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<blockquote data-quote="Nerdy1980s" data-source="post: 8746352" data-attributes="member: 683073">Hello everybody. I&#039;m new obviously.I&#039;m a bit of an audiophile, but not in car audio. I was more of an audiophile about 10 years ago when I was building my own home theater set up. So I&#039;m rusty at best.Anyway, I always thought my car, a 2013 Chevy Impala, had decent speakers. (I think they&#039;re Bose, but not sure). And compared to my last vehicle, from 1998, it was a step up.When I say decent, I mean the speakers don&#039;t start sounding really bad at the highest volume on the car, like the car I had from 1998. -I can&#039;t remember the make/model of it, since it was given to me a few months earlier after my even older car died, and I only drove it long enough to find a newer (used) car at a price I could afford at the time.Of course, occasionally, a pickup truck would pass by my house, and rumble the neighborhood, but outside of that,&nbsp; I never thought about car audio. (And even then I was thinking it had to be a teenager.)As you can tell by my username, I&#039;m no spring chicken.Getting to the point: I was riding with a friend who had a just bought a used luxury car, built in 2004. (For $6000, less than 55k miles), It had all sorts of nice features I didn&#039;t know even existed in 2004. Bottom line: I was floored about how good the speakers sounded. I immediately realized the speakers on my car were total junk.NOTE: I&#039;ve always thought Bose was terrible anyway. In home theater audio, Bose is the stain on the bottom of the shoes of other, better brands.So here I am, trying to educate myself about car audio, so I can be more savvy when I talk to a car audio shop. BTW: I had a cousin that tried to install his own car audio, about 20 years ago, and didn&#039;t do it right and burned his car to a smouldering hulk.Not sure of my budget, but I&#039;d expect, with labor, between $500 and $700 just to replace the stock speakers with some really good speakers. I can&#039;t afford to have everthing changed at once. Plus I&#039;m undecided about a sub-woofer, and I don&#039;t have a reason to change the stereo yet. I would get a new stereo if I got a sub-woofer installed. Actually, I might bump that budget up some, I&#039;ll need to have an amplifier installed also. I&#039;ll have to ask the car audio guy about that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nerdy1980s, post: 8746352, member: 683073"] Hello everybody. I'm new obviously. I'm a bit of an audiophile, but not in car audio. I was more of an audiophile about 10 years ago when I was building my own home theater set up. So I'm rusty at best. Anyway, I always thought my car, a 2013 Chevy Impala, had decent speakers. (I think they're Bose, but not sure). And compared to my last vehicle, from 1998, it was a step up. When I say decent, I mean the speakers don't start sounding really bad at the highest volume on the car, like the car I had from 1998. -I can't remember the make/model of it, since it was given to me a few months earlier after my even older car died, and I only drove it long enough to find a newer (used) car at a price I could afford at the time. Of course, occasionally, a pickup truck would pass by my house, and rumble the neighborhood, but outside of that, I never thought about car audio. (And even then I was thinking it had to be a teenager.) As you can tell by my username, I'm no spring chicken. Getting to the point: I was riding with a friend who had a just bought a used luxury car, built in 2004. (For $6000, less than 55k miles), It had all sorts of nice features I didn't know even existed in 2004. Bottom line: I was floored about how good the speakers sounded. I immediately realized the speakers on my car were total junk. NOTE: I've always thought Bose was terrible anyway. In home theater audio, Bose is the stain on the bottom of the shoes of other, better brands. So here I am, trying to educate myself about car audio, so I can be more savvy when I talk to a car audio shop. BTW: I had a cousin that tried to install his own car audio, about 20 years ago, and didn't do it right and burned his car to a smouldering hulk. Not sure of my budget, but I'd expect, with labor, between $500 and $700 just to replace the stock speakers with some really good speakers. I can't afford to have everthing changed at once. Plus I'm undecided about a sub-woofer, and I don't have a reason to change the stereo yet. I would get a new stereo if I got a sub-woofer installed. Actually, I might bump that budget up some, I'll need to have an amplifier installed also. I'll have to ask the car audio guy about that. [/QUOTE]

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