Am i crazy or stupid? (planning on getting WAY into car audio)

[Ns1]

build an SQ system. much more useful

 

[Spac3d]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
build an SQ system. much more useful

Why not SQL?😛

<-- SQL car on a budget.

 

[spidey07]

Just an fyi on building subs.

Ported or sealed doesn't matter, you can make the sub do whatever you want.

An no, you're not crazy or stupid. You'll grow out of it. 🙂

Be careful of your hearing though. Its a cumulative effect and over 100 dbs for any extended period of time is damaging.

 

[Howard]

Harvey's likely to throw a fit if he comes in here.

 

[tm37]

I think it's great that people plu their car audio at incredibly high levels.

I work for GN OTOmetrics and we supply equiptment to audiologists that fit people with hearing aids.

The Parent company GNResound is the leader in the hearing aids market.

The great thing about hearing loss is that over 95% is noise induced hearling loss so we have no guilt when we take your money.

Also GNResound has been very active in marketing to younger people with snazzy colors and the like.

I say crank that stereo and come see me ion a few years😉

 

[MikeMike]

yea i know of someone who hits 152db with a single 15" sub.

i understand all of the bad things that can happen. but you only live once, i may only have one hearing but i only live once too.

yea, i plan on putting 120sq ft. of sound deadening in my car, and figuring out which way to point the speakers and get everything i can out of it.

MIKE

 

[Hossenfeffer]

I guess I'd have to ask... what do you want out of this? Hobbies are great, but make sure that you've got yourself covered now. Invest a bit of that scratch you use to upgrade the stereo so that you CAN do whatever you want hobby-wise as the years go by. (I didn't)

I have a very hard time jumping on the car audio extremist bandwagon. Just doesn't make sense to me. In my car, I want the best sound possible, ideally, I should have all the volume and more that I need with zero spilling out to other folks (with the windows up and such.). Like has been said before, a car is an AWFUL place to reproduce sound.

140 dB?! I realize that's nowhere near what some of these systems pump out, but come on. To what end?

My vote: spend the money on the best "sounding" sound you can get. With a target audience of a carload and -close- neighbors (cars next to you maybe), and not a city block. (And by best sounding, I mean the best reproduction, not the -most- sound, tightest bass, etc.)

If I can give a slight parallel. I'm an actor approaching 30 here soon, and I'm already feeling pain from things I've done in past shows, feeling the strain of years of having not warmed up my instrument. I'm wishing that I'd taken the time to take better care of myself. Same goes for your ears. Seriously, man. It makes absolutely zero sense to me to spend all this money on a stereo that you have to wear earplugs/covers to listen to. Call me crazy.

 

[MikeMike]

they will sound nice, its only 300 watts persub, and these subs are VERY SQ oriented. later on i might spend some more money on some component speakers, but they cost A LOT more than just subs, and by then i will need to get a HO alternator, and i will no longer have my car. My brother will have it, and he is going to help me pay for it. he understands everything.

MIKE