BLAUPUNKTGTHS81 8" Amplified Subwoofer 320-Watts

I installed this subwoofer in my Scion iQ because there is a lack of any real usable room or mounting space for a sub. After looking at other compact subs I found this one to have the correct dimensions to fit under my seat (3 1/8” tall) and the price was right, but was a little leery about such an inexpensive self-amplified sub.Turns out, this thing is awesome! My other car has a 10” Polk with its own amp, so I’m used to big, usable, and sometimes powerful bass. I’ve installed and enjoyed many sound systems, so I’ve developed an ear for good sound. The Blaupunkt fills my car with lots of bass, and sounds great after fiddling with tuning it. There is some distortion close to the upper limit, but the rest of the sound system is too loud for you to even be in that range in daily use. The sound is full and not cheap or tinny, and puts a smile on my face. From standing 10 feet away from the car I can hear the sub noticeably but not loudly, and this is with the radio at about medium volume. This is a good option for cars with smaller interior volume I guess, but maybe a pair of these would work for a larger vehicle.Overall, I’m very impressed with this little box and am happy everything turned out so well. I definitely recommend.

I was a little sus due to the single blurry photo but I decided to pick it up due to the good price and that it's a compact, ported sub.Haven't installed in car yet but I've been running it off a 12V 5A power supply and comparing it to my home theater subs.It definitely exceeded my expectations for it's size! And the build quality is great. It's solid and all-metal. (Good thing too cause my Amazon driver literally threw it on the porch with no protection in the HEAVY RAIN, took a blurry photo, and ran. But it's fully intact.)I'm not some A-hole bass head and was looking for something that can do balanced bass as well as hit those low notes <35Hz that even some 12-inch subs can't hit. (Size ain't everything folks.)It definitely delivered, goes down to about 30 before dropping off, outperforming my 10 inch sub in all but volume, and feels like a wider soundstage. I do have one sub that outperforms it but that makes sense given it's part of a very expensive Atmos system that uses mics to do active room-correction.The fact that it crushes all my other subs in soundstage, even the bigger ones, is still impressive.Sure, at only 100 watts RMS it doesn't get SUPER LOUD compared to some beefy subs, but it's loud enough that 50% can SHAKE YOYR HOUSE BABY. And I value my eardrums, so that's good enough for me.

Nice and compact,easy to hook up , and sounds good

My Mecedes E350 (rear deck) subwoofer started souding scratchy and eventually went bad. The little dedicated Harmon amp was fine but the speaker was done for. Sadly, replacing that speaker requires more disassembly of the car's interior than I was able to do. Besides, for all that work I would've just ended up with a mediocre subwoofer. I unplugged the old subwoofer, placed this Blaupunkt in trunk and wired it into the cars existing wiring... what a huge difference! More power, more clarity, more punch. I'm not into loud anymore, but this Blaupunkt is able to go much louder than factory subwoofer and it sounds so much better.

Impressive sound quality for such a small package and small price. I put 2 of them under each front seat in my 2022 Silverado. The box is made of metal not plastic. I only wanted a full sound not extreme low bass. It has decent low bass for such a small setup. Install was straight forward. I used 8 gauge wire. Took me about 3 hrs total to wire up both of them.

Stopped working after one song. Was not even turned up half way. Now it will not even power up. I changed the fuse but the original was still intact. It didn't even seem to trip anything, it just powered down and will not power back up again. Of course it was a few days past the return window when I finally got it installed. Didn't sound bad for the 3 minutes it worked though.

When I was younger it was all about crazy bass. As I get older I enjoy good overall sound. I replaced all of the speakers in my Jeep JL with Kickers, then added this powered sub to add some bass. It won’t draw any attention by rattling your trunk, but does an excellent job adding those nice bass tones. It was pretty easy to install. The hardest part was mounting it on my wheel well.

Its a decent system makes it easy since everything is together, was not enough bass for my like, I ended going with a JL 8" microsub, this Blaupunkt felt more like a mid speaker with some bass.