Hey, anyone into car audio? Another hobby of mine. :bigsmile:
Used to be but its been a few years. My old GTI had some MB Quart components, RF 12”, and a PPI amp driving it all. That probably dates me. Is PPI still around?
my 96 saab 900se turbo had two rockord hx2 12” subs, infinity components and a pioneer premier head unit. and a kicker amp, dont remember watts. want to say 1200 rms, but may be wrong.
you could hear it coming a mile away, and it was very clear and crisp sound.
the subs didnt sound no where near as good in my 01.5 passat glx. probably because it was in a sealed trunk and not a hatch back. not as much air to move around
I am a bit.
I have a single type R 15” in the hatch on 600rms(doesnt sound like much but it get loud)
Also have a 4channel amp running my rear 6x9’s and my Illusion audio Carbon 6 components up front. Badass tweets that are a copper beryllium composite and woofers are inverted neodymium magnet slim mounts.
Deck is a pioneer 8500x
Before buying cars with integrated stereos I was really into it.
Nothing beats the really physical experience of real good car-hifi!
I’ve always been into sound, whether it be hi-fi, homecinema or car audio.
Actually turned a full circle and I’m really pleased going back to simple stereo again with a pair of Canton Ergo RC-L:s driven by a Nad C270 amp.
A H/K Avr255 is used as pre-amp.
Had an old Volvo 740 with an Alpine head-unit, Dls reference 3-way kit in the frontdoors and 2 Dls 12” subs in a vented box playing through the ski-hatch.
Had to cut out a big portion of the hat-shelf though to get the bass into the car as it had a sealed trunk.
First used Signat amps but later changed to Genesis, really great sound!
I have actually played with the thought of buying some high-quality used stuff to put in our –02 Renault Clio… Probably wont have the time though…
3 kids can do that to you… 
My car has a cassette player and AM/FM radio… :party:
my vdub has 3 speakers and no head unit 
2 hours a day drive is FUUUUUN
When I first got my JDM, it took me an hour to figure out why my radio didn't work (static). After troubleshooting the antenna, leads, grounding, I finally realized that the radio band in Japan was different from North American standards.
Dumb@ss!!
luckily I knew which side of the road to drive on.
I have a pretty simple, decent setup in my civic. I have a JVC bluetooth media receiver, MB Quart 4 channel amp, Alpine type X components and 2 ported Phoenix Gold 10s in the back. It’s definitely not audiophile grade, but the cost of it all was <$500.
i wish mine was diesel, and 75? i dont think mine will do that. scary enough at 65
My system in my 1990 Xtracab Toyota truck is about 21 years old, but still sounds pretty good.
Sony Pre-Amp CD deck.
Rockford Fosgate 75 watt X4 power amp.
Front speaker’s Canton 6.5 2 way separates with crossovers.
Rear speakers Canton 8.5 2 way separates with crossovers.
All speakers mounted on door or side panels, no box. Didn’t want a box taking up space in back.
All panels and doors lined with Dynamat and dampened with De-blur.
Speaker cables and interconnects are OFC Audioquest.
Had a friend run a spectrum sound analyzer in the truck so we could determine the crossover slopes.
Also tweaked the acoustics in the cab so the highs don’t get over magnified with all that glass.
77 f-100
jvc digital media receiver don’t play cd’s. I got this because Its Bluetooth and I love my Pandora.
2 HDC310 Copper Coil Subwoofers. Don’t know how I am going to do the box yet. T-ish shape subs between the seats
Box will start at dash them go to the back of the cab and and end behind the driver and passenger seats. Ruff idea maybe.
crappy old massive audio doors running of headunit till I figure out new doors and amp setup.
09 fusion…………….
Don’t know yet wife wont let me do anything till its pink and black.
This hobby has been on the back burner for a while
Yup, definite hobby, but slow as hell to get my system into my Focus.
Will have Creative Sound Solutions LD25X Tweeters, they are XBL^2, they will go in A-Pillars.
For mids I will be using Rainbow Car Audio Germanium Mids
For a sub I have a Dayton Audio HO12 DVC in 1 cube sealed.
HU is a Kenwood eXcelon KDC-X993, I love this HU as it has great iPod controls, looks good and has very clean outputs.
Amps are Clarion XH5410 4ch and Clarion XH7110 sub amp.
All of this runs through a Zapco DSP6 for crossover, EQ and Time Alignment duties.
Definitely 100% for sound quality, don’t care about being a bass head anymore, just nice loud clean sound.
Hope to have it all up in a month or less, only ~2 years after buying my car 
Snap I’ve only just swapped to a CD/Tuner, does USB etc as well, previously was my 1994 bought Kenwood KRC855RL head unit which was radio/cassette/CD changer, loved it but last time I took it for repair can’t get bits any more, very sad day in my life, after 5-7 repairs had done me well.
I have MB quart rear speakers, and JBL fronts, but 450bhp of tyre screeching cossie is still noisy ha ha!!
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My Vdub only has three speakers for the most part. The driver side speaker is going and it keeps cutting in and out so I plan on fixing it up a good bit soon with a new radio, driver, etc. The old cassette tape, FM/AM really feels quite dated especially when you’ve had the chance to sit in cars that have BT and everything integrated; at least a line in would be nice.
I’m going to have to keep it pretty cheap though, I don’t drive that much and I have to work on a students budget; + anything too nice will get stolen anyways. I might try and cram a sub into the wheel well but I’d rather keep the space if I can.
I’m driving a mk4 ’99 TDI Jetta/Bora. It’s a great car with good econ, no problem on the HW for the most part and going 75mph+ if a little noisy (Auto, geared a little too low). I’m hoping to take it to 300,000+ mi and if the trans goes out, swap it to manual (Great frame/body shape; almost no rust).
I think that I only have 2 speakers :_( 5.6 liter Mercedes 560SL to drown out the awful crap that comes over the radio. The original Mercedes (Becker?) radios had the Seppuku circuit in them that caused the radio to kill itself when provoked… or not. After 4 warranty replacements in as many months they put the Sony “bento box” radio in. They slide in/out of a cage in the dash. I have a couple of spare radios just in case. I had to replace the LCD display in one because it started to bleed.
One of my first cars was a 1980 metro, that had just one speaker in the centre of the dash, saying that my 1969 mini’s had no stereo as std ha ha.
I liked it when the SPARKOMATIC was introduced to the UK, sadly it didn’t catch on, for a budget set they sounded great I thought.
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