Is Car Audio Alive and Well?

[dB-r 10+ year member]

There is 1 SAE-1000D availible with 7-10 day wait, you buy it and we will order it from Sundown and when it gets here (in 3-4 bus days usually) we will fix it and ship it to you. But no right now the only thing we have "in stock" is a SAX-100.2. There are 4 SAZ-3000D's avail in 7-10 days also. Things are so slow or we would have purchased them and had them here in stock right now. Was all good in October, but since the election not much sales. Either everyone spent their money on campaign contributions or Halloween or maybe now since the results of the election have been done everyone is using all their extra money to stock up on guns? I don't know I saw that on the news. Gun sales are VERY much on the up right now while everything else has slumped. Too bad dB-r doesn't sell guns....

 

[simpsonbuck 10+ year member]

I can get the money tomm. around 11pm central when the direct deposit fairy visits.

I spent all my money on scratch off lotto tickets fyi Gotta plan for the future!

 

[Saint211 10+ year member]

Thats true Im probably skipping my batt bank and second amp right now to go get another AK before Obama takes that from us.

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

Email me tommorow, as I will be out of town for part of Fri-Sun. I will have my laptop and internet access with me though so I can still process orders and communicate with customers, so even if you wait till Friday I can still get you taken care of, just may not be an "instant" response.

You would think with Gas prices being below $2.00 per gallon right now people would have extra funds for Car Audio stuff, but maybe not, Christmas is right around the corner now.... Maybe people are just saving for Christmas gifts. Hard to believe the year is almost over already...

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

I already have my guns but I could always use a few more... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[simpsonbuck 10+ year member]

Ugh....the older you get the faster it goes.

Life is so **** special and we piss it away like cheap beer....oh well. This is the reason I care less about my long term hearing

I'll shoot you a message this Thursday.....thanks.

 

[simpsonbuck 10+ year member]

I already have my guns but I could always use a few more... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

All I need is my XD.....and maybe a Howitzer just to spice things up.

 

[ClubKnowledge 10+ year member]

You all are probably right about the money just not being there for the "Play Toys" as much as before.

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

It has slowed, but hope things will return to normal soon.

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

Yep, I think that's really what it is. Money just isn't right to do anything with the "systems" right now. People are getting by, getting ready to visit with family for the holidays etc.... They will soon be back on their Car Audio when all the other stuff is over with. I imagine car audio sales might be good right before and after Christmas if the gas prices can stay down long enough for people to recover....

I want to do some stuff with own vehicle but I am limited on time right now (lots of repairs in the shop) and money is tight too, customers asking me to "hold off" on repairing their amps because they don't have the money right now...

As for the guns sales being so good, I know if I could I would add the following to my Christmas wish list, a box of hand grenades, an RPG and an unmanned spy plane would be nice to have around.... things may get ugly if these ****ed terrorists don't chill out, seems like they don't like Obama any better than they liked Bush, they are still blowing up shit everyday.....

 

[dragnix 5,000+ posts]

Yep, I think that's really what it is. Money just isn't right to do anything with the "systems" right now. People are getting by, getting ready to visit with family for the holidays etc.... They will soon be back on their Car Audio when all the other stuff is over with. I imagine car audio sales might be good right before and after Christmas if the gas prices can stay down long enough for people to recover....
I want to do some stuff with own vehicle but I am limited on time right now (lots of repairs in the shop) and money is tight too, customers asking me to "hold off" on repairing their amps because they don't have the money right now...

As for the guns sales being so good, I know if I could I would add the following to my Christmas wish list, a box of hand grenades, an RPG and an unmanned spy plane would be nice to have around.... things may get ugly if these ****ed terrorists don't chill out, seems like they don't like Obama any better than they liked Bush, they are still blowing up shit everyday.....

they've been blowing shit up everyday, regardless of who's president. Only way to stop them is be their allies, but even then...

 

[simpsonbuck 10+ year member]

The time for Israel to turn them into dust is near approaching. It is payback for the Babylonians razing Israel.

It is all in your history book called the Bible.

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

Being the very start of all IC and semi I would say that the economy is only to blame for about 10% or so. At least from a supplier stand point (that is what we are seeing).

I think its many things. One of the biggest is that quality has gotten so much better. Yes, most things are built in China, and this allows for cheaper costs. But you have people like Sundown and SI traveling and talking with these build houses and getting a quality product. So things are better than they were and cheaper. Rather than settling for the lower power or step down, we are buying exactly what we want and for the most part, people are content.

I think we are hitting a point where watts are not going to be as important as features. We saw this in the CPU segment not too long ago. The race for the most GHZ was non-stop. Finally consumers got to a point where they didn't care. We started looking at things like bus speed, cache, cores, etc.

I hope that the audio industry follows this. JL has in some regards with the amps they make running power at all ohms, but there is more out there to do.

Eh, Just my .02 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

Yeah, some of the china stuff isn't that bad. You just have to push them to produce quality, it will always be cheaper there because labor is cheaper. The Sundown amps that are made in China are not that bad. And I think personally, the Maxxsonics Brutus and some of the other smaller Maxxsonics amps (but not all of them) that are made in China are top-notch, just as good of quality as the Korean made amps of their equivalent size. So the product being "Made in China" doesn't mean the quality isn't good, some are some aren't. Best way to gauge it is ask around to find out who is "happy" with their "Made in China" amp, alot of people are.

As far as features vs ? I am not sure. I think most amplifiers at least, since I don't deal with head units or any other components, just amplifiers, most amplifiers features suit the needs of the consumer already. People are simply price vs performance vs durability on amplifiers and I think that's always the way it will be with amplifiers.

 

[natisfynest 10+ year member]

i dont think its people dont have the money right now but more people are worried about what tomorrow is gonna bring with all these places cutting jobs and shit people are putting there money away incase they dont have a job next week or what not once job stability comes back people spending money will follow