In Car Speakers!

I got a 2x 10" sub cabinet for £21, 2x 10" JBL subwoofers for £30 the pair and a 1600w Pyramid Audio amp for £45.

All from eBay, and working fantastically, sounds divine at lower volumes and when you crank it up you can make cats on the pavement explode :D

Velcro the sub down in the boot, and unless your fussy about looks, just do what I did and mount the amp on an empty area of the subwoofer cabinet :p
 
Do the front components. Disconnect the rears. If you want more volume do a kick panel install.
Nothing but sub in the rear, rear speakers mess up the soundstage.

Personally i'm a kicker whore so i'd recommend any kicker components :D
 
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rover416i said:
I got a 2x 10" sub cabinet for £21, 2x 10" JBL subwoofers for £30 the pair and a 1600w Pyramid Audio amp for £45.

All from eBay, and working fantastically, sounds divine at lower volumes and when you crank it up you can make cats on the pavement explode :D

Velcro the sub down in the boot, and unless your fussy about looks, just do what I did and mount the amp on an empty area of the subwoofer cabinet :p
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Oh dear,

Lots of people think loads of bass and volume = quality, sadly this isn't the case.

Killing all the base to your front speakers is a horrid idea, means you get nowt bit rasp rasp rasp from the front and boom boom boom from the back, great, should be a whole sound around you not two defined split frequencies coming from each end of the car.
 
I don't understand why people think there is such a difference between home audio and in car audio. You dont see many £10k home systems with 2 12" 1000w subs.
 
A car is a much harder environment to build a good audio system, you have everything working against you, poor shape (Car Cabin) for the audio, poor sound insulation, hard to get a good soundstage, you need more amplification to overcome the road noise, limited power sources, the list goes on, cars are far from ideal in terms of audio reproduction.
 
DrDee said:
I don't understand why people think there is such a difference between home audio and in car audio. You dont see many £10k home systems with 2 12" 1000w subs.
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LOL :p

You should hear a decent home system, then you will eat your pants !
 
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LOL :p

You should hear a decent home system, then you will eat your pants !
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Agreed, for my home setup I'm "only" using a 600W 12" PA driver in a tapped horn, and it really shakes the eyeballs. :D The whole thing including ply, driver and PA amp came to less than £500, so if you had 10K to play with you could get something truly awesome! :D

I would try in it the car, but as it's 6ft6, it's not exactly going to squeeze in the boot! :D
 
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LOL :p

You should hear a decent home system, then you will eat your pants !
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:confused:

I've demo'd Naim, Mark Levinson with a host of high end speakers including B&W, Linn to name a few, I also go to the sound and vision show most years.

No system I have ever encountered has twin 12"subs placed behind the sound stage and grossly over powered compared to the rest of the system, and very rarely are oval speakers used.
 
im looking at upgrading the civics head unit and speakers, coming from what was regarded as one of the best sound systems at the time the Bose in my cadillac the civic is soo soo bad :(
 
The subs weren't meant to be loud, I hardly drove around chavvin' it up with my NeYo or whatever :p

I'm pretty into my hi-fi stuff, and the sub/amp combo was a means to avoid making annoying MFD cutouts that you need to mount decent door speakers in a 400/45/ZS.

Did the job well, I was really impressed with the quality considering it was designed to be put in a Vauxhall Corsa driven by a spotty 17 year old! :p
 
DrDee said:
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I've demo'd Naim, Mark Levinson with a host of high end speakers including B&W, Linn to name a few, I also go to the sound and vision show most years.

No system I have ever encountered has twin 12"subs placed behind the sound stage and grossly over powered compared to the rest of the system, and very rarely are oval speakers used.
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:confused:

I'm failing to see what your previous post was meant to mean, seemed like you were saying there is ahrdly any difference between home and car audio ?

I don't understand why people think there is such a difference between home audio and in car audio. You dont see many £10k home systems with 2 12" 1000w subs.
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MikeHunt79 said:
Agreed, for my home setup I'm "only" using a 600W 12" PA driver in a tapped horn, and it really shakes the eyeballs. :D The whole thing including ply, driver and PA amp came to less than £500, so if you had 10K to play with you could get something truly awesome! :D

I would try in it the car, but as it's 6ft6, it's not exactly going to squeeze in the boot! :D
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I remember seeing your build thead, and seeing how massive that thing is. Probably need to get a structural engineer in :D
 
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I'm failing to see what your previous post was meant to mean, seemed like you were saying there is ahrdly any difference between home and car audio ?
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I was trying to say that I don't understand why some people aproach the two so differently.
 
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