I do not. They're spliced from the bose amp.

Should I start facepalming?

 

You need to do basic trouble shooting and find out the issue. I would get a 9 volt battery and just touch the positive and negative of the battery to the positive and negative on the subwoofer and you might need to use speaker wire to make the connection to the 9volt. You need to test each coil and it will make a pop sound and move the speaker full excursion. You need to yank out the sub and test each coil.

Once you have verified both coils are good and then make sure it is wired in this diagram for 2 ohm mono load.



Then install subwoofer and use the 9v battery to speaker pop the zen enclosure and make sure it is all connected. Then you need to make sure that you are using a Line out converter that is working properly and connected to speaker to splice RCA and has power to it.

I have couple other tricks for troubleshooting but right now I want you to check the Line out converter and each coil on the subwoofer individually and ensure there is no short.

Edit: where is the LOC being tapped in...are you using the signal from the headunit or the signal after it has been amplified and toward the speaker end.

EDIT EDIT: HOLY JEEBUS...where are you tapping in for your connection. You have a kenwood head unit and you should just run a RCA direct from head unit to sub amp. WHY THE FUC*** are you using a shitt**y LOC signal to the BOSE amp when you have a aftermarket head unit with clean 2v-4v pre outs.

 

Yeah, the bose amp does some heavy EQ'ing to compensate for it's utter lack of power, dropping more of the bass the higher the volume goes. Aftermarket units have substantially more power than the bose unit ever did, so they'll cause that "feature" to be more apparent sooner.

If your headunit has a dedicated subwoofer output, run RCAs straight from the headunit to the subwoofer amp. If it doesn't, just splice into the signal *BEFORE* the bose amp, and run that into the sub's amp.

 

._. I'm sorry. Thank you all. I will test this soon.

 

You're first mistake was putting a spl oriented(yet good sounding) sub in a small sealed box.

2nd was using that loc, lol.

 

Live 'n' learn, I suppose. Reason I avoided professional installation is to learn anyway.

What's "spl oriented"? And what boxes are recommended?

 

Direct lines from headunit to amplifier. Nothing changed.

 

Remove the headunit from the equation then, get a 3.5mm to RCA Y-cable and plug it from your Walkman (or one of those newfangled iPods) directly to the amp.

 

Well, before I go out and buy anything, can you teach me a little about how you said splicing into the signal BEFORE the bose amp? For that, I just splice rca wires (cut them?) into it, right? I will do a search after this post; thought it'd be more efficient to have this out first in case my search fails. Reason I want to try this first is because the rca's I used to connect amp directly to HU is a very ghetto mockup extension I had to make out of spare wires, so I'm wanting to try other alternative "free" methods before buying anything. Yes, I'm that frugal.

Please and thank you.

 

dont they make harnesses/adapters for g35s with bose system?

 

Yes, but even with it (PAC ROEM-NIS2) there's no guarantee at it working as with the stock headunit, frankly because bose sucks. There's no consistency as to what works and what doesn't with any of their components. The PAC ROEM-NIS2 is the most consistent at getting it to sound as "good" as stock though, but the bose amp still covers for its weakness by reducing bass output as volume goes up, regardless of what headunit is connected to it. It's just less noticeable with the factory headunit.

 

Allllllllllllright, went and retried everything and I am happy now. You guys were right; I just messed up the wires a few days ago but it's all good now.

Thanks all.

 

U could atleast say wat u did wrong n wat was corrected

 

It was exactly what y'all said. I just ran rca's from amp to headunit. I did the same thing the other day, but that failed because the wires were ****ed up. That's all, really. Got different wires and voila.