How many of you love car audio?
I like to get speakers as big and loud as I possibly can myself.
Then ride around with the back seat down (so it's louder) and the windows open.
It's quiet awesome.
I was wondering...people with the same passion as you haven't heard about headphones? You can turn them as loud as you want, sometimes louder than the speakers. If you let them (the speakers) running with the engine off you'll be out of battery in a few hours.
And something else: what is so awesome if you open the windows?
I love car audio! If you like to drive and you have a car that you enjoy being in it really makes all the difference. Personally I like to drive around late at night on backroads and through the woods while rocking out to some good tunes. That's the reason why I like it I guess, as far as technically though, car audio is awesome and I prefer to have some serious power behind my woofers and tweeters.
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| Psycho_X52 wrote: |
I was wondering...people with the same passion as you haven't heard about headphones? You can turn them as loud as you want, sometimes louder than the speakers. If you let them (the speakers) running with the engine off you'll be out of battery in a few hours.
And something else: what is so awesome if you open the windows? |
As cornga56 said
| cornga56 wrote: |
| I prefer to have some serious power behind my woofers and tweeters. |
Many enjoy the feeling of loud speakers. I have two 10 inch speakers and a 480W amplifier. When you crank it up you can really feel each stroke of the speakers in your body... something you cant with small headphones.
About that battery statement- Sure, that´s true, with the stereo cranked up the battery is drained really fast. But personally I dont have a problem with it, since I only listen to music on my way to and from work. If I want to listen to music I just go to my room and use my more serious stereo system 
I like to have many speakers in my car too! louder as possible! Everytime I got some many I spend it car aduio!
Working in the sound industry, you really start to appreciate good sound quality, and generally can tell if someone knows what they are doing as far as car audio goes just by hearing their car. One thing that makes me laugh is when people install big subs in their car, but dont put them in properly tuned speaker boxes, because the size of the box, the shape and the wood its made of makes a big difference in sound quality. It also pays to consider other parts of your car, and weather or not they are able to move around/rattle. Generally people in the know will spray silicon spray around boot lids etc. then never open them again. This helps eliminate the annoying rattling noises most cars get with a lot of bass/vibration. Another thing is, unless your using excellent full range speakers, you need more than just a sub and a tweeter, otherwise your missing out on a lot of mid-range sounds.
Another important aspect is making sure your amps and speakers are matched properly - there is nothing worse than when your speakers fart - it sounds awful and is really bad for them.
I dont really see the point in putting big sound systems in cars anyway. Cars are for driving, houses are for putting big sound systems in. As long as you can hear it clearly and its loud enough, there is no point in spending big bucks on putting a big system in your car - especially if all your doing with it is driving around town all day listening to bass test tracks.
| Andrew426 wrote: |
| I dont really see the point in putting big sound systems in cars anyway. Cars are for driving, houses are for putting big sound systems in. As long as you can hear it clearly and its loud enough, there is no point in spending big bucks on putting a big system in your car - especially if all your doing with it is driving around town all day listening to bass test tracks. |
I agree totally. What's the point of spending all this money to make your car almost unuseable? In high school I had a $1000 system with the cheapest decent amp and sub I could buy. I spent the rest of my cash flow on my home stereo. The cheap-ish car stereo was plenty loud, honestly, and I could drive around without waking up the neighborhood. The accoustics in a car are bad enough that there's no point wasting too much money on hi-fi stuff and there's absolutely no point to putting 15" subs in a car and making it shake to pieces. Nobody thinks you're cool when all they can hear is your trunk lid rattling. | Srs2388 wrote: |
How many of you love car audio?
I like to get speakers as big and loud as I possibly can myself.
Then ride around with the back seat down (so it's louder) and the windows open.
It's quiet awesome. |
I love it. Personally I dont care if people from a mile away can hear me coming. I care more about how it sounds once your in the car. I mean I have a 2K system in my car and I think I paid less than $500. People like to go out and spend 5K on the best possible subs, amps, speakers, and head unit and it just isnt worth it.Just check what the limits are on car audio audability outside the vehicle in your jurisdiction. Most places say it's illegal if your audio is audible a certain distance away from the car.
Doesn't it make more sense to put your good audio system somewhere with decent acoustics so you can enjoy it, though? Ie, not in a car.
| qscomputing wrote: |
Just check what the limits are on car audio audability outside the vehicle in your jurisdiction. Most places say it's illegal if your audio is audible a certain distance away from the car.
Doesn't it make more sense to put your good audio system somewhere with decent acoustics so you can enjoy it, though? Ie, not in a car. |
It depends on where you spend most of your time. If you have a job that you travel alot for it wouldnt make much sense to have a 7.1 Channel Home theatar system sitting at home hooked up to a 52" flat panel hanging on the wall. Instead it would be more convenient to have a very high end CD deck or a flip out dvd player with an aux input for any portable media players as well as having a nice set up speakers in the front, back, and some subs.[quote="whitedragon551"] | qscomputing wrote: |
| If you have a job that you travel alot for it wouldnt make much sense to have a 7.1 Channel Home theatar system sitting at home hooked up to a 52" flat panel hanging on the wall. Instead it would be more convenient to have a very high end CD deck or a flip out dvd player |
What for? so you can relax and watch a movie while your driving? 
Also, there is a difference between having good sound quality that you can hear (which many modern car stereos are good for) and driving round with your car making horrible buzzing noises because you decided the factory audio wasn't good enough for you.
What I think many people forget is that cars arent just a random assortment of parts, manufacturers spend billions of dollars a year getting everything to work properly together. The speakers that came in your car arent just there by accident, the whole audio system has been assembled specifically for that model, and all interior surfaces, the materials they are made of and acoustic properties are taken into account when selecting these parts.
I say the same thing to idiots who cut the springs down on their cars. Car makers spend millions testing and developing to get suspention settings perfect, and anyone who thinks he can improve on that by having a few beers on a sunday afternoon and taking a grinder/blowtorch to his springs is obviously an idiot.[/rant] (BTW: your quote is wrong; whitedragon551 said that, not I)
Car audio in low-end cars is not audiophile quality - but it is (almost) in higher-end cars. But to be honest you will never get "perfect" audio quality in a car quite simply because the purpose of a car is to be *driven* so it is designed primarily to be drivable, and the other features are built around that. For example, you wouldn't put the driver's seat in the very centre of the car - which is where it would be best placed for audio quality.
Andrew426 does have a very good point though.
| qscomputing wrote: |
(BTW: your quote is wrong; whitedragon551 said that, not I)
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Uh sorry dude, I hit quite and put both [ quote="author" ] tags in, but only one [ /quote ] tag, and i must have deleted the wrong one.
