Car Audio Facts.

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Install is more important than equipment.

A pleasing sound does not equate to SQ.

BOSE is a four letter word.

If you can't measure a difference between two componenets, you can't hear one either.

Running your power wire with your signal wire will not cause noise.

Your power delivery is only as good as your ground path.

Alternator whine is a ground problem (usually the HU).

You can fuse your power wire according to the needs of the amp or the size of the wire.

Speakers do not need an amp capable of delivering the RMS rating of the speaker to sound good. That goes for subs, too.

JL is not overpriced.

SQL is a database architecture not an audio term.

Ported is not always louder or less accurate than sealed.

There is no "best" anything.

Anyone who makes a post asking "Whats' the best..." is a noob.

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

Eminence arrays have excellent SQ and imaging.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Running RCA's by power wire can cause noise. I can move my rcas closer to my power wire, and hear the noise come on the speakers. But then again, my car has had the wackiest noise problem I've ever seen.

 

[NeverEnuffBass 10+ year member]

Running your power wire with your signal wire will not cause noise.

Have to disagree with u on that.

Heres 2 more to add.

1. The thin wire attached to some prefab RCAs is NOT for remote turn on.

2. Avoid multiple ground paths when grounding audio equipment to prevent a ground loop.

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

1.Install is more important than equipment.

2.Your power delivery is only as good as your ground path.

3.You can fuse your power wire according to the needs of the amp or the size of the wire.

4.Speakers do not need an amp capable of delivering the RMS rating of the speaker to sound good. That goes for subs, too.

5.Ported is not always louder or less accurate than sealed.

6, Garbage in garbage out

7, You can never blow a sub with to little power.(but clipping t signal may damage it)

8 You can never have to big of wire.9

9, Adding subs or adding power will NOT guarantee a rise in SPL

10, SQ is better than spl always.

11. Avoid multiple ground paths when grounding audio equipment to prevent a ground loop.

if you guys can copy paste it would save me doing it

 

[ricoshay 10+ year member]

how hard your system hits its not determined by how much your trunk rattles

you CAN use only 1 voice coil on a DVC sub,it only lowers the power rating by 1/2

 

[bloodhound50 10+ year member]

It's not how loud it is, but how good it sounds. SQ is always the way 2 go IMO.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

you CAN use only 1 voice coil on a DVC sub,it only lowers the power rating by 1/2

It also changes all the T/S parameters.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Have to disagree with u on that.

If you are getting noise by having your AC signal near a DC wire then you have other problems somewhere else in the car. DC cannot induce noise in AC. Also every bit of current and more that flows through your power wire also flows through the chassis of the car if you use a chassis ground. If you are not getting noise witht he signal wires near the chassis, then you've proven my point.

1. The thin wire attached to some prefab RCAs is NOT for remote turn on.

Actually, sometimes it is.

 

[jmoreno150 10+ year member]

keep signal leads away from power leads.

 

[sdmtnbiker420 10+ year member]

Do it right or don't so it at all!

 

[Tonyguy 10+ year member]

Cheap equipment isn't good, and good equipment isn't cheap:fyi:

 

[Ku-sama]

a 18" Audiobahn is trash. go Fi instead

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

Cheap equipment isn't good, and good equipment isn't cheap:fyi:

unless you get a deal... still love that 75x2 zapco ref I got for $125 shipped...

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

keep signal leads away from power leads.

are you just trying to be an idiot?