Best Car Stereo

I'd have to agree with the MB Quart Speakers, they have a package specifically for the 911...matched up with Mcintosh power amps...sweet.

I used to be heavily into car stereo. The MB Quarts are very hard to beat unless you go esoteric (horns under dash, etc.), and are pretty reasonably priced. They can have a tendancy to be bright in car at around 8kHz if you mount the tweeters high. If you don't have alot of dough for separates, Quart's coaxials are excellent and easy to install. This was a few years ago (around the first year Eclipse came on the scene), but I went through numerous amps while listening to the Quarts, and at the time, the Nakamichi completely blew the Soundstreams, Precision Power, etc. away in terms of being a good match up for the Quarts for transparancy, imaging, etc.. Experiment with phasing. I found the sound improved tremendously when I reversed the phasing on the tweeters. Then reversing the phasing on one side of the car, post crossover! Electrically, the two sides were out of phase, but acoustically, it compensated for sitting off-center and the imaging went from fuzzy to spectacular. Without going overboard, a nice EQ with separate right and left channel controls can really help balance the frequency irregularities that are huge in a car between the right and left. Audio Control makes a nice unit...I think mine was the EQX...it has 13 bands for both and left channels. It fits under a seat nice, and makes a good line driver to an amp in the back, as the voltage (both input and output) is variable. I had connections that I could disconnect, then put longer power supply, ground, and RCAs to so I could set the unit on my lap and tune it.

I've also heard good things about Focal Utopia line of drivers. They frequently go on sale on Ebay.

A little nastalga (is that spelt correctly?) for you motor heads. Did you know that Michael Kelly, owner and designer for Aerial Accoustics (10t) worked for ADS in the late 80's and was the chief designer for the great sounding 320i and 300i speaker. He left ADS around 90ish with another higher up (i think market director, correct me anyone) and formed Aerial and produced and marketed the Aerial 10t and received speaker of the year award in 96. BTW Eclipse has been around for at least 13yrs that i remember. Most of the manuf mentioned have been sold and continue by different companys that keep the same name. I heard that Boston is no longer making car audio products. Fun Hobby and also expensive, i miss it.

That's cool, I love Porsches, Alfas too. I recently bought a new car stereo and was really into car audio before home audio took my money away. I listened to a lot of speakers, seperates and coaxial, and found dynaudio to be the best, but it is pretty expensive. Your gonna need your money for spare parts!. For a little half the cost of dyn, boston's pro series are the best, and they are still doing car audio. I found quarts to be too bright, especially thier coaxials which use those terrible inverted dome tweeters. Their Premium Reference's are pretty good though, but don't let those sneaky dealers trick you into the Q series if you go that route. They're practically the same speaker, and very few can tell the difference in sound between them. McIntosh makes really nice amps, but the difference between amps in car audio is pretty small. Get a head unit that looks good, get it installed by the best person you can find, and you'll be ready to pick up some hotties.