PIONEERTS-WX70DA Space Saving Class-D Active Subwoofer with Bass control (200W)

The 'Premium' sound system in my 10th-gen Honda Civic is nice, but there's almost no bass once you get going - it's there but it gets drowned out by road noise. I wanted to hear the bass in my music, but not deafen myself, rattle the number plate or win any SPL competitions. After much searching, I settled on the TS-WX70DA powered sub from Pioneer. Reasons for choosing this over all the others:* Very slim - only 97mm (3 7/8 ") thick.* Only 850mm wide - fits perfectly between the rear wheel arches in a Civic* Wanted to keep the spare tyre space free - I might yet buy the space-saver spare tyre kit (UK spec Civics only come with the tyre inflation gunk/compressor combo).* Class D amp - only needs a 10A (~140W) power connection to get 100W RMS. I can take 180W from the rear cigarette lighter socket. In contrast, the Pioneer TS-WX610A spare tyre sub needs a 'proper' dedicated power supply running from the battery.* All black - doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.* 2 x 6.5" drivers and a folded horn reflex enclosure - gives out some decent accentuating bass, and it's LOW. You can hear right down to the bottom bass notes on most Drum & Bass / Dance music.There are two 'modes' on the sub's remote - 'Deep' and 'Dynamic'. IMO the 'Dynamic' mode sounds rubbish. If you look at the published frequency response curve, they've put this enormous camel's hump around 70Hz, which happens to be where Honda decided to do the same thing in the factory sound system's built-in DSP. Consequence: Hooty, muffly, wuffly bass with no bottom end. I only use the 'Deep' setting and it sounds great.Have a look at the attached jpeg for install ideas.The sub takes line-level or speaker-level inputs via the same RCA/phono sockets. Even with the 'gain' control on the remote turned as low as it can go (without actually being muted) there was still too much bass. I had to put a 2K2 potentiometer as a potential divider in the input signal wiring to the sub, and I've got it set to about 20% from the bottom.I posted some pics of my install on the Civicx forum but Amazon won't let me link to it. Go search on that site if you're interested.

This sub works well with my cars factory fitted sound system. It's not going to give earth shattering bass but it's just right. My car's a Mercedes Coupe and came with a 6.5" frontbass sub which in all honesty just didn't cut it. There are 2 modes of operation on the Pioneer sub- deep and dynamic. Dynamic works well for punchy music like house, Hiphop and pop. Deep works well with music that goes down quite low such as the Migos. There's a variable crossover that works well for my system at about 90hz. There is a phase switch that's very useful in my case because of the interaction with existing sub when using the different modes. Deep works with phase inverted, dynamic works with phase in the normal position. The thing I like about this sub is its efficiency, it can run on 10 amps with means can can pretty much use the cigarette lighter feed for power. I used the high output from my front left speaker to feed the amp and this seems to work just fine. Once installed the sub takes up very little room and the boot is still use able. I would highly recommend this sub and suggest you give yourself reasonable time to install it especially if your car is very modern. You will need the control nearby because both modes don't work for all types of music in my opinion. I generally leave it in dynamic for my house mix tapes and deep for modern Hiphop.

Bloody brilliant - if you ignore the nay sayers who compare/expect this subwoofer to blow your windows out like a custom multi 18" Woofer - Boot filling - monster subwoofer system. This is more BOSE / SONOS in its approach - Small, Flexible and Extremely Powerful for its size..This is easy to install, takes up very little space in your boot, and packs a great punch. It totally transformed the car stereo with tight, punchy low-end frequencies (Not earth shattering - just really great bass at typical-to-loud volumes (ie: every day driving is now sonically fantastic as the full range of frequencies can be heard and in some cases felt!)Do not buy this if you are chasing ear shattering BASS - you need to spend a LOT more and sacrifice your boot space too... however if you are past your teenage years, and are looking to add some BASS to your current car system.. this is a really good, practical and effective solution... again think of this as a BOSE / SONOS / HEOS / APPLEPOD / ALEXA ECHO SUB - a powerful, effective and highly tuned/designed solution that sounds fantastic.

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Installed this in the boot of my Mini R56 JCW. Fitting wise, as you can see from my pictures, it looks like it was 'made to measure' for the Mini. Fits absolutely perfectly!Sound wise, it's incredible. Exceptional bass for the size of the unit, brings a much needed realism to a wide variety of musical tastes. Playing Leftfield, Daft Punk, Eminem etc, the music comes 'alive' with this sub.The wired remote control is a bonus and makes fine tuning adjustments, from the drivers seat, a 'breeze'.100% recommended, I'm thrilled with it!

This was a bad buy for a range rover, made very little difference to the existing sound. Not worth the fitting or the outlay.This is perhaps suited to very small cars