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New gear from the big wide world of car culture… FRESH KIT

FRESH KIT

KICKER HIDEAWAY HS10 COMPACT WOOFER, £400

The bods at US audio giants are so very proud of proper RMS grunt. Enough for your boys to line-out converter. In other words, it’s everything
of this new product, they asked us to park our be banging together like some sort of hairy your backside deserves. And your ears, too, for
ample arses on it, quite literally. In fact, we had Newton’s cradle. Talk about ‘feel’ the bass, eh? that matter.
to sit on this one for a few weeks in the That’s not all. There’s also a whole load of tech www.kickeruk.com

proverbial sense too, because this high-end, designed specifically for the coming decade.
hideaway woofer was kept a strict secret until It’s fully compatible with stop/start vehicles. FEATURES
it was launched at the enormous CES Show So, where most amps will shut down when the ■ 10-inch woofer
in Las Vegas, the consumer electronics voltage drops from the starter, this one will carry ■ 180-watts (RMS)
equivalent of SEMA. on like some sort of demented Duracell bunny, ■ 35x25x8cm body

As you’d expect, like every other Kicker meaning there’s no annoying ‘pops’ when it fires
offering, it went down a storm. We’re happy to back up. The HS10 will also take any input signal ■ 0.25-40 volt high-level input

say the embargo is up, and the first shipment from 0.25 all the way up to 40 volts. So it can ■ Compatible with start/stop vehicles

is set to hit the UK at the end of this month. be fitted to any car without the need for a ■ Remote bass control included
But what makes this super-compact, under-
seat box of serious boom so bloody special?
Well, it’s basically a 2020 update of one of the
most popular audio products of the last decade.
This may be practically the same size (or just
2mm taller, if we’re being picky) as the world-
beating HS8 woofer launched way back in 2011,
but it’s packing a driver that’s a full two inches
larger. And, along with a monster 180-watt
amplifier, it’s all crammed into a chassis that’s

not much bigger than this page, and should slide
under just about any seat.
Hold on to your love spuds too, because this
is Kicker we’re talking about. So that’s 180-watts

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