9" Bass speaker or Bazooka Tube
 

I am wondering if anyone has tried to upgrade the stock sound system and didn't mess with the factory amplifiers. keeping the factory bose speakers and adding tweeters to the front or rear speakers. How about diconnecting the 9" sub woofer and using the 100 watt factory amp to power a bazooka bass tube. Those bass tubes are really amazing, especially the smaller ones and what they can do.

Sounds good. I wouldn't mind having some tweeters, but I'm scared to touch the wiring. I wish Bose would use better quality materials. Even the Bose home systems use paper type material for the drivers. Poly midranges and titanium tweeters would be sweet.

Bazooka tubes use their own built-in amplifiers so disconnecting the factory one and replacing it with a bazooka tube would be kind of a waste, since you couldn't use the factory amp anymore. If anything, I would look into replacing the Bose amp with a more powerful one, depending on how everything is hooked up. I find that bazooka tubes are good for smaller cars (we put one in my friends MR2, and it made a huge difference) but given the size of the TL, I think you'd probably be better off just increasing the bass tone of your music if you want more.

Re: 9" Bass speaker or Bazooka Tube
 

You can do all kinds of aftermarket additions to the Bose system - add amps, change out head unit, etc....., if you use the correct adapters. Check out www.peripheralelectronics.com . This car really does need front tweeters. If you do not use the correct adapters, you will have gain problems, noise problems, etc...

Bazooka tubes use their own built-in amplifiers so disconnecting the factory one and replacing it with a bazooka tube would be kind of a waste,

Although this is true... Bazooka has passive sub woofers as well. I have a 10" tube in My honda civic hooked up to a Punch amp. It sounds great!! I think the one 10" I have sounds more like two 10" woofers. I used to have a 6 1/2" bass tube before I purchased the 10" and the 6 1/2" sounded phenominal for one 6 1/2" woofer in the trunk of my civic, I guess I wnated a little more though.

re: Bazooka's
 

I have two 6 1/2" Bazooka tubes in my trunk that was just added to my system. One of the tubes has a built in amp, so it powers both. It sounds great, and adds some thump w/o making too much bass. I'll be taking that setup out of the CL and into the TL-S....

Just keep in mind, most Bose systems run 1 ohm, where as the standard car system will run 4 ohm. A simple speaker replacement will probably result in less output.

Re:Infinity Basslink
 

I have the Inifinity Basslink in my Maxima trunk. Self Powered 10" 200w Sub with built in Class D Amplifier. It plays clean, undistorted low-ends. IMO- Whoops Bazooka's a$s hands down :D

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