Thanks @motolatte, I just checked and my sub's gain was maxed out. Turned it down to 30-40 % and now I can fine tune with the knob. The premium sound is still not great but it will do for now.
Agreed. I was spoiled by my Burmester soundsystem in my MB.
From what I have been told the remote knob is not supposed to be installed or included; early ones that included it were a mistake
Which seems kinda dumb to me - unless the head unit now has those same controls. Which I do not believe is the case since there a physical knobs on the sub itself.
I bought a knob from JBL and it doesn't control anything. Not sure if the functionality is lost when they use the wiring harness.
So the external (remote) knob that isn't included is an attenuation interface from the "normal" level; with a sub this small, turning it down independently isn't a big concern (this can be accomplished by decreasing the bass on the head unit's EQ). The door speakers aren't putting out any massive bass either, so a systemic EQ change makes more of a difference. If you had a strong ported 10" (or a pair of 12"s), then I could absolutely see the desire to have a bass knob (so you can easily adjust between "normal listening" and the 2006 lyrical genius phrase of "you can see me before you hear me, I got King Kong in my trunk").
nope, had to tune my "ghetto blaster 2000" stereo after picking up; and upon removal of sub to adjust, no remote plugged in and no sign of it in vehicle.
Hey does anyone have any info on how to remove the JBL sub on the “premium upgrade”? It’s mounted on a rack at 45 degrees - top bolt easy enough to get to on the rack, bottom 2 on the floor impossible to reach. Unscrew the sub from the rack from the back? And of course they used adhesive foam between the sub and the rack - just to make it harder.
super easy, pull out floor section and hit the two 10mm nuts on the posts, that will take out the bottom portion. make sure if you unplug the sub, that when you reconnect you hit the little push buttons on the side edge to turn it back on, took me a bit to figure that out when screwing with it not wearing my glasses.
That might have been nice to have, LOL, but me, the "blind squirrel", got the thing dialed in to what I would call Premium for the way that truck is set up. I'd say on par with the LC200 I own and my wife's D120. was absolute abomination of stereo when I drove it home from dealer.
I guess it’s all relative, right? I’m fine with it - it’s winning no awards but so much better than when I picked it up from the dealer.
I mounted a different amplifier on the L bracket. It had to come off.
