My start into car audio actually started cos of road noise!!! I couldn't hear my music cos the std system was crapy and road noise drowned most of the music.

My first 'system' was a pair of 6x9" in the rear shelf of my hatch back with the std casset player hooked up to my discman (this was like 12 years ago almost).

I never really wanted a SPL system - all I wanted was to listen to my music. I guess over the years I've just improved on the previous systems I've had. Bass is good - but for me it has to fit within the spectrum of the rest.

Da'flea.

Final Battle 02

Was on the CAA stand all weekend and in the motel them dodgie melbourn guys beat the SPL out of me

to start with something different, all my mates wanted to go spl, so i thought id go sq, but now im in sq, i could never go back to spl *shudders at the thought of turning the sub level up*

I heard T-bro's car

i'll never be a purist.. but i had a decent go at it with my current set up:)

I found myself going straight for SQ coz I came straight from home Hi-Fi. A nice setup at home left me with little doubt what I wanted in my car!

too many years ago to mention I started with 2 pioneer 10's and 2 12's (freeair) in the back of the crumpledore and some 6" coaxials up front and 7x10's on the rear shelf (I wonder why it had a slightly rearward soundstage )

look at my sig to see the other end of the spectrum

I went to a car audio show in Penrith, it was held in the white giant tent thing out the back of the Panthers club, over two days.

There I had a listen to a Ford Bronco. Full of Pioneer, and the system design, using all Pioneer gear, is similiar to what i'm building. This thing was fully active front and rear with 146 db of output. 146 is not a big number until you find out that were talkin bout 20hz to 20khz of SQ, at 146db. no tones or sweeps.

I pottered with various systems until recently making the decision to go the way the guy did who owned the Bronco.

It is to this day my favorite.

My aim is a live concert, loud and very clear, but also with the linearity to be low and clear.

Other honourable mentions who's car I heard after, or met are:

Andrew Green's Honda Civic.
Angelo Kanci's BMW 318.
Paul Graham- Alpine GAIT and Alpine demo cars
Graham Humphries- Power Sound (Miranda Sydney)

and also who ever owned a Falcon with the number plate "Volume" in 1992 (i think) that went to the first Car Audio Nationals show held in Sydney at Parramatta Park.

They cary the blame for my system...

[ June 16, 2003, 11:46: Message edited by: R ]

For me i saw the light, not long after my friend got subs. Driving around with very little high range and what high range there was being disrupted by way too much bass.

But i still want a bassy system, but i hope it will still be very capable at producing a nice continuous spectrum with good staging and clarity.

for me it was simple - im a perfectionist, so a balanced and realistic SQ system is the only thing that satisfies my pedantic nature

SPL and boom cars are for slobs and the mediocre

XHell. The bastard.

I believe it's an evolution that everyone takes ... to a certain degree of course!

I know lots of people will not agree with me on this ... but then again they won't be at Audiophile's Corner.

I think it's the love of music, and this seems to be true for the majority of people who posted in this thread.

I still love doof doof, but it's SQL these days and there's a time and a place for everything. Say, Saturday night cruising will still be doof doof.

I think the defining moment for me is when I first heard music so good, it made my skin crawl. The sheer clarity and depth and beauty of the music is so aparent that even a big doof doof fan like me was touched.

The raw emotions that can be evoked by music is I think why and when I realised that SQ is for me.

I think I realised that SQ was for me around the same time I realised I was attracted to boys... wait I don't like either of those.

as yall can tell by my name SPL is my game mainly because i seem to have good luck with SPL but i would like nothing more than a SQ system that can have the gains tweeked and a 5 minute box change and be able to boom a 144.5 with ease

hell i have all that why do i want a pair of new subs. oh yeah cause 144.5 ain't close enuf to 155 yet and i can't see the 10's lasting more than 3 more comps especially the way i belt them

My system while not being incredibly high end i think is reasonable for SQ and a decent amount of volume. But i got started when i was about 10 of 11 stuffing around with dads stereo (Kef Consertos) then when i was 12 i wanted a stereo but dad wouldnt let me get a crappy all in one system so he serched for month till he found an old (1985) pioneer component setup which cost less than the all in one systems goes harder and sounds better. over time i have rebuilt the speakers into better suited enclosures and changed drivers amps cdplayer pre amp scrapped the tuner added a MD deck ect. so when i put in a system into my car i wanted it to sound at least half as good as my bedroom system (which would shame most home theater systems) but im still working to get there bt i think when i install this new precision power amp we might be getting closer

My first system was loud and sounded okay, but really it was crap...coz there was too much bass.

Anyway, now I got a new car and I can't fit my Orion sub without losing my whole boot and then I'll lose the ability to take off the roof when I want.

So with space problems, I decided that I wanted a system that sounded good and didn't rattle the **** out of my new pride and joy.