Can a Car Subwoofer be used for Home Theater?

Enjoying music while traveling in your car with a subwoofer, is great fun. You can even use a car subwoofer at home. Car subwoofers deliver powerful and deep bass that can be enjoyed at home.

I have been using my car subwoofer at home and O, Boy it is just awesome. In this article, our editors have explained steps to connect a car subwoofer with a home theater system.

Yes, car subwoofers are used for home theater by detaching power supply, remove the car subwoofer, carefully connect it with the home theater system. You will need amplifier, RCA cables, paper-clip, 12 Volts inverter for this.

Subwoofers are actually the loudspeakers. Car Subwoofers handle lower frequencies. Low frequencies are the most important that produce the full, rich, three-dimensional effect.

If you want a better sound quality at your home theater system you can attach a subwoofer meant for your car stereo system. It’s really an easy task and you require only a few things and proper management.

Can a Car Subwoofer be used for Home Theater?

Here I will discuss the procedure by which you can actually hook up a car subwoofer to your regular home theater sound system.

Disconnect the power apply of car subwoofer

First, you have to disconnect all the power because you are going to work on the wire harness. If you do not disconnect the power supply there is a chance of electric shock.

You have to eliminate wires but before elimination any wire you must have enough knowledge that which wire you are going to remove. Wire colors depend upon the model of your car power supply. There may be different color wires like blue, red, green, black, etc. You have to eliminate blue, orange, red and green.

There are some yellow wires with strippers. You have to strip the yellow wires at about 1inch. then twist the yellow wires with yellow cord. There are also the black wires, repeat the same procedure for the black wires.

Disconnect your subwoofer from your car stereo

Once you disconnect the power, you are free to touch wires. There are two types of wires coming from your car stereo to your subwoofer.

First, one is turn on lead and the second one is the actual signal cable that transmits the sound signals. You have to disconnect these two wires. Pick up them and follow the path where they going.

Most of the time, they run beneath the carpet and rim along with the doors of your car. Follow their path and disconnect them very carefully.

Tool required

12-volt power inverter
12 or 16 gauge speaker wire
RCA audio cable
Sounds system with amplifier
Stereo cable
paperclip

Attach a power inverter

Subwoofers usually have two types of connection power and signal. The first thing you require is a car inverter because like a cat battery, subwoofer requires an amplifier that runs on a 12-volt battery.