Boss Audio?

[staypuft]

how is it wrong, if you were on a budget and can go either amp or speaker, the obvious choice would be the amp hands down, you can have crappy speakers and juice them up to sound ok rather than have good speakers and crappy amp to power it. sure it will sound awesome if he gets awesome everything but bang for the buck putting money in the amp is a way better decision than speakers. imo first upgrade would either be amp and sub or basstube. im totally happy with my setup and i spent more money on the amps than the speakers. everybody has their own brand but different budgets to play with. i do agree if he going with what he looking at that components are the way to go instead of tweeters and a set of coax.

[_S7V7N_]

Give us a ballpark figure of about how much you wanna spend for your budget system.

[talnlnky]

Originally Posted by staypuft

how is it wrong, if you were on a budget and can go either amp or speaker, the obvious choice would be the amp hands down, you can have crappy speakers and juice them up to sound ok rather than have good speakers and crappy amp to power it. sure it will sound awesome if he gets awesome everything but bang for the buck putting money in the amp is a way better decision than speakers. imo first upgrade would either be amp and sub or basstube. im totally happy with my setup and i spent more money on the amps than the speakers. everybody has their own brand but different budgets to play with. i do agree if he going with what he looking at that components are the way to go instead of tweeters and a set of coax.

Dude... if you have a crappy speaker, and it doesn't sound good at 1watt of power, it will not sound better with 10watts, or even with 40 or 80 watts. Speakers don't work like that. A speaker will sound its best with the least amount of power. The more power you give a speaker, the more distortion it makes. There is a magic point for every speaker in which giving more power will not make it louder, but will in fact just make it distort worse and worse, and just decrease its life span.

The main difference between running speakers off a deck, and off an amp is that the amp'd setup can be turned up louder before distortion sky-rockets (distortion produced by the deck, not the speaker).

If he's fine with not cranking that volume, then better speakers. If he MUST get loud now.. yeah, an amp would be best.