What is the state of Car Audio?

[rasta4life]

I know we have the net thanks to the computer but in your opinion whats the state of Car audio these days.Or is it what it just car audio. I do miss big car audio shows that focuses on both sound quality and pure bass spl or sql.

[d77543020]

i think retail shops will turn into just install shops, there are so many customers who like to compare shop prices to internet prices and alot of them are starting to loose lots of business,all you have now is the guy who just wants to pay to have his ebay amp installed

[Villeza1]

i think retail shops will turn into just install shops, there are so many customers who like to compare shop prices to internet prices and alot of them are starting to loose lots of business,all you have now is the guy who just wants to pay to have his ebay amp installed

So true

[terra]

I think drivers built for customer specific applications will become the norm.

[SPL Blazer]

i think retail shops will turn into just install shops, there are so many customers who like to compare shop prices to internet prices and alot of them are starting to loose lots of business,all you have now is the guy who just wants to pay to have his ebay amp installed

X3, I know of a few shops in my area that do a lot of installs for guys that buy crap online. They aren't making as much money selling stuff in their own shops anymore thanks to internet stores, so they do what they have to do to get the bills paid, unfortunately for more and more shops it comes to installing stuff bought online. ***** for the shops too cause if the customer is so clueless about car audio that they have to pay a shop to install it for them, then chances are pretty good that they also have no clue how to test the gear they bought before they hand it over to a shop to install. Once something goes wrong with the item they bought they assume right away that the shop screwed it up, when more than likely it was the piece of crap they bought at a discount from some hack internet store.

[misfit138]

I had a tuna sandwich for breakfast. fml...