{"id":2763,"date":"2012-06-11T20:42:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T20:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2012-06-11T20:43:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T20:43:58","slug":"subaru-impreza-wagon-bass-enclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/subaru-impreza-wagon-bass-enclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Subaru Impreza Wagon Bass Enclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow it has been a long time since I’ve blogged! An email out of the blue has reminded me that I’ve done a bunch of work on the Impreza<\/a> since I got it, and what better place to start than to cover the audio situation. I’m not looking for any car show worthy mega-bass, but I am of the opinion that the standard audio system leaves a lot to be desired at the lower end of the audio spectrum. Without fail I’ve been able to do a reasonable job of improving matters by adding a bass enclosure and reducing the low frequency burden on the standard speakers, so I chose to pursue that avenue again.<\/p>\n

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I started one sunny day in late March. Having owned BMWs for a decade my first hurdle was rather novel; the battery was in the engine bay! BMW tend to pop the battery in the boot for weight distribution purposes, so I haven’t needed to breach a bulkhead for a very long time. After much rummaging around in the passenger footwell having removed the fan assembly I found a boot to feed the power cable through and sealed that all up nicely.<\/p>\n

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Next I ran that power cable and the ‘stereo is on’ signal from the head unit to the boot.<\/p>\n

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Eventually I ended up in a position to test I could power and switch an amplifier in the boot.<\/p>\n

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That took a day – a considerable amount of faff breaching the bulkhead took the majority of this time. For my next trick I measured up, ordered a 12″ driver, and cut a sheet of 12mm thick MDF to size.<\/p>\n

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Looks pretty awful until it’s painted.<\/p>\n

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After some research I managed to find a 12″ driver with a relatively low mounting depth in Halfords of all places.<\/p>\n

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Guess what? It fitted a treat – “Slick” indeed! So\u00a0I mounted it and the amplifier to the board.<\/p>\n

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The final product looks nice and smart, and of course is totally hidden when the upper boot floor is in place.<\/p>\n

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At first I wasn’t so excited by the result until I realised I’d got the polarity wrong. Once I’d corrected the phase it was obvious we were in business! A great, rounded sound, and no compromise at all on boot space and functionality. Result! :)<\/p>\n

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Wow it has been a long time since I’ve blogged! An email out of the blue has reminded me that I’ve done a bunch of work on the Impreza since I got it, and what better place to start than to cover the audio situation. I’m not looking for any car show worthy mega-bass, but […]  Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}