Do you put as much effort into your Car Audio?


I spend a lot of money on my car audio system since I'm in in my vehicle as much or more than I'm in my home. Just wondering if anyone else does. I can't stand listening to most stock systems. Let me know what you have.
japosey

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Back in the day (late80's and early 90's), I had a top of the line Kenwood cd changer with tuner pack, 2 pairs of ADS separate speakers (5 1/4 inch mids and dome tweeters), 2 15 inch Cerwin Vega subwoofers, 2 JL Audio 10 inch woofers, a 75wpc 4 channel Soundstream amp for the ADS separates, 2 Soundstream 100wpc 2 channel amps wired in mono for the subwoofers, and a 50wpc Soundstream amp wired in mono for the center fill. I also had a Kenwood 10 band graphic eq built into the dash as well as a Audio Control eq in the trunk to tune the speakers. I used all Phoenix Gold (was high end) interconnects and speaker wire. I also had a deep cycle marine battery in the trunk in conjunction with a 1 farad capacitor for storing energy and a dual charging system with high output alternator.

All this was shoehorned into a 1984 Nissan Sentra. I won many trophy's at various events as well as a 1,000.00 store credit for winning Tweeter HiFI car audio loudness war. All this came to a cruel end on the night of December 25, 1991 when the car was stolen out of my driveway. My car was found a month later in a housing project in another part of the state, stripped to the bone. They even took my gas cap and used air cleaner element.

Since then, I have focused on my home system. I had over 6 grand invested in the car system and lost everything. I did all of the work myself.
Needfreestuff.....You are right. The bass impact is addicting. Some of the notes felt like I was punched in the stomach. To be honest, that system had nice sound staging, pinpoint imaging and accuracy and it made me want to drive for hours on end. One more song always turned into playing the entire disc and so on.

It wasn't a boom and sizzle sound. It sounded like an excellent high end system. The premium sound system in my 09 Civic SI is supposed to be Hondas best for the car. It's a joke. a 6 inch midbass driver is not a subwoofer but I guess Honda thinks it is. If it weren't for the built in navigation, I would have ditched the system and had a shop install something decent.

Lowrider57.....Yes, it was terrible at the time. To this day, if I get up during the night, I always look out the window to make sure the cars are in the driveway. It really has scarred me for life. Worst part was I only had liability insurance on the car so I got nothing from insurance. I sold the car for 300 to a 17 year old that went to the Voc/Tech school. His class was going to rebuild it as their project. I was very happy to help him out.

I also wanted to mention that the Soundstream amps were considered to be one of the top high end brands at that time, and the amps certainly weren't a class D design.