who have never upgraded their system?

[Tone415 10+ year member]

lies.

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[ejschultz 10+ year member]

I've upgraded many times in the last 5 or so years. I'm planning on not doing anything for a while after I get my new box. I just completely did my electrical (for the second time in a year), put in a new front stage, and got a new head unit. I say I'll be done after this for a while, but who knows when I'll get the itch to upgrade again.

 

[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

ive had 4 different sub and amp but HU and speakers have stayed the same within 2 years.

 

[viperrgh2 10+ year member]

Always have needed upgrades, I have been threw at least 5-6 sub/amp setups in 3 years. Once I find my self constantly bumping the subs full blast, it's time to upgrade ha

 

[RowJoe 10+ year member]

my front stage is 500 rms and it's still not loud enough. wtf

It's cuz your system is so beastly it's getting 500w RMS on music. Shit is amazing!

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

I go through a lot of systems due to not being happy.......or just wanting money to do other things, then back to a system, lol! It is a sickness.

My buddy though in his one truck has had the same system for a good 10 years or close to it....with the old MMats amps first came out. Has it on 4 10" Orion xtr's and old *** coustic crossover and old *** clarion pro-audio deck. Sounds fantastic to this day........it amazes me!

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

I go through a lot of systems due to not being happy.......or just wanting money to do other things, then back to a system, lol! It is a sickness.

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[nauc 10+ year member]

ive had mine for 1-2 years. no desire to change it

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

Next upgrade.. The car.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

500wrms bs

 

[Alpine4life89 10+ year member]

500wrms bs

You must be talking to me.

 

[RowJoe 10+ year member]

You must be talking to me.

You're on that smart stuff, huh?

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

If 500wrms isn't enough for a front stage, you're either retarded or from florida(redundancy, sorry)

 

[Alpine4life89 10+ year member]

If 500wrms isn't enough for a front stage, you're either retarded or from florida(redundancy, sorry)

it's not. And i should have added approximately 3 DB from doubling the cone area. I don't even use rears. I mean, it gets loud, but it doesn't impress ME. I wonder how deaf i am on a scale of 1-10?

And may i add, i have perfect hearing and have never been around much significantly loud stuff much.

 

[RowJoe 10+ year member]

Let me add to this. Most 6.5" drivers you see will quite easily fail both thermally and mechanically with a continuous 100w power. Depending on both the length of time driven, and the frequency.
Dynamic range is great, but bear in mind some if not many people can't hear a difference between a compressed/clipped dynamic peak and one that isn't because it's such a brief period of time. Also, many amps are capable of significantly higher burst levels than their cont. power rating. And lastly, music is generally so compressed these days you don't need an amp capable of such a wide dynamic range.

Imho, you can certainly do fine with 50-75 wpc amp on your fronstage... provided your drivers arent buried in the car, you have loud environmental noise, or you have hearing damage/grossly inefficient drivers.

Yep.