Advice on purchasing amp + sub(s)

[jRoss]

All I can say is go big!

[why?]

Originally Posted by jRoss

All I can say is go big!

I disagree 1 trillion percent. It really stinks having the cops knock on your door after getting home because that pos garbage neighbor called them yet again because your car was so damn loud they could hear you coming home 1/2 a mile away. Also, that situation will cause back pain.

The best system I've heard is Derrick's. nothing about it is big except the sound, and the time he has put into it. The borderline insane attention to details, like figuring out how to quiet the windshield wipers.

All the different types of music I made him play sounded great. I didn't need to turn it up so the entire world could here it to feel the bass. Even some eminem, his small sub was plenty to make it sound great and be able to feel it.

[jRoss]

Originally Posted by why?

I disagree 1 trillion percent. It really stinks having the cops knock on your door after getting home because that pos garbage neighbor called them yet again because your car was so damn loud they could hear you coming home 1/2 a mile away. Also, that situation will cause back pain.

The best system I've heard is Derrick's. nothing about it is big except the sound, and the time he has put into it. The borderline insane attention to details, like figuring out how to quiet the windshield wipers.

All the different types of music I made him play sounded great. I didn't need to turn it up so the entire world could here it to feel the bass. Even some eminem, his small sub was plenty to make it sound great and be able to feel it.

This is why I only turn mine up on the highway. It's quite rude to pound music in residential areas, especially at night, but it's quite common around here. Cops don't tend to care. I do love the vibration when i turn it up and whatnot but I use common sense about it...I also tend to keep my bass at -7 and I have some awesome tweeters, which makes the vocals and overall sound amazing. I listen to mostly rap and metal, both sound great in my car.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by why?

pos garbage neighbor

This reminds me of something that happened to me long ago. I lived in a 3br 2ba apartment with two friends of mine. Our particular building was set up with 4 apartments with the same 1 level floor plan -- 2 upstairs units and 2 downstairs units. We lived in one of the upstairs units. A family lived below us, and they had a piano. Someone in the family played the piano at the oddest hours, and we never complained about this to anyone. My apartment mates and I always listened to music through our headphones except one time one of my apartment mates piped two songs (one after the other) through his speakers with the volume up just a bit (I was there)....during the day.....and the mom in the apartment below us (who I think was the one playing that piano at inappropriate hours) complained and got us kicked out of the complex! We'd never had a complaint made against us before that. They did let us move into another complex of our choice (same level or below -- many choices)) without re-qualifying.

The best system I've heard is Derrick's. nothing about it is big except the sound, and the time he has put into it. The borderline insane attention to details, like figuring out how to quiet the windshield wipers.

All the different types of music I made him play sounded great. I didn't need to turn it up so the entire world could here it to feel the bass. Even some eminem, his small sub was plenty to make it sound great and be able to feel it.

I know what you mean. A system that is so well designed and executed (no credit to me, except paying for it) using quality equipment that it doesn't generate any listener fatigue. I had a system like that in my GTI (minus THAT level of attention to detail....you had me thinking that sounds like my old system (in my GTI) until you mentioned quieting the wipers).