i've got an active wharfedale sub but the amp is no longer working, can the 'speaker' part be detached...

Question

from the built in amp and connected in anyway to a normal hifi amp as a seperate speaker itself... or reboxed maybe and connected to a car stereo set up via an amp?? wharfedale are charging 100 just to look at it and the sub cost 200 (5yrs ago) i think and it'd be a waste to chuck it out but too much to repair, any ideas??

cheers

Answer 1

Sure, you can contact Wharfedale to get a replacement, or you
can just go to Parts Express or another parts supply store and
find a good replacment subwoofer amp -and voila!
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Answer 2

You could go in either direction. You could connect in your house or your car. Subs in a car sound great, even if you are not looking to be the car that people can feel from a couple blocks away. I had a similar situation and all I did was connect my sub to my car stereo by taking the signal wires that were going to my rear speakers and splitting them. I didn't use an amp or anything and they sounded good. The sub was in a box in the trunk and it worked fine. Then, you fade your car stereo to the rear a bit to make up for the speaker wire being split to run the sub too. You could also use a car amp and really get some good sound from the sub. This set-up is a lot trickier though, as you need a power cord that you run from the battery and a signal wire that you get from the stereo.

Or....You could get another amp for your sub in your home. I've seen this done with an old stereo amp. You can just set a regular stereo amp behind the sub box and use a crossover to tune the signal wire so you are not sending higher frequencies to the sub.

Either one would work, it's just a matter of where you want to be bumpin'.

Answer 3

Parts Express (partsexpress.com) sells replacement subwoofer amps.They call them subwoofer plate amps. They mount on the back of the box where your old one was. All work with drivers in the 4 to 8 ohm range. If the woofer driver is higher than 8 ohms, don't worry. If lower, better talk to their technical staff about that. But your driver is more than likely in the 4 to 8 ohm range.
A word of warning: Be prepared to do some "custom" woodworking, because the replacement may not be the same size as the original.
Also, if you know the old amp's power rating , you can safely pick the one that is closest. There is also the chance that the replacement may be slightly better than the original. I hope that this is helpful.

Answer 4

as above