Best Buy techs are hilarious

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I was told the ever-infamous not enough power will blow the subs

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Im actually banned from the BB in Elizabethtown, KY because I attempted to pull the district manager across the counter by his throat when they didnt honor a warranty on a head unit. Needless to say the cops arrived //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif Im usually a pretty nice guy until he got smart with me.

 

[Speedyd718 10+ year member]

it's sad cuz all the misnomers that your guys here are what are shown on the training mods. fortunately for me i got those questions wrong on the test.

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

One of my teammates went to the Installer's institute down in florida, he's very proficient with stereos and whatnot, and knows what the hell he is talking about.

He applies for a job at best buy(s) and gets shut down.

All the BB's i've been to have had nothing but completely idiotic and ignorant people working at them.

It boggles my mind.

 

[90accordman 5,000+ posts]

Its funny because i know alot of guys who work at CC and have thier cars done at a local audio shop instead of thier own work lmao

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

i know ill get laughed at for saying this, but the installs at my CC are actually pretty darn good. we have some very skilled, knowledgeable people

You are one of the lucky ones then.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

its not that hard to run a power wire lol.... if u get paid for it u should take your time and do it right.... i dont see any best buy or CC doing anything mroe than the basic stuff

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

awesome ... really needed the wonderful sound of 6x9s.... i hate customers

 

[Shyne151 10+ year member]

we cut through the dash and rear deck of a 63 impala and installed 6x9's and an eclipse h/u. sawing through the dash of an antique car aint basic

Anymore it is i do probably 3 cutputs a week at my circuit city. The salesmen at my store are idiots, one guy came from tv's and the other knows some stuff. Myself and the assistant manager are hte only ones in the department that know anything. My mangaer was a TV guy... they just fired some guy and hired a 50year old guy that knows nothing about car audio.... and they wonder why cc and bb have a rep of be retarded.

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

cant 120db's at a high frequency like 5k plus make you go deaf?

 

[Insomniac119 10+ year member]

+3 dB is twice the acoustic power+6 dB is double the physical volume

+10 dB is perceived as double the volume to the human ear

BTW, the "tech" probably confused dB with dBA ... 120 dB @ 50 Hz (90 dBA) is moderately loud ... 120 dB @ 1000 Hz (120 dBA) is very loud ...

You're right, a 120 db high piched squeel would definitally hurt my ears real quick, but we were talking about subs in the

we cut through the dash and rear deck of a 63 impala and installed 6x9's and an eclipse h/u. sawing through the dash of an antique car aint basic

Yes it is (if you consider a 24 year old car an antique). I ran all my own wires for my HU in my 81 buick. The 12v+ constant, the 12v+ ignition, the ground, the speaker wires to the doors (through the factory gromits), and all the wires going back to the trunk in one day. And on top of that I installed a viper alarm myself (first and only time) within 4 hours.

The older the car, the easier. I would loooooooove to work on a 63 impala though, ****!

 

[draarong2004 10+ year member]

So I went to best buy today to see if we could pick up some speaker ends ($5 for 4, I passed it up), and we decided to test the subs they had, and the tech guy came to help us. It was quit comical"
Him: "120db will make your ear drums explode and you're ears will bleed, exceding 110db is very dangerous."

Me: "Don't bandpass boxes peak at a certain frequency, and sound bad at others?"

Him: "No, they perform very well at all fequencies when they're in a trunk, only in open air are they loudest at one frequency."

Him: "One more db is twice the pressure on your eardrums." (that might be true, I don't know, but it doesn't sound right.)

I'm not exaderating any of those quotes, that is exactly what he told me.

ish, well i must be superman then, because i roll around daily listening to music at over 130 db's //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[draarong2004 10+ year member]

cant 120db's at a high frequency like 5k plus make you go deaf?

i wouldn't think so, it may cause a short period of "deafness" but thats about it.

 

[draarong2004 10+ year member]

Yes ... Approximately 3.5 minutes @ 120 dBA will cause permanent hearing damage ...

if you could stand listening to it for that long, normal human reflex would be to turn the hand counter clockwise......or if your at work just put in ear plugs

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

Sort of unrelated, but my buddy stated I would gain approx 3db of sound per sub if I siwtched my 2 15's from a sealed box to a ported box. Does this sound right?