I would love to hear an SQ setup!

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

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SQ systems are imaged, have a balance of the entire audio spectrum. I still have heard very few SQ systems that compare to a high end home system though.

you'd have to pay out the *** like you would do w/ a high end home audio setup.

not really fair to compare home and car audio anyhow...

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

also a lot of what is "sq" is set up and tuning. All but your competition fart box spl woofers can be used in a sq system. SQ is not $1500 4 channel amplifiers it is how it is used. I have heard many a system built with standard over the counter name brand gear SMOKE the artsy fartsy high dollar gear. 31 band eqs, t/a, crossovers and so forth don't matter much if you do not know how to use it. High end speakers do not matter if they are installed wrong or tuned wrong. Biggest difference between a street beater and an SQ car is BALANCE between front stage and sub. Then after that you gradually split hairs.

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i agree w/ the large bold part.

 

[Cpyder 10+ year member]

also a lot of what is "sq" is set up and tuning. All but your competition fart box spl woofers can be used in a sq system. SQ is not $1500 4 channel amplifiers it is how it is used. I have heard many a system built with standard over the counter name brand gear SMOKE the artsy fartsy high dollar gear. 31 band eqs, t/a, crossovers and so forth don't matter much if you do not know how to use it. High end speakers do not matter if they are installed wrong or tuned wrong. Biggest difference between a street beater and an SQ car is BALANCE between front stage and sub. Then after that you gradually split hairs.

quite accurate. You can't do it with absolute crap though. Your speakers need to be able to reproduce the entire frequency spectrum. And tuning can't always fix that.

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

i wonder what qualifies a setup to be considered an SQ setup...?

A setup that doesn't get loud and doesn't have much subbass and doesn't need a bajillion watts.

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

you'd have to pay out the *** like you would do w/ a high end home audio setup.
not really fair to compare home and car audio anyhow...

Aston Martin Vanquish has a Linn system that is supposed to be very comparable to home theater. But for the most part, I totally agree with you.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

quite accurate. You can't do it with absolute crap though. Your speakers need to be able to reproduce the entire frequency spectrum. And tuning can't always fix that.

absolute crap is a state of mind...I have heard a full blown Pyrimid crossover, speakers amps and subwoofer system sound better than a tricked out mb quart system powered by amps that costs more than all the gear in the pyrimid car. If you know what you are working with and know how to set it up is about 90% of the battle...

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

im still trying to get mine to sound like a mediocre home audio system:crap:

Good luck. Two very different environments.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

you'd have to pay out the *** like you would do w/ a high end home audio setup.
not really fair to compare home and car audio anyhow...

What qualifies as a stellar home audio set up?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif I have sold high end speakers and tube amps, hell even a tube cd player and pre amp. My fav sounding system to music is/was a wimpy set of 550 dollar at full retail System Audio towers and an 8" Definitive technologies powered sub. Sounded better to me than the $1800.00 powered Boston towers and better to me than the speaker sets we sold that looked like they came from some dude in western Europe that failed geometry. I like B&W speakers but you go from 650 dollar sets to 18,000 dollar sets I realllllllllllllllly do not see the point. Sure it sounds better but when I worked around that stuff for a couple years and I keep going back to that System Audio set with the cheap little Def sub on a generic Denon STEREO reciver on a Sony ES cd player what does that say? That whole set up cost less than a "Sting Ray" tube amp! My fav home theater set up though is somewhere around Van Wert Ohio. All it is is some Paradigms in the wall and 4 15" IB loaded subs in the wall across the bottom of the floor. Maybe $12,000 in equipment. You might say that is weak but my father works on MANY houses that cost $700k-2 million bucks in Indiana and MANY of those have sound systems that cost more than an average house. They look NEATO but they really do not sound all that spectacular. A few of those had to have some $30k towers in them. Best ones of that bunch were some old Klipsch horns and they were nowhere near $10k. Maybe 5,000 IIRC. Hell one guy I auditioned his weirdo speakers used $2000 in real silver speaker wire too hook up a set of towers. It was nice all powered of tube gear but at the time I like my ID horn set up better in my Firebird....Listening to music I knew I felt I had more detail LOL. I would venture to say he had 10K in tube gear, a $9k set of towers and @least 3k in wire and interconnects PLUS he had the room done up in funky drywall to improve the sound (shop I worked at didn't sell that). It was nice but so much of it left me shaking my head.

Long ramble I know but key point is NOT everyone will agree that xxxx will absolutely sound better than yyyy. One man's garbage can be anothers treasure.