What's Your Audio Set Up

IM wondering who hear even lieks good tunes in their car. Soooo, post it. Wether you tore your CD player and speakers out to save 4lbs or you added over 200lbs like me. Planned and current.

Make/Modle/Year:

Head Unit:

Front Stage (front speakers):

Front Stage Amplifier:

Rear Fill (rear speakers, if applicable):

Rear Fill Amplifier (if applicable):

Subs:

Sub Amplifier:

Sub Enclosure:

Electrical Upgrades:

Other (EQ's, Line Drivers, Active Cross Overs, Bass Engines, Music Kegs, Ipod interfaces, Blue Tooth, Navigation, etc...):

Make/Modle/Year: 2000 Mazda B3000

Head Unit: Eclipse 3400 (on its way)

Front Stage (front speakers): REaudio RE componets (in the process saving for Ascendant Audio Acro Mids and eventually new highs)

Front Stage Amplifier: USamps IS2080

Rear Fill (rear speakers, if applicable): N/A

Rear Fill Amplifier (if applicable): N/A

Subs: Ascendant Audio Avalanche 18. In the market for REaudio SX 15, Stereo Integrity SI Magnum 15, or 2 Incriminator Audio LI 12's for competiton.

Sub Amplifier: Hifonics BX1205D (looking for a new one to save for)

Sub Enclosure: Ava18 Enclosure is 7.5Cuft@28Hz for daily and w/e i want for competition, just have to change the port plug.

Electrical Upgrades: 1/0awg Big 3, over the summer im looking for a mean green alternator and Optima Red Top

Other: Clarion 7band 1/2 DIN EQ

96 Civic LX

Alpine 9853

CDT CL Components

Alpine MRP-T130

No Rear

Audiobahn Flame Q(being replaced by Ascendant Arsenal 12)
3.2 Ported 32 Hz

Big 3 1/0 (Red top to come) New alternator

Stock baby!!!

The Girl's Set Up

Make/Modle/Year: 1989 Toyota Camry (all-trac baby)

Head Unit: Pioneer DEH 3700

Front Stage (front speakers): Hollywood Sound 6.5" Co-Axils in Kick Pods

Front Stage Amplifier: Front Two Chanels of Hifonics ZX 4400

Rear Fill (rear speakers, if applicable): n/a

Rear Fill Amplifier (if applicable): n/a

Subs: (2) Ascendant Audio Assasin 10's

Sub Amplifier: Rear Chanels of ZX4400

Sub Enclosure: "Wicked One" 4th Order Horn Loaded Bandpass (woot!)

Electrical Upgrades: None

Other: None for now

Stock Harmon Kardon BMW Premium Sound System.

Make/Modle/Year: 1991 3000gt DOHC

Head Unit: Pioneer DEH-P6700MP (face flip down)

Front Stage (front speakers): Aftermarket Infinity

Front Stage Amplifier:

Rear Fill (rear speakers, if applicable): Aftermarket Infinity

Rear Fill Amplifier (if applicable):

Subs: Polk Audio DB1

Sub Amplifier: Sony 1000w

Sub Enclosure: Sealed

Electrical Upgrades:

Other (EQ's, Line Drivers, Active Cross Overs, Bass Engines, Music Kegs, Ipod interfaces, Blue Tooth, Navigation, etc...):

Pioneer Cassette/AM/FM Head unit.

1 Functioning Pioneer speaker in the rear.

Everytime I turn off the car, I loose my presets. Wasn't wired in correctly, and I have no intention of fixing it.

^^^ Nice, you should upgrade to an A-track.

A-track.

What the hell is an A-Trac?

What the hell is an A-Trac?
These bigass things...

And it's 8-track..

http://www.videointerchange.com/images/8-Track.jpg
http://www.videointerchange.com/images/8-TrackCartridge.jpg

A consortium consisting of Ampex, Lear Jet, Ford, Motorola and RCA Records joined forces to create the "Stereo-8" format tape players. The initial target market called for a cartridge system that could be added as an automotive luxury option. "Stereo-8" is the format's actual correct name, though later it became better known as the 8 Track Cartridge. The format uses 1/4 " tape divided into 8 tracks and recorded at a speed of 3.75 ips. The audio is recorded and played back in 2 channel stereo. Four stereo passes yields the 8 tracks and thus it's name. The tape is stored on only one endless loop reel, and tape is supplied from the center of the reel. For the most part, it worked ok, but was sometimes prone to jamming... The tape was notorious for binding up after constant use, as the lubricating agent was worn away.

Magnetic sensing tape marks where the tape is spliced together to form the one large loop and subsequently the beginning of the tracks. When the metallic tape strip is detected by the sensor, a solenoid driving a latching mechanism, steps the head tower assembly down to the next group of stereo tracks. At the end of program 4, the tower assembly latches back to the top. Track switching invariably made a neat distinctive "cher-clunk" sound, endemic to the 8 track. Since the tape is endless, the process goes on ad-infinitum. Interesting to note that this was the first audio player of it's kind to employ mechanical "automation" for continuous play as a standard feature. The head tower latching mechanism was quite ingenious, and it's head positioning, surprisingly accurate, considering the mechanical menagerie of parts. Early units were players only, intended for automotive installations. Home recorders were soon added to the product line to allow recording of personal material.
Audio quality was actually quite good by the standards of the day, and the 8 track became an instant hit. The 8 track was actually the first truly successful format for commercial distribution of recorded music on tape, until it was replaced by the smaller compact cassettes which slowly gained in popularity. It's popularity in the automotive industry, sparked the development of much higher quality speakers found in cars & even trucks.

What's unusual, is the fact that the format was first used as part of the automobile's sound system and was later widely adopted for use in the home. In all other cases, the opposite is true.

Though initially intended only as a two channel stereo format, it's 8 separate tracks offered an excellent opportunity for recording all tracks simultaneously at once (known as discrete track recording). Though the format was fully capable of recording up to all 8 tracks at once in one direction, for reasons unknown, no manufacturer ever made a deck to fully utilize the 8 track discrete potential - most likely due to a very limited market. A few manufacturers did go "half way" however, with the maximum number of discrete tracks capable of being recorded at once being 4 tracks. Four track discrete format tapes (quad) can still be found on eBay, however the decks to play them are becoming somewhat more scarce. It's interesting to note that this was the first successful 4 track discrete format to find it's way into the hands of the consumer. I suppose you could say the 8 track quad was the first commercially successful "Surround Sound" system !


Audio history = http://www.videointerchange.com/audio_history.htm

I know 8track, I used to have one for some ass odd reason. I was just giving him shit.

And it's 8-track..


Yeah.........thats what I said....:grinno:

Make/Modle/Year:1996 Ford Contour.

Head Unit: Kenwood KDC-319

Front Stage (front speakers):Infinity Reference 5010CS (5 1/4")

Front Stage Amplifier: None, yet.

Rear Fill (rear speakers, if applicable):cheap 6x9's (just for rear fill)

Rear Fill Amplifier (if applicable):none, not planned.

Subs: (2) MTX road thunders (12's) not sure on model # (soon to be ascendant assassin 12's)

Sub Amplifier: MTX Thunder 942

Sub Enclosure: sealed, 1.35 cu ft per sub

Electrical Upgrades: none.

Make/Modle/Year: Subaru Impreza 2002 (USDM 2003)

Head Unit: Alpine CDA-9855 - everyone hates the slidey bar thing....i just don't use it, hahaha

Front Stage (front speakers):uhm.....stock

Front Stage Amplifier: ...stock

Rear Fill (rear speakers, if applicable): ...stock

Rear Fill Amplifier (if applicable): useless

Subs:none

Sub Amplifier:none

Sub Enclosure:none

Electrical Upgrades:yup...none

Other (EQ's, Line Drivers, Active Cross Overs, Bass Engines, Music Kegs, Ipod interfaces, Blue Tooth, Navigation, etc...):again...none

I'm so poor...

1992 Nissan 240sx SE Fastback

Panasonic CQ-C5310U

Front: Infinity

Rear: Infinity

Sub: Two 10" JL w3

Sub Amp: Profile 500w x2

Sub Enc: (Lazy to check the brand) Bandpass

Earthquake EQ, Desiel audio tweeters

Make/Modle/Year: 91 mazda rx-7

Head Unit: stock with cracked lcd

Front Stage (front speakers):blown stockers

Front Stage Amplifier: what

Rear Fill (rear speakers, if applicable): left is intermittent, right is crackly

Rear Fill Amplifier (if applicable):?

Subs: lol

Sub Amplifier: lol again

Sub Enclosure: lol one more time

Electrical Upgrades: none

:P

glad to see people hate music as a norm here.

glad to see people hate music as a norm here.

There is a difference between liking music and kitting ur car out into a home theatre system. It's too damn noisy to listen to music in my car and when i'm in it i'm not really in the mood for high quality music.

I mean, it would be great to have some nice speakers and a sub in the car but it costs way too much and u'd need to get sound deadening and overall the car would be weighed down.

I think most people are just more performance minded around here.

If you add a sound system it won't weigh it down that much. I know of many people who are "performance-minded" that have sound systems. It takes about a 2 minutes to take the subs and amp out. Plus it may add at the most 1/10th of a second on to you time and thats if you have large sounds system. Most people may lose a few hundreths.

i dont "hate" sound, i just think that a stock system is adequate.

but it just so happens that half of my stock system is broke so...

glad to see people hate music as a norm here.

Quite the assumption you have there.

If you add a sound system it won't weigh it down that much. I know of many people who are "performance-minded" that have sound systems. It takes about a 2 minutes to take the subs and amp out. Plus it may add at the most 1/10th of a second on to you time and thats if you have large sounds system. Most people may lose a few hundreths.

2 min.? Maybe if you have some store bought box. What about the "home theatre" fanatics that obviously don't frequent here? LOL

I noticed a difference immediately when I pulled out my speakers so yeah, weight does make a difference.

I noticed a difference immediately when I pulled out my speakers so yeah, weight does make a difference.

well... your car does have only 5 ft-lbs of torque... :grinno:

i can make a high quality sealed fiberglass enclosure that weighs less than 25lbs. THere are good subs that weight less than 20lbs. amps that weigh less than 10. Basically i can give you a sub for around 0.05sec off your 1/4mile.

and mids/highs/HU are already part of the car and all togather weigh less than 15lbs in alot of cases.

oh and i can make amp/sub removal of that sub/enclsorue combination as easy as a few bolts and a few alan screws. :)

well... your car does have only 5 ft-lbs of torque... :grinno:


Ha, is that at the wheels or crank?

Ha, is that at the wheels or crank?

both. 1st gear is all he needs...or the equivilant of :lol:

well while we are on the audio topic, i did take my cd player out today and fix the connections. 3 of the 4 speakers kept cutting out, very annoying. seems that some of the connections in the wiring harness werent the greatest, even though they were securly attached. im not sure why they werent working well.

but i managed to fix the problem permanantly. i got pissed about it so i decided to just solder all of the connections. so basically there is no f'ing way there can be bad connections now. sounds good.

also one of the prongs in the plug for one of the right front speaker wires wasnt going in right. so consequently for the past year my right front didnt work right. today when i took it all out i finally figured out what it was and fixed it. the prong was bent a little and didnt go in the slot it was supposed to, so when i connected the plug the entire prong actually got pushed backwards out of the plug.

2 10's in the back and a cheap cd player

amp and speakers are bazooka

Do you have a custom box Young? 2 subs in the back of a 3S isn't easy.

nope, there older, but they barely fit
the box is now cracked and i need to get a custom box made

well... your car does have only 5 ft-lbs of torque... :grinno:

That is just wrong. The CRX probably has at least 100 ft/lb. torque... more than stock for sure. If I wasn't so damn poor maybe I'd go dyno it...

haha...



jk anyway :bigthumb:

frient of mine had 2 15's in the back fo a VR4 :)