Feedback on Alpine SWD-1600

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MegatronUK

Feedback on Alpine SWD-1600

Post by MegatronUK »

I know a couple of people were interested in this powered under-seat sub, and I've just finished fitting mine in the mk1.5.

The unit itself is a very solid piece of kit, all cast alluminium body (not plastic as it appears in the images on the web) with a flippin' heavy speaker inside! The wiring is via a fly lead with twin phono's, earth, remote and 12v multi plug that attaches somewhere within the inner confines of the sub that you cant get to - so if you damage the fly lead or have to cut it; be warned! It also comes with speaker to phono leads if your head unit doesn't have line out or subwoofer out phono connections.

It's pretty loud, surprisingly so for its size, has adjustable gain and high pass filters and is selectable between normal and reverse phase. Not a bad sounding bit of kit - easily worth the £95 from caraudiosecurity.com - and definitely fills out the bottom end of the sound in the mk1 where we are limited to 4" speakers.

It *just* fits under the standard mk1 seats mind you... so if you've got lower ones you're stuffed... and you may not get the seat all the way back either (it needs a bit of effort to get past the sub as it just catches underneath) - my passenger side seat is now 1-1.5" from the back, as it won't go any further.

Johns verdict? Two thumbs up! :D
SwissHeavy
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Re: Feedback on Alpine SWD-1600

Post by SwissHeavy »

Cheers for that fella, so would it fit under a Mk2 seat I wonder....

Further more, is it worth spending £130 for a sub box and sub for behind the seat instead for much more sound... Dilemna!
jasper
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Re: Feedback on Alpine SWD-1600

Post by jasper »

SwissHeavy wrote:
Further more, is it worth spending £130 for a sub box and sub for behind the seat instead for much more sound... Dilemna!


But then you'd have no where to put the T-bar glass.
jasper
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Re: Feedback on Alpine SWD-1600

Post by jasper »

MegatronUK wrote:Not a bad sounding bit of kit and definitely fills out the bottom end of the sound in the mk1 where we are limited to 4" speakers.

Johns verdict? Two thumbs up! :D


I was equally impressed John, nice bass from such a small sub, very discrete too.
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Re: Feedback on Alpine SWD-1600

Post by un1eash »

I'm in 2 minds here, i dont know wether or not to get another swd-1600 or try buiding 2 8 inch sub boxes, one for each seat. what do u think?
MegatronUK

Re: Feedback on Alpine SWD-1600

Post by MegatronUK »

Well mine's a T-bar so no contest for me!

Personally, for an all-in one combined amp and sub, you can't really go wrong for £95 for a decent brand bit of kit like this.
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