THE BEST AUDIO SPEAKER

[Alien Mantis]

Originally Posted by Mobius1

Alien mantis, you need to sit in a true SQ car and i promise your opinions will change. If its a truly awesome system you can even hear a difference between where the instruments are being played on stage(with the proper music anyway).

I know what you mean.
I have experienced this several years ago.
This guy I knew was a manager at our local stereo shop. He used his car as an audio demonstrator for some of the products they sold. At the time, they were heavy into Clarion, Planet Audio, and Earthquake stuff. So he had all the top-of-the-line Clarion, Planet Audio, and Earthquake stuff in this car. Lots of Dynamat everywhere too. I remember he had four 10" subs in this thing, and they had such a tight hard hit, I couldn't believe the windows weren't breaking in this car. I have never heard anything like it before, or since.
The music was crystal clear across the whole spectrum, and the farther you cranked the volume, the louder it got while staying perfectly clean. I estimated he had around $7,000 worth of gear in this car, which was a fortune at the time. ( Early 1990's ). He didn't get to keep all the stuff, the shop was loaning most of it to him. Kinda sad though, he would play this thing for customers, then they were ruined for life. Once you have heard that, you know what can be done, and it's hard to be satisfied with a "mediocre" system.
They built custom speaker kickpanels for this car, loaded with top-end component stuff. I think it had two Earthquake amps, and maybe one or two Planet Audio amps in it, but I don't remember. I was shocked because it sounded like it had 20 amps in it. The thing that impressed me the most was, in spite of it being louder than humans can survive, it was crystal clean. I never heard that in ANY system before. The louder you get, the dirtier you are supposed to get. Not this system.
Technology has come a long way since then, but I still haven't heard a system that sounds better than that system did. I'm sure they exist, but I ask myself, what is the point?

I have a good home audio system, and a really nice surround sound system for my home theater setup, but I never could justify spending thousands of dollars on CAR AUDIO. It bakes in the sun out here where I live, and thieves steal that stuff. So I never saw the point in wasting my money. I will spend a few hundred bucks to make it sound acceptable, but beyond that, it's good enough for me. I love a SQ comp car system, but I will never do one for myself. I prefer to relax at home with a cold beer and listen to my good audio system in my house.