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<blockquote data-quote="denim" data-source="post: 7587860" data-attributes="member: 545441"><p><strong>I have noticed one thing that is very evident as an observation in terms of how the money is spent, not at all a thing of taking one side or the other. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p></p><p><strong>In the current market of internet car audio, people will so easily go the cheaper route on amplifiers, but will save up for very expensive sub woofers. The point I am making here is the majority of inexperienced users are so worried about the pissing contest of boasting how many watts they have installed, and put very little effort into the actual install. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p></p><p><strong>More power is rarely the best route. To effectively use it, it costs much more money then grabbing a cheaply built amplifier that has a sticker that claims 47giggawatts on it. The electrical is almost always overlooked, signal voltage is neglected, refining and testing different enclosures for sub woofers usually get the least amount of effort, sound deadening does not get the attention it should and lastly the self planning and research is much more then going online and making a topic of having a gaggle of people whom you have never met tell you what you should buy.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p></p><p><strong>In no way am I saying buy a Zapco C2k 9.0 over a Audioque 2200, not at all, but the idea of more power is not always the answer, especially in these times of budgets for an non-essential thing like car audio upgrades not being what they used to. Use the same money that would go towards a fairly cheap big wattage amplifier, and put 1/2 towards sound deadening and 1/2 towards a used higher quality amp of lower power. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Just trying to get people to entertain the idea of thinking more efficiently, as in the end that is the best way. </strong>//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif<strong> </strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="denim, post: 7587860, member: 545441"] [B]I have noticed one thing that is very evident as an observation in terms of how the money is spent, not at all a thing of taking one side or the other. [/B] [B] [/B] [B]In the current market of internet car audio, people will so easily go the cheaper route on amplifiers, but will save up for very expensive sub woofers. The point I am making here is the majority of inexperienced users are so worried about the pissing contest of boasting how many watts they have installed, and put very little effort into the actual install. [/B] [B] [/B] [B]More power is rarely the best route. To effectively use it, it costs much more money then grabbing a cheaply built amplifier that has a sticker that claims 47giggawatts on it. The electrical is almost always overlooked, signal voltage is neglected, refining and testing different enclosures for sub woofers usually get the least amount of effort, sound deadening does not get the attention it should and lastly the self planning and research is much more then going online and making a topic of having a gaggle of people whom you have never met tell you what you should buy.[/B] [B] [/B] [B]In no way am I saying buy a Zapco C2k 9.0 over a Audioque 2200, not at all, but the idea of more power is not always the answer, especially in these times of budgets for an non-essential thing like car audio upgrades not being what they used to. Use the same money that would go towards a fairly cheap big wattage amplifier, and put 1/2 towards sound deadening and 1/2 towards a used higher quality amp of lower power. [/B] [B] [/B] [B]Just trying to get people to entertain the idea of thinking more efficiently, as in the end that is the best way. [/B][IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG][B] [/B] [/QUOTE]
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