:04 PM
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