I have a 2005 Boxster S with the
BOSE stereo
and was thinking of removing the big heavy subwoofer that sits right behind the seats on top of the engine. I would still want the ability to listen to the stereo, so I was wondering if disconnecting it would stop it all from working?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I figured someone has done this before.
Why not unplug it and test it first? I think what you will find is you will lose all your bass or a lot of it. My guess will be the rest of the stereo will still play.
I’d like to remover the CD “changer” from the frunk. Shouldn’t be too difficult - anyone done it? Clues?
I recently upgraded my whole audio system in my '05 with Bose.
Backstory: I replaced the front 4" door speakers and the gawd-awful floppy-paper 6" woofers in the door with real 8" woofers. There was a post here that I used to guide me about a year ago, in July.
The new speakers in the door sounded so good, and I was so tired of the Bose amp being flaky that I replaced the amp with a 4-channel amp and a separate sub amp.
On to the rear speaker setup.
Yes, I modified that.
Yes, you can remove it and have the system still work. It's fairly easy. You'll figure it out. Of course, you'll need to put the top in service mode. There is a large multi-pin connector on the passenger side, just underneath that end.
It's fairly heavy, so be careful getting it out from the back.
On to what I did.
There are 2- 2.5" full-range speakers at each end, behind the seats at each corner. You can see them looking at each corner. They are powered by the Bose amp in the frunk.
There are 2- 5" speakers in the enclosure, pointing down. There is a baffle to move the sound out through the 2 oval-type chutes you see in the middle of the car between the seats. There is a high-level signal coming from the Bose amp to this module in the back.
There is a small, roughly 3x3x1" power amp inside the enclosure that feeds these speakers. They have large magnets and look like woofers. I suspect that amp is set up to only pass sub-frequencies to these speakers. I was never really impressed by the sound from this unit anyway.
I removed all speakers and the amp. I put in new 2,5" full-range speakers and new 5" full-range speakers from Parts Express. I wired them in parallel, and they present 2.5 ohms to the amp. The amp I had purchased will drive down to 2 ohms.
The combination of new 4" speakers in the doors with tweeters, the real 8" woofers in the doors, and now, better sound from the rear speakers, makes the overall sound very good. The bass is solid, and the new speakers give a much improved overall sound to the cabin, and I can really hear the rears now.
You sort of dropped this into a thread on another topic.. but.. yes, it's been done.
Since you probably have a
Bose system
that means the CD changer and the
Bose amp
are receiving their signals via a MOST fiber-loop network. The fiber sends light in only one direction in the loop (transmitter to receiver in each component) and removing one component breaks the loop making the other components not-functional. IE - unplug the CD changer and your audio is going away, then you'll be back here asking why.
You need to bridge the fiber that goes to the CD changer when you remove it - this is done with a special connector with a very short length of fiber designed to connect to the input/output connections on the CD changer connection. These are available if you do a bit of Googling.. cheapish. Not Porsche specific (Porsche, Mercedes and a few other brands used the MOST loop auto network). so you don't have to pay the Porsche tax for it.
The MOST fiber is the two orange cables going into the device connector.. if you power up the system with it disconnected and shine a flashlight at the ends of the fiber, one of them will glow red since you've activated the transmitter in the headunit or
Bose amp
(I don't know the order they're connected..)
