Best / Worst companies list, add your thoughts!

[mrpep]

**** ! Yeah but what was the set up ?

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

**** ! Yeah but what was the set up ?

Was 6 18's in a 6th order, but as of last week it's a 6 15's flat wall.....

Just some flea market junk for subs/amps. Come out to the show on the 24th and check it out

Stunna Jam Concert & Car Show | Can I Talk My Ish

 

[Eggroll]

What about Ascendant Audio? What category would they fall in? Are they recommended?

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

What about Ascendant Audio? What category would they fall in? Are they recommended?

Very good. Bad cs Tho

 

[Eggroll]

**** dude quick reply haha, and ahh okay thank you!

 

[Boomsday 10+ year member]

Soooo all the companies that use the same cookie cutter amps/subs should just be based on cs?

 

[trumpet 5,000+ posts]

Soooo all the companies that use the same cookie cutter amps/subs should just be based on cs?

In a market with similar products there are price differences, which affects your up-front cost, and the long term support, which is an unknown expense. CS is hugely important in this case unless you place a value of 0 on your time and you have money to burn to simply buy a new item if yours fails and the company won't back their product.

 

[The Camry]

Most recent list of good and bad car audio brands - CarAudioForum.com

We've broken this section into 4 categories:

1: Bad

2: Questionable

3: Good

4: Highest quality

Bad

Absolute

American HiFi (Rockwood)

American Pro

Audiovox

Automobile

Becker

Blackmore

Boschmann

Boss

Craig

DHD

Dual

Emerson

JDL

Jensen

Kenford

Kole

Kraco

Kronik

LA Sound

Legacy

MA Audio

Optimus (Radio Shack)

Pheonix Digital

Planet Audio (Boss, by any other name)

Power Acoustik

Profile

Pyle

Pyramid

Rockwood

Sound Storm

Sparkomatic

SPL Audio

Stetsom

Thump

Ultimate Sounds

Urban Audio

US Amps- the newer stuff

Visonik

Volfenhag

Questionable

Alphasonik

Autotek

Audiobahn

Audiopipe

Blaupunkt

Aiwa

Crunch

Elemental Designs (eD)

Hifonics

Hollywood

Kenwood (amplifiers)

Lanzar

Lightning Audio

Matsui

MB Quart

Nakamichi (newer products)

NVX Audio

Onyx Mobile Audio

Panasonic

Phoenix Gold (ask on specific models)

Pioneer (amplifiers and speakers)

Precision Power (PPI) (newer non-US made amplifiers)

RE Audio- newer stuff

Rockford Fosgate (lower series products)

SAS Bazooka (all products)

Sony Xplod

Vibe

Good

Alpine (amplifiers, Type-R speakers and subs)

Altec Lansing

Alumapro

Ample Audio

Ascendant

Audio Development

Avionixx

Boston Acoustics

Cadence

Cerwin Vega (subs)

Clarion (head units)

Clifford (alarms)

Cliff designs

Coustic

Crescendo Audio

Crossfire

Crystal

DC Audio

Directed (DEI)

Dynamat

Earthquake

Eaton

Helix

Hushmat

Illusion

Incriminater Audio

Infinity

JBL (amplifiers)

JVC Digifine

Kenwood Excelon (HU)

Kicker

Kinetik (batteries)

Lunar

Massive Audio

Memphis Audio

MTX (amplifiers)

Orion (newer products)

Phoenix Gold (some models)

Pioneer- HU's

Polk Audio

Powerbass

Rockford Fosgate (Power Series amp and subs)

Second Skin (deadner)

Skar Audio (owner/company seems to be very shadey/unethical)

Soundstream

SSA Audio

Stereo Integrity

USAcoustics

Viper/DEI (alarms)

Highest Quality

a/d/s

Adire

Alpine (head units, signal processors)

Arc Audio

Audax

Audio Control

Audison

Brax

Butler Audio

CD Technologies (CDT)

Diamond Audio (HEX)

Digital Designs (DD)

DLS

DynAudio

Eclipse (Fujitsu Ten)

Esoteric Audio

FI Audio

Focal

Gladen

Harrison Labs

Helix

Hertz

Hybrid Audio

Image Dynamics (ID)

JL Audio (W6v2, W6v3, W7. ZR components,Slash and HD series amps)

KEF Kar components

Kove

Luxman

McIntosh Laboratories

MMATS

Morel

Mosconi

Nakamichi (Older products)

Ohio Alternator

Orion (older products)

OZ Audio

Pioneer Premiere (head units)

Precision Power (PPI) (Art series amps, old)

Rainbow

Resonant Engineering (RE) Older Stuff

Rockford Fosgate (older 1980s and 1990s models)

Sinfoni

Streetwirez

Stinger

Sundown Audio

Treo

Tru tech

US Amps (older amps)

Wrangler Alternators

XS Power (batteries)

Xtant

Zapco

Zed Audio

*Funky PuP

 

[dsw1204]

I know this maybe a little bit irrelevant, but where would you have ranked Fujitsu Ten/Eclipse (had they still been in the aftermarket business)? I am a big old school Eclipse fan and was just wondering.

 

[murph 10+ year member]

Most recent list of good and bad car audio brands - CarAudioForum.com
We've broken this section into 4 categories:

1: Bad

2: Questionable

3: Good

4: Highest quality

Bad

Absolute

American HiFi (Rockwood)

American Pro

Audiovox

Automobile

Becker

Blackmore

Boschmann

Boss

Craig

DHD

Dual

Emerson

JDL

Jensen

Kenford

Kole

Kraco

Kronik

LA Sound

Legacy

MA Audio

Optimus (Radio Shack)

Pheonix Digital

Planet Audio (Boss, by any other name)

Power Acoustik

Profile

Pyle

Pyramid

Rockwood

Sound Storm

Sparkomatic

SPL Audio

Stetsom

Thump

Ultimate Sounds

Urban Audio

US Amps- the newer stuff

Visonik

Volfenhag

Questionable

Alphasonik

Autotek you do know their os amps where made by Zed

Audiobahn carpetbagger

Audiopipe

Blaupunkt lie

Aiwa

Crunch huh?

Elemental Designs (eD) poor build quality on some but definitely have some good products

Hifonics

Hollywood

Kenwood (amplifiers)

Lanzar Umm again do you know anything about their os gear?

Lightning Audio TC Sounds nuff said

Matsui

MB Quart os equipment use to be german made...

Nakamichi (newer products)

NVX Audio

Onyx Mobile Audio

Panasonic come on bro have you seen their tube heads?

Phoenix Gold (ask on specific models) only after the xenon, they now are high end

Pioneer (amplifiers and speakers)

Precision Power (PPI) (newer non-US made amplifiers)

RE Audio- newer stuff

Rockford Fosgate (lower series products)

SAS Bazooka (all products) hell no

Sony Xplod no

Vibe

Good

Alpine (amplifiers, Type-R speakers and subs)

Altec Lansing

Alumapro alumapro m16 is pretty high end bro

Ample Audio

Ascendant same as fi and fi is high end now?

Audio Development

Avionixx

Boston Acoustics they had plenty of high end gear as well

Cadence

Cerwin Vega (subs) meh strokers

Clarion (head units)

Clifford (alarms)

Cliff designs

Coustic

Crescendo Audio

Crossfire

Crystal if adire and oz are high end why isn't crystal?

DC Audio

Directed (DEI)

Dynamat

Earthquake mind explosion

Eaton

Helix high end

Hushmat

Illusion

Incriminater Audio same deal if fi and sundown are high end?

Infinity

JBL (amplifiers)

JVC Digifine

Kenwood Excelon (HU)

Kicker only a small portion should be listed as good

Kinetik (batteries) overpriced

Lunar

Massive Audio no

Memphis Audio a few things belle

MTX (amplifiers)

Orion (newer products)

Phoenix Gold (some models) os amps are high end new gear is high end

Pioneer- HU's

Polk Audio no

Powerbass budget at best

Rockford Fosgate (Power Series amp and subs)

Second Skin (deadner)

Skar Audio (owner/company seems to be very shadey/unethical) same deal

Soundstream new stuff meh human reign amp high end

SSA Audio same thing

Stereo Integrity plenty of great stuff

USAcoustics

Viper/DEI (alarms) meh

Highest Quality

a/d/s

Adire

Alpine (head units, signal processors)

Arc Audio

Audax

Audio Control

Audison

Brax

Butler Audio

CD Technologies (CDT)

Diamond Audio (HEX)

Digital Designs (DD)

DLS

DynAudio

Eclipse (Fujitsu Ten)

Esoteric Audio

FI Audio

Focal

Gladen

Harrison Labs

Helix

Hertz

Hybrid Audio

Image Dynamics (ID)

JL Audio (W6v2, W6v3, W7. ZR components,Slash and HD series amps)

KEF Kar components

Kove

Luxman

McIntosh Laboratories

MMATS

Morel

Mosconi

Nakamichi (Older products)

Ohio Alternator

Orion (older products)

OZ Audio

Pioneer Premiere (head units)

Precision Power (PPI) (Art series amps, old)

Rainbow

Resonant Engineering (RE) Older Stuff

Rockford Fosgate (older 1980s and 1990s models)

Sinfoni

Streetwirez

Stinger

Sundown Audio

Treo

Tru tech

US Amps (older amps)

Wrangler Alternators

XS Power (batteries)

Xtant

Zapco

Zed Audio

*Funky PuP

It's important to have more depth into each brand before making lists like this. Or in general these lists are stupid. Why make a list of whats "high end" and whats garbage.

 

[The Camry]

Its a list put together by abunch of people on anotther forum. lots of input but i understand what you mean. General answers are better than zero answers.

 

[dsw1204]

I kind of like these lists. It is helping me check out some of the more reputable companies and keeping me away from the lesser ones.

 

[oldskool79]

That's ridiculous! Why would anybody "need" a system that puts out that much SPL? I guess it's all about taste. I may be in the minority on here, but I like SQ to go along with a high SPL. I like to actually hear the music (all of it), as well as feel really tight low-end bass. Musicality is where it's at for me. Geesh!

 

[big scott]

That's ridiculous! Why would anybody "need" a system that puts out that much SPL? I guess it's all about taste. I may be in the minority on here, but I like SQ to go along with a high SPL. I like to actually hear the music (all of it), as well as feel really tight low-end bass. Musicality is where it's at for me. Geesh!

and your point is????

not everybody is like you. just because you dont like it does not mean others dont like it.

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

That's ridiculous! Why would anybody "need" a system that puts out that much SPL? I guess it's all about taste. I may be in the minority on here, but I like SQ to go along with a high SPL. I like to actually hear the music (all of it), as well as feel really tight low-end bass. Musicality is where it's at for me. Geesh!

These high end SPL setups can sound very good. Very musical. They just are not cheap and you can't use low end equipment.