Anyone else still into car audio?

torontoke

torontoke

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Just like the title asks.
Curious if I'm the only one left that still appreciates a great sounding car stereo?
I have a pretty crazy stereo in my old car but I need to upgrade my truck speakers. I haven't bought any equipment in the last 10years cus it all seemed like cheaply made crap

Have any of the good speaker companies survived?
 
visajoe1

visajoe1

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torontoke said:
Just like the title asks.
Curious if I'm the only one left that still appreciates a great sounding car stereo?
I have a pretty crazy stereo in my old car but I need to upgrade my truck speakers. I haven't bought any equipment in the last 10years cus it all seemed like cheaply made crap

Have any of the good speaker companies survived?
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oh man, i miss messing with my cars. i had systems in all of them until i got the job i have now and a work car. ill do it again one day.
same brands you remember are still around. i was a fosgate dude then, still dig them. but i would probly go with jl audio subs with some bose mids/highs if i built one now. for amps, i would go with jl audio or fosgate. the hard part (maybe costly?) i imagine now, is hooking this stuff up to the touch screen audio systems cars have now. i wouldnt want to rip that out and put in a cd player just to have a system...
 
torontoke

torontoke

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Jl and Rockford are mass produced in China now. Most of the old big name companies are.

My whole car is old jl audio gear.
61/2 components, 6x9, and 3 10w6 subs.
Now I'm trying to make my truck sound less like a soup can
 
visajoe1

visajoe1

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torontoke said:
Jl and Rockford are mass produced in China now. Most of the old big name companies are.

My whole car is old jl audio gear.
61/2 components, 6x9, and 3 10w6 subs.
Now I'm trying to make my truck sound less like a soup can
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lol at the soup can. what truck are you workin with? rattling license plates drives me insane!
 
torontoke

torontoke

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F150 lariat supercab
I have a touchscreen deck two amps and a single 12" but it sounds like an iPhone to me. Hollow n shiite

rkymtnman said:
check out these guys, i'm sure they ship to canada.

crutchfield.com
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Ya they have a Canadian site too but I don't know if any of the stuff is worth buying.
Maybe I need to find good old used stuff idk
 
TacoMac

TacoMac

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It's not that you're the only one left that appreciates good car audio, it's just that manufacturers have started putting such wonderful sound systems in cars from the factory that aftermarket car audio is dead.
 
visajoe1

visajoe1

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TacoMac said:
It's not that you're the only one left that appreciates good car audio, it's just that manufacturers have started putting such wonderful sound systems in cars from the factory that aftermarket car audio is dead.
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good point. my stock speaker system in my work car, ford escape, is pretty legit actually. leaps and bounds ahead of standard stereo equipment in the 90's
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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torontoke said:
My car is 153 db doubt any factory stereo is getting near that.
But I do know what u mean.

Seems the quality of product has gone Down over the years
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did you hear of US Amps made in Florida from back in the 90's? i worked with a guy that had a system that repped their amps and they were killer. like 1/2 ohm stable. wonder if he still has his hearing all these years later??
 
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