Remember back in the day?

[Aurorav8 10+ year member]

My first system was about 9 years ago. Had a pioneer detachable face, old school 12" Kicker Comp, some Alpine 3.5's up front, Alpine 4 x 10's in the rear, ran the fronts and rears off the old Black PPI art series amp, and ran the Kicker off the old White PPI art series.

 

[BigBoomer 10+ year member]

I ran down to walmart and got me some 6.5'' sub of unknow brand... 100w total power!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif with a roadgear 80w amp to go with it... still got ll that... and Pioneer hu and 6x9s for the back....

now im trying to hook that up in my room...(not the hu and 6x9s tho)

now i got thos mtx thunder 6000 12's with the yall-think-its-puny-but-i-like-it kenwood kac629s 350w amp... hey, it gets the job done..

 

[60_cent 10+ year member]

Originally posted by Aurorav8 My first system was about 9 years ago. Had a pioneer detachable face, old school 12" Kicker Comp, some Alpine 3.5's up front, Alpine 4 x 10's in the rear, ran the fronts and rears off the old Black PPI art series amp, and ran the Kicker off the old White PPI art series.

PPI and Kicker were some of the best names in the business 10-15 years ago. My favorites back then were Lanzar, Fosgate, and Orion. The Punch 60 and 100 were the **** along with the hcca225 which you can still get from Orion.

 

[violator5spd 10+ year member]

Jensen 500 and 2 MTX Thunder 4000's. The amp really wasn't bad, and the subs were even better. However, I blew the amp after half a year went by. 4000's are some badass subs for the price.

 

[bshime45 10+ year member]

my first setup which is basically right now is in the sig, i don't think it's too bad for my first one...

 

[Nickfireblazer 10+ year member]

My first system...Two Kenwood 300 watt subs in separate ported enclosures, a 250 watt Road Gear amp, and a JVC CD Player. **** how times have changed.

 

[geolemon 10+ year member]

Originally posted by maylar I got into car audio in umm... 1968 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

You kids are too young to know what a reverb is, right?

Heck no, I've got a mono reverb with a little chrome knob... looks just like an amp reverb!Cool stuff...

OK, it was my father's..

But I got into car audio around 1991 or 1992, same time I bought my first car at the ripe age of 17.. a 1973 VW Beetle (that's still in my garage, been customizing it - disassembled - for like 8 years.. hehe

Like every hobby I obsess into, I picked up every single copy of any car audio mag possible that I passed by.. and at that time there were only three: Auto Sound and Security, Car Stereo Review, and Car Audio and Electronics. I've got boxes, I never threw one out. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

My first systems were quite funny, I didn't know anything, and didn't have enough cash to keep skateboard decks under my feet, much less put together a system into a car that I could hardly afford...

But there it was...

"SALE OF THE CENTURY!!!! A travelling flea market coming SOON to a convention center near you! Pullout Head Units for $19! 1000 watt amplifiers for $45! 12" subwoofers for $19! Kenwood, JVC, Pioneer, Alpine, Orion and more!"

..hehe.. most of it fell into the "and more" category...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

At any rate, picked up a Mobile Authority amp that was about the size of a pack of cigarettes for like $20... it claimed it was 20x2 (so I can imagine what it really was!)...

And I don't even remember, I got some 8" box with piezo tweets in it.. and a handle on top!

My first real subs though were MTX Road Thunder II's... local shop had them here for cheap, like two 10's for $40 or something. And they were quite good, for the money.

And VW Beetles get **** loud with hardly having squat in there, so it was good.

At least for back then.

"Hmm wait... yep, I think I feel the seat vibrating a little! Woohoo! Man have I got some bass!":laugh:

 

[sw1ft 10+ year member]

just ordered my first system - panasonic cq-dfx983u, jbl 600.1, kicker 12" sl7

 

[n0ftInc 10+ year member]

I have about 5 months to conjure up a system.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Wish me luck..

 

[95SC2 10+ year member]

my first two systems where ****:

1) 1996 i had a kenwood tape deck and a 10" bazooka tube. I thought it was the **** till

some kid with a 12" killed me at a stop light.

2) Like two months later i got 2 mtx4000 12" in a bandbass box, running off a little mtx rt2200. god it sounded like ****. bandpass= yuck

finally i found this site and learned a few things, got a new car and put a nice little sq system in it. Thank god for this site though, who knows what i might have done next:banghead: