lol with good eq you can hear music its not like i ride around with my bass settings up just mainly for testing it out or showing someone or sometimes when i just want to hear how loud the thing is. but its the same way as my 4 wheeler because i live in a small town and found out about all kinds of stuff over the internet and i put about 1500 in my 4 wheeler few years back and mostly everyone that sees it just stands back like whoa but it's all about PATIENCE and saving. I cut grass in the summers and even into fall past two years, work at a local motocross track, and have sold stuff here and there to make money....trust me money's short now esp since i backed my moms caddy cts into a small trailer that i didn't know the guy had behind the truck when he pulled up behind me.