20 Most Recent Visonik 10" 500-Watt Single Bandpass Subwoofer Enclosure Car Speaker Questions & Answers

Hello dylanholick,

Visonik is somewhat low-end car audio and band pass enclosures in general usually produce rather muddy and boomy bass. It will probably sound "bad", but not hot, and not cool.

If you aim is a good self-contained system with amp, sub and enclosure all in one, why not consider an Infinity Basslink, MTX Thunderlink, or perhaps a Bazooka. They're all available at www.crutchfield.com for little more than you'll pay for the Visonik and any of them will definitely sound better.

Hope this helps.

If you haven't already, check the fuse(s) on the amp itself. If this isn't the issue, it's possible there's a problem inside the amp. From that point, you can attempt to open the amp up and look for (obviously) blown components or you can choose to hand it off to a repair facility.

Here is a link to visonik to download manuals.
http://old.visonik.de/en/downloads.php

If you let me know your model number of the sub, vehicle make and model, and brand and model of headunit or CD player you have then i can provide wiring color codes, recommended wire routing locations, etc...

This usually involves removing the plastic bezel around the stereo. Sometimes these plastic bezels hold some buttons for air conditioning and heat, as well as the hazard lights button. These plastic bezels usually are just snapped in with metal clips on the back of them. You can pry them outward and with a good yank they will pop out. Once you have the plastic bezel around the radio removed, there will be 2-4 screws on the sides, or top and bottom. Once you remove those, the whole radio will pull right out of the dash. Then you have to un-clip the wire harness from the car, and unplug the antenna cable. If you plan on putting a different stereo in the car, KEEP the mounting bracket around the stereo, as well as the "wiring harness" that was used to plug into the vehicle harness. That will save you about $50 in parts to put a new stereo in.

To be absolutely sure of which terminal is positive and which is negative, we will use a 1.5 v battery to have the speaker react as though it is playing music.

* special note * do not use any more than 1.5 v as it may damage the speaker coil

As we know, batteries are marked positive, negative, or both ... we will use this to our advantage when hooking up the battery to our speaker.

To start the process, temporarily attach a short piece of wire to each terminal of the speaker (be sure to either use wire that is marked, or wire of differing colours to help determine which terminal is which). In our example, we used standard speaker wire which is "polarized" (one wire is made of copper and the other is made from tin .. interestingly, this serves no electrical purpose)

Once you have connected the wire to your speaker, proceed to briefly touch the free ends of the wire to the battery terminals (as shown below). In some cases, extended contact with the battery has caused cancer of the voice coil (ie. blown speaker)

If the speaker moves OUT when the battery is first connected, the battery is connected in proper alignment. Be sure to take note of which wire is connected to the positive terminal of the battery as this is your speaker's positive terminal.

Hello sir hi, the black wire is standard color for ground. if you are wiring a speaker, the wire is really not that sensitive, interchanging the wire only makes the sound drop to about 2%, barely not noticeable.

Hello lilgeiger111,

If you have checked all of the wiring and fuses and the amp does not power up, it's blown.

Hope this helps.