audioholic
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Nobody here knows if its a good deal or not. No, not even giant font OUCH guy. The truth is, that could be a rip off, and it could be a fair price. Not all installs are the same. For example, mounting the amp to a piece of wood as per quoted, that could be an amp screwed to raw mdf and screwed to the floor almost randomly, or it could be a custom cut mdf plate mounted vertically to display the amp, with a molded logo embossed under the hand-stretched leather. The enclosure could be a cookie-cutter single baffle box, raw wood and rough edges, mounted so the port sort of fires towards the holes in the rear parcel shelf, or it could be a double-walled custom designed 4th order bandpass with the port length factored so they mount directly to the rear parcel shelf and fire directly into the cabin, while the trunk displays a hand-leather covered custom shaped box with plexiglass to view the back-lit subs. The door speakers could simply be mounted directly where the old stock ones had been, using the stock wiring and virtually no custom work needed. Or they could be molded into the custom fiberglassed door panels, properly decoupled from the door, with extensive sound deadening used throughout.
One install type I describe is not worth $1300, the other is worth three or four times that. So, how do we tell you if this unknown install by an unknown person is worth some arbitrary amount? If the quote was ridiculously low or outrageously high, we could tell you. But for anything else in between, everyone here is just guessing.
One install type I describe is not worth $1300, the other is worth three or four times that. So, how do we tell you if this unknown install by an unknown person is worth some arbitrary amount? If the quote was ridiculously low or outrageously high, we could tell you. But for anything else in between, everyone here is just guessing.
