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<blockquote data-quote="audiolife" data-source="post: 962020" data-attributes="member: 541383">not saying it cant but the actual ones that actually pull it off are less than you might think. alot of the &quot;good&quot; cars only exibit a few of the qualites that the others have. anymore though it isnt that tough to be looked at as a top sq guy. (not insulting the old timers here) but over the last year or 2 the # of cars at the shows are very small. in fact in 97 at 2 national events i had almost as many cars in my class as they had at svr as a total. heck i coulda took my truck to tennesee at the truck jam and won a&nbsp; usac x2 point&nbsp; trophy&nbsp; by default lol. all i can really say is alot of guys that compete try and set the bar higher and or find their nitch. outside of a couple classes in any sq contest there really isnt too much there anymore. outside of class d amps, high x max subs and painted fiberglass VERY little has changed. things were going digital 10 yrs ago , people had walls of subs, horns, 2 way and 3 way speaker sets, center channel speakers... and if you really believe year in and year out that they (the manufacturers) make vast strides in speaker sound reproduction (better speakers and amps) you fall for alot of marketing scams. after all what i say, believe and know doesnt keep masses of people buying new equipment year in and year out thinking each progressive&nbsp; year is the latest and greatest.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gifwell i forgot one thing there dts but itll be a cold day in hell for me to go into that lol it wont be by choice. it will be by a forced format change when cds become obsuleeeeeeeete.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="audiolife, post: 962020, member: 541383"] not saying it cant but the actual ones that actually pull it off are less than you might think. alot of the "good" cars only exibit a few of the qualites that the others have. anymore though it isnt that tough to be looked at as a top sq guy. (not insulting the old timers here) but over the last year or 2 the # of cars at the shows are very small. in fact in 97 at 2 national events i had almost as many cars in my class as they had at svr as a total. heck i coulda took my truck to tennesee at the truck jam and won a usac x2 point trophy by default lol. all i can really say is alot of guys that compete try and set the bar higher and or find their nitch. outside of a couple classes in any sq contest there really isnt too much there anymore. outside of class d amps, high x max subs and painted fiberglass VERY little has changed. things were going digital 10 yrs ago , people had walls of subs, horns, 2 way and 3 way speaker sets, center channel speakers... and if you really believe year in and year out that they (the manufacturers) make vast strides in speaker sound reproduction (better speakers and amps) you fall for alot of marketing scams. after all what i say, believe and know doesnt keep masses of people buying new equipment year in and year out thinking each progressive year is the latest and greatest.[IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] well i forgot one thing there dts but itll be a cold day in hell for me to go into that lol it wont be by choice. it will be by a forced format change when cds become obsuleeeeeeeete. [/QUOTE]

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