Worst car audio products of all time

[sobe3yourself. 10+ year member]

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[oldschool4me 10+ year member]

1/2 DIN indash active crossovers.
They looked like EQ's, and I bet lots of people blew speakers thinking it could be adjusted for each song.

ppi made a nice one back in the day

 

[wenn_du_weinst 10+ year member]

u must not never owned a warhorse

retarded *** marketing gimmick

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

This shop asked me to buy one for $300 to put in my car. Told them I didn't need a giant rice bowl. Like if we had Ricers in car audio, the 34" Audiobahn would be the definition of it.

I'd of bought it to just play with.

I wonder if that basket would mount up to my APX motor lol

Ive seen one in person and it only has a 2" coil on them. Total waste of metal/chrome.

 

[wenn_du_weinst 10+ year member]

the ap 34'' moved around .25'' for it's excursion I regular 18'' will move more air.

 

[Renzone3 10+ year member]

SPL,and Phonics Digital have been by far the worst I've ever used back in the days,they made Kicker subs sound godly.lol

 

[Flex68 10+ year member]

Jensen

 

[itsblown 10+ year member]

Pioneer amps, The only line I know of is the lines that they market as being 760 WATTS MAX POWER!

I have had 2 friends using 2 of them and my god there is no way those things are putting out a 100 watts. I tried every wire combination on them and they could barley move subs. even had one wired down to 2 ohm bridged and it wouldnt push a measly 200 watt sub.. both of them cut in and out and blow fuses. Unbelievable

 

[Fi_ 10+ year member]

I guess but everything had been set up properly

If you set everything up properly you wouldn't be almost catching cars on fire... If they were that bad and that big of a risk Sony wouldn't be releasing them.

 

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

MA Audio Hk4000

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

radio shack car audio gear.
I worked at radio shack back in like 1997 and got my first audio gear there. The amp was like 10% THD and the woofers were pretty low budget.

I worked for the 'shack too... 30 years before you.. and their car audio was top of the line for its day. Excellent recievers (cassette).

 

[brynm 10+ year member]

Well, the 8" Bazooka version got tons of great reviews back when they first came out. I actually had two of them. They were still tuned a bit high for my tastes.

Had one back when they first came out here (around '93), I remember they rolled around with the demo truck that had a whole bunch of them in it in different sizes. It may not have sounded that great, but to a 16 year old it was amazing. Especially considering it only had a 40w amp on it.

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Jensen

Amps, yes. But their coaxials have always been respectable. In days past the Jensen 6X9 was king of the hill.

 

[Flex68 10+ year member]

I worked for the 'shack too... 30 years before you.. and their car audio was top of the line for its day. Excellent recievers (cassette).

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[CADENCE SOUND 10+ year member]

I've honestly have never blown a sub or fried an amp, even in my nooby days clipping things to hell, nothing ever fried on me. And this is running kicker subs, powerbass subs, sony xplod subs to boss amps, sony xplod amps, logic amps, cheap walmart amps

Same. I have been through tons of subs, amps, speakers, and that is not counting my DIY Zaph days..Never any fires, or blown amps/subs etc etc..Im far from a so called "Pro installer," but yea never issues.