Best/SQ - component set - NO budget help

[OlogyAudio 10+ year member]

check your PM box

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

Even with horns, midbass, and all the eq and crossovers you need, would still probably cost less than a lot of these sets people are suggesting.......

 

[Mackenzie 10+ year member]

Great set, and it comes with the warranty from audiosavings if anything goes wrong. This is a great ebay company to buy from.

http://cgi.ebay.com/PHOENIX-GOLD-ELITE-X6-5-6-5-600w-CAR-COMPONENT-SPEAKERS_W0QQitemZ5795687951QQcategoryZ32819QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

check your PM box

Hey man, can't you share with the group?? I'm on the market for different comps too. Except I'm looking more for raw drivers since my system will be active.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Hey man, can't you share with the group?? I'm on the market for different comps too. Except I'm looking more for raw drivers since my system will be active.

So then, PM him.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Or if you want numbers to brag of, Oz Matrix comps have gotten the worlds only IASCA perfect score. I never heard them, but I bet they are pretty high up there, or had one insane installer.

That was a highly, highly, highly modified vehicle. It was the "back seat driver"...yes, they relocated the steering/gas/brake/etc controls to the rear seat of the vehicle. They also had a very, very unorthodox speaker setup in terms of what speakers were located where and what speakers were playing. So, it was the installation and setup, NOT the speakers, that got them that score.

Audiolife was (is?) good friends with the people who built that car.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Price means nothing in regards to being 'high end' or not.

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I honestly think you are going about this all wrong. Looking at price, and wanting "high end" does not entail you will actually end up with good sound. Instead of asking what costs the most, why not ask what sounds good, since that's what they are actually for? High end sound does not need to come at a high end price......Installation and tuning are far more important. And without that (installation and tuning), even your "high end" expensive speakers will sound like ***.

 

[OlogyAudio 10+ year member]

Hey man, can't you share with the group?? I'm on the market for different comps too. Except I'm looking more for raw drivers since my system will be active.

You have a PM too...

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

That was a highly, highly, highly modified vehicle. It was the "back seat driver"...yes, they relocated the steering/gas/brake/etc controls to the rear seat of the vehicle. They also had a very, very unorthodox speaker setup in terms of what speakers were located where and what speakers were playing. So, it was the installation and setup, NOT the speakers, that got them that score.
Audiolife was (is?) good friends with the people who built that car.

all that was playing in the car was 2 tweeters and 2 5.25" midbasses and the only speaker that was oz in that set up was a rear tweeter. 1 side rear tweeter and the oppisite side of the fronts was playing (no sub at all) the other speakers were protech. the car had 4 protech 5.25's and 2 tweeters up front the rear was 2 oz tweeters and 6 oz 12's (they were never used in sq) now later on they did switch out the protechs for a 6.5" oz set (set up as a coax) and it ran constant 37's on rta by themselves 20-20k and could almost hit 120 db lol. with the subs on it sounded ok but the way they were set up (ib) they tended to run a little loud. the car didnt have a dash so to speak it was moved to the headliner and it had 2 huge kick panels with the protech (and later oz) speakers in it. the front was designed to run 20-20k by itself as what they tended to do with most of their comp cars. it was driveable and very unique little red lemans

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

all that was playing in the car was 2 tweeters and 2 5.25" midbasses and the only speaker that was oz in that set up was a rear tweeter. 1 side rear tweeter and the oppisite side of the fronts was playing (no sub at all) the other speakers were protech. the car had 4 protech 5.25's and 2 tweeters up front the rear was 2 oz tweeters and 6 oz 12's (they were never used in sq) now later on they did switch out the protechs for a 6.5" oz set (set up as a coax) and it ran constant 37's on rta by themselves 20-20k and could almost hit 120 db lol. with the subs on it sounded ok but the way they were set up (ib) they tended to run a little loud. the car didnt have a dash so to speak it was moved to the headliner and it had 2 huge kick panels with the protech (and later oz) speakers in it. the front was designed to run 20-20k by itself as what they tended to do with most of their comp cars. it was driveable and very unique little red lemans

Hey, what year was that?? Was it around the late 90s or am I thinking of a differetnt car.?? I remember watching an IASCA finals video with the "backseat driver" and I thought it was from 97 or 98.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

horns arent bad but its car dependant. if you have a huge center console horns might not be the ticket. they arent that hard to set up/install. they eq as well as anyother speaker i have tried (thats been tons) never had a set up nor seen a competition set up that didnt need/get alot of eq. a car is NOTHING like a home audio set up other than the fact they both use speakers. a car interior makes a huge diff as oppossed to an open room but to me thats rather obvious.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

Hey, what year was that?? Was it around the late 90s or am I thinking of a differetnt car.?? I remember watching an IASCA finals video with the "backseat driver" and I thought it was from 97 or 98.

that was ryan bess's festiva the second backseat driver. it was alot different than the lemans. some say it was much better (had alot going on as oppossed to the lemans) it had a bab computer in it (dont see the need for that really its a big diagnostic tool) it was a neat car but wasnt the original. the lemans had black magic speakers in it in early 94 and pj's autosound ( about 20 other different manufacturers wanted in it) helped put in a protech italian speaker set that iirc sold for about 4-5k. pj's autosound (erie , pa)was the most dominate team/shop ever (thinking between the years 89-95 just about ever car they entered won world finals at least once). if you know of joe black's (aka time keeper on carstereo.com) car thats where it came from. in 95 is when the all oz speaker set came into play but after the 40. kirk perry was my installer before he retired the lemans was his. he was also doing another car that would have set a new bench mark in sq was a near back seat driver 87 mazda rx 7 but iasca outlawed them into one class and at the time only had like 2 cars nation wide in that class so they stopped building it. it only had 3 source points and sounded REALLY big (heard it with basically no interior in it) it had 3 aria (now memphis) sync 8's 3 audio control center channel processors and 3 audio art 50 hc's. that car woulda been the bomb lol best car i ever heard without any carpet or door panels lol or dash

 

[Justintoxicated 10+ year member]

Go Rainbow, Seas Lotus references, Dynaudio or DLS among others.

DLS Iridiums can be found in 5.25 bu 6.5 or 8 inch would be better.

I doubt you will beat the $7000 rainbow set since you have no budget!

Well you could also go active. You better get a **** good install if you plan to run $7000 fronts!

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

I doubt you will beat the $7000 rainbow set since you have no budget!

Well you could also go active. You better get a **** good install if you plan to run $7000 fronts!

http://www.madisound.com/pdf/accuton.pdf

Go 3-way with a pair of D30-6 tweeters ($4200 each), D50-6 dome midranges ($10,200 each), and then something like the Scanspeak Revs for midbass.....that'd be a pretty pricey setup //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

Go Rainbow, Seas Lotus references, Dynaudio or DLS among others.
DLS Iridiums can be found in 5.25 bu 6.5 or 8 inch would be better.

I doubt you will beat the $7000 rainbow set since you have no budget!

Well you could also go active. You better get a **** good install if you plan to run $7000 fronts!

when it comes to a point the insatall will make or break how it sounds if you think its more equipment based you have ALOT to learn. a home tower speaker is pretty easy to set up and listen to as opossed to a car (the lemans was the closet thing to a home stereo type set up you could have in a car and it still was alot different) to me speakers of that cost are about as wasteful as it gets unless you want the prestige of owning them...still doesnt mean that a 300 dollar set can't sound/perform better