2019-06-05 at 5:50 PM UTC
gadzooks
Dark Matter
[keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
I'll bury my man as low as I can,
2019-06-05 at 6:01 PM UTC
You might be a wigger if...
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2019-06-05 at 7:14 PM UTC
Helladamnleet
African Astronaut
[impartially tyrannize that lentinus]
Originally posted by gadzooks
Any of y'all ever had some real shit bangin' outta your trunk?
A few years ago I had two 12" Audiobahn subwoofers that I got used off of craigslist for $80 (for the pair).
I also managed to find a speaker box for the two of 'em at a chain store for super cheap because it wasn't quite perfect (had some kind of imperceptible flaw).
I also managed to find a deck for relatively cheap by looking around for sales.
And then (and this was the most expensive part of all), I found a cheap amp for sale. I know I should have spent more on a more quality amp… That's what it all ultimately comes down to… But I got the subwoofers for $80 and the box for $50… So I settled for a $250 amp. I can't even remember the brand/manufacturer. All I remember is that I made sure that it was rated for 1,000 watts RMS (wired at 1 ohm). I honestly don't even remember what RMS stands for, but I remember my research telling me it was the most important evaluative metric for an amplifier.
Finally, I got all the cables and other miscellaneous parts I would need from various online vendors. I even got… I wanna say 2 gauge… but it's been like 4 years and I can't remember all the specs as well as I'd like. But I knew that having 2 x 400 watts, it was gonna take some quality electrical wiring (nice and thick… that's what she said).
I put it all together myself to save yet more money. It was by no means easy (for someone like me with next to no experience installing car audio… I had a quasi-decent system back in '03, but a high school friend helped me out… well, he pretty much did it all).
…
And then… a friend of mine, doing that natural male thing that dude's do, went out and outdid me within a few weeks by getting two 12" JL7's, and some top-end 6x9's, and the whole nine yards… and he got it all professionally installed. It cost him about $15,000 total (compared to my ~$750 total - excluding (my own personal) labor), but it did blow my shit RIGHT OUT of the water.
Not a bad setup, actually.
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