how to tell if ure a caraudio junkie?

[atoz350 10+ year member]

-you have a head unit installed in a new car 5 minutes after you buy it.

Sounds like my fiance'

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

not sure if its a repost or not, but still...
-at the slightest sound of bass you run to try and find out where its coming from.

-you spend more time looking at pictures of subs than you do **** =)

-you are saving change because someday you'll be able to buy an amp with it.

-you buy a perfectly good van/car/suv only to turn it into a 2seater.

-your system weighs almost as much as your car

-you play your system in the driveway and run inside to see whats falling off the walls.

-you have 6 or more subs laying around that are not in use, nor will ever see power.

-when people talk it sounds like charley brown "wuh wuh wuh"

-you laugh when your mirrors fall off

-you laugh when people say "i can't breath in this thing! turn it down!"

-you find it interesting how bass can make your eyes roll around in your head.

-"what" is the most used word in your vocabulary

-you've plugged 4 or more perfectly good subs into the wall because its loud.. hehe

-you've attemped to sell anything and everything you own to buy more equipment.

-you'd rather buy a cheaper car, so you'll hvae more money for a system.

-have 1/0 or bigger wire in your car AND have a use for it.

-ever considered buying huge quantities of subs just to see what it might do.

-lowered a car with concrete

-Extreme class....says enough.

-wanted to see if you could fit a whale in your trunk for those low lows.

-your full attention is given to passing trains because of the bass they produce

-same applies to helicopters

-you go through bass withdrawls

-you beg friends w/ systems to drive b/c you can't afford one. lol. (common angst!!)

-you have a dedicated "system fund"

-When you are willing to sacrifice hundreds of dollars worth of equipment by maxxing

everything out to get yourself an extra 1/10th of a dB to take home a first place trophy.

-When you think the smell of voice coils burning up is cool.

-If you've actually been pissed off at yourself for days for cutting your box .05^ft3 smaller than what you wanted it at.

-If you have a large ported box with a large port.

-If you insist on using 8 gauge power wire or 10 gauge speaker wire for your subs.

-If you think that the only mirror you actually need to see out of is your drivers side.

-If you've ever tossed out a spare tire to glass the tire well for extra airspace.

-You think the biggest rivalry since the Crips and Bloods is SQ guys and SPL guys.

-You have a "cop switch" on your amps.

-You would miss your wifes b-day to drive 200 miles to an SPL competition.

-You know who Alma Gates is, and not just heard of her.

-You could give a crap how your SQ is.

-when you think people driving by at 2am bumping is soothing to your sleep

-when you listen to bass songs with headphones on your computer

-when you attempt to build an abc box =)

-when you start doing school papers on "what bass is", "sound ordinances", and "did you hear a boom?"

-if you've ever wondered if it were possible to turn the SETI dish into a subwoofer

-you try to find the resonant frequency of earth, and try to shake it =)

-1 in 2 stories you tell consists in some way of car audio

-you have a huge ported box sitting in your garage tuned to 60hz, for special occasions

-you have a huge ported box sitting in your car tuned to 33hz, for "special" occasions

-you have more subwoofers than fingers

-anything less than 1kwatt per sub is "funny" or "pointless"

-your daily driver exceeds 150db with music

-you've ever farted in the sub opening of a box and wondered if it could be tuned. (lol. yes it does work)

-you enjoy the smell of silicone or resin

-you can strip 1/0 wire with your teeth

-you've driven past your own house 3 times because this new song's "got bass!"

-you've ever been up past 3am putting a system together (yes this includes testing. lol)

-your cars carpeting looks like swiss cheese

-you have enough wire sitting in boxes to install 3more systems

-you have more than 3 spl comp shirts

-you know how to recone subs, and do this to your own regularly =)

-your system budget exceeds your annual income

-you've given your 2yr old child a 15" 50lb sub for xmas

-you've ever tried to combine the baskets and magnets of 2 subs to make one better one.

-you have 3sets of test tones on computer and/or on cd

-you think "feel the bass" and "40cycles" are actual music.

-If you spend more time at the local stereo shop than you do at work.

-If you put off studying for finals to build a new enclosure.

-If you think hearing aids are going to be an excellent investment in 5-10 years.

-You complain because 145dB with one 12 isn't enough.

-You drive to a parklot, park towards the back and beat the hell outta your system, just for the hell of it.

-You've had the cops called to house more than twice in one week.

-You get pissed because none of your friends understand your obsession.

-If you've told a cop: "I didn't have my system turned up ENOUGH to be heard from

100ft"....by the way, it didn't work

-You've blown every home audio subwoofer you have by putting it in your car to see how loud it is.

-If you've found an old box makes a nice coffee table.

-Your new box design bothers you more than anything else.

"Car Audio, my Anti-Drug"...lol, we're to broke to buy drugs.

-You constanly get girls to get on your trunk to see if they can get off.

-you've tried to make pop cans explode using just bass

-your eyes know how to adjust to blurred mirror vision

-you are so used to breathing in a 150db environment that you have a hard time breathing outside your car.

-you went out and tried the baloon trick 30seconds after you read the post.

-you want to grow a mullet just so your hair can get fluffed by the "Beast"

-you spend more time on termpro than you do at work.. (uhoh)

-you go to best buy just because you don't have to pay to abuse that equipment

-you go to best buy just to mess with the heads of the really smart people that work there. (note my sarcasm)

-you want to make earmuffs shaped like subs.

-you've ever turned an entire room in your house into an enclosure

-you have a need for wide angle mirrors =)

-you spend as much time as i do thinking of stupid things like this

-you wake up in the middle of the night with ideas of an enclosure

-your child's middle name is Vega or something car audio related

-as a child you took apart your parents home audio speakers. (so they had to replace a few sets since i was 8)

-your system weighs more than your car

-when "the usual" at home depot is ten sheets of MDF

-when you buy 7/64" drill bits by the dozen and liquid nails by the gallon

-you own/drive a mini-van and you dont have kids

-you keep earmuffs and earplugs inside your glove compartment

-your cars electrical system can start a bus or tractor

-the only math you use is how to figure out impedances and box/port dimensions

-your post count on termpro is way higher than you know it should be

-You have an autographed picture of Wayne Harris in your wallet.

-You turn up your system and walk away from your vehicle just to see how loud it really is!

-People pull over for you at night because your headlights flash like a patrol car.

-Noise ordinance violations are a weekend ritual.

-You have a front row seat at db Drag Racing.

-Your EQ setting looks like a flock of geese.

-First name Alma ...Last name Gates!

-Your dream car is an astro Van!

-Alternator whine ... who cares!!

-u stick ur head into a slot port at full blast just to wind up pulling ur head out and saying "CoOOooOL!!!" and it doesnt phase u

-u dont care how bad ur car rattles (maybe cuz u cant hear it on the inside

-u buy power wire in spools

-uve blown more subs then miles u have on ur 20 year old van

-rms means the "minum power handleing"

-u have actually felt a sub smack u in the head at 20mm of xmax

-instead of buying oil for ur cars oil change u buy something like rca wires or carpeting just cuz u have the money

-u have blown more fuses then u could count

-u have dreams about 6 beasts in a giant 60 cubic foot wall (droooooool!)

- u have actually "borrowed" subs then blowwn them oooops!

-You can knock stuff off of shelves with 1 sub

-You can blow a house circuit with 1 amp & 1 sub

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[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

-If you think that the only mirror you actually need to see out of is your drivers side.

haha thats how my car is. Rear view fell off a long time ago

 

[Canaan 10+ year member]

-4 + 4 = 2; 2 + 2 = 1; 1 + 1 = HCCA

My favorite one^^^

But now days, its kinda out dated...the new one should be:

-4 + 4 = 2; 2 + 2 = 1; 1 + 1 = HCCA; 1/2+1/2=2 IA20.1's strapped //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Punk In Drublic 10+ year member]

I read them all //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[systemJLx 10+ year member]

dam. i started reading that shit, and then i scrolled down a lil bit and im like hell no.. i aint readin all that

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

i must be a junkie because i thought my wife was in labor and i was looking for the plug to my laptop so i could surf ca.com while we were at the hospital

 

[DDeitz 10+ year member]

^^atleast it wasnt to find out what freq she peaked at