Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
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Originally Posted by BKH
Linear power 652IQ, 992IQ, 1502IQ, 4 Kicker C-10's, Kicker 5.25 inch mids, Kicker Tweeters, Hi-Fonics EQ of some sort, Can't remember the crossover I had, or the head unit besides it was a Pioneer. In a slammed Nissan Hardbody with a blow-thru. All circa 91-92. Worked at the grocery store and my uncles tree farm and spent every dime on my truck!
Where did you live then? There was a red one just like that with a slamming system around that time near me. It is what turned me on to audio as a child.
But back on topic. My first junker system was a sony discman going into this Optimus 110
powering a Pioneer home 3 way tower set up that has the pioneer 12s replaced with these
In the back of my van.
Actually sounded pretty good and got fairly loud. Was maybe doing 115db. No imaging wise nope wasn't happening.
Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
1996
86 chevy cavalier coupe
Audiovox shaft radio
sony discman with tape adapter
wal mart LOC
LA sound Laguna
Pioneer triaxial 6x9's in rear deck
3 JL 10W0-12ohm
small pioneer amp running crudely door mounted no name 5 1/4's
legacy 3.5's in dash locations....
the trunk had a luggage rack that rattled horribly, there were also holes rusted in the trunk, I thought it was cool to feel the air coming out when the bass hit.
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I had a (no bullshit this was the real name) "hella beats" amp running 2 A Acustic 6x9 4 ways with stock door speakers and an alpine HU the 6x9's were rated at 500 watts but were not 500 watts. and I ran th amp low pass to so as soon as I blew the tweets I just ripped out the middle componets and ran them behind the seat like they were subs in my 85 s10 truck. I thought I was bumpin
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1973
'69 Chevy 3-window cargo van
Tokai fm 8 track
5 1/4" bookshelf speakers removed from the cabinets
1975
in a '72 Dodge 200 'shorty' wheelbase cargo van-side & rear windows.
early '70's Cadillac twin-shaft chrome pushbutton am/fm/8 track going to the biggest-magnet 6x9's I could find at the Swap Shop Drive-In flea market in Ft. Lauderdale.
1978
'76 Ford 'snoot-nose' 3 window van
Pioneer Supertuner II KEH9000 w/Pioneer fm plug&play booster, separate Pioneer amp, Jensen triaxials separates w/bass in the doors & the mid & highs mounted in the dashboard firing up at the windshield,
ADS 200's mounted on the rear door header plate facing forward
I used to play the Flock's "Dinosaur Swamp" with the balance nearly all-on the ADS's at a stop light and the intro would make people stop and listen...when the windows were down. Those horns!(the band, not the motorists' horns!)
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the year 1994
the car 1987 dodge daytona turbo
the deck: Sanyo (dual shaft) tape deck then Legacy Din tape deck
the Mids: la sound 5.25 component
the tweets: cliff designs .5"
the mid bass/rears: kraco 6x9's then ultimate 8"
the subs: urban audio 2-12" then cerwin vega stealth 2-15"
and finally the amps: 1 15x4 I think it wa a nakamichi but I am not 100% sure
sub amp majestic 150x2
urban audio eq
Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
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Originally Posted by BassnTruck
Where did you live then? There was a red one just like that with a slamming system around that time near me. It is what turned me on to audio as a child.
But back on topic. My first junker system was a sony discman going into this Optimus 110
powering a Pioneer home 3 way tower set up that has the pioneer 12s replaced with these
In the back of my van.
Actually sounded pretty good and got fairly loud. Was maybe doing 115db. No imaging wise nope wasn't happening.
I had a set of those subs and they actually metered at 122 db with my majestic amp.....those were the days
Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
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Originally Posted by audiogodz1
I just thought of something I ABSOLUTELY had in my car that wasn't listed. CA&E and AS&S mags in the floorboard and back seat!
I have to add the crutchfield catalog that would show up every few months in the mail. I remember also remember having a binder with article clippings of DIY stuff and sheets of paper with box calculations. I was always messin' with this stuff.
Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
I did not have a car in my teens. I rode bus and light rail and rocked this CD Player. I had this exact one but without the remote. 10s anti-skip was kick ass back then. There were 40s models, but it cost 50% more! On a set of two 1000mAH Ni-Cad batteries, it lasted 10 hours which was very good for a CD player at the time. There were ones that would go through 4 AA alkalines in two or four hours.
Couple years later, still in my teens, I rocked this Sharp Minidisc player. MP3 players were only starting to come out at this time and only had about 128MB in them IIRC. This MD player was probably one of the poorer decisions I've made. I did not use it for very long and it was quite expensive.
Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
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Originally Posted by eccom
Couple years later, still in my teens, I rocked this Sharp Minidisc player. MP3 players were only starting to come out at this time and only had about 128MB in them IIRC. This MD player was probably one of the poorer decisions I've made. I did not use it for very long and it was quite expensive.
I've got an MD HU that I got from my brother-in-law. He saw how MDs took off in Japan and wanted to "get ahead of the game" but then they kinda flopped in the US.
Since I technically am still a teenager everything is currently installed in my truck.
Look at my sig for the equipment
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I had a 71 Dodge Dart in which I installed components whose names I can't even remember. A pair of rear deck speakers, pretty good ones IIRC. There was also an aftermarket AM/FM/casette stereo, might have been Alpine but I'm not sure. And then a poweramp & 10-band equalizer. That was mounted under the dash.... until a girlfriend and I were uhh, having a good time and she sliced her thigh open on the corner of it. Deep cut, I had to take her to the hospital.
Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
Oh geez, let's see:
Clarion DRB-4675 (not sure about the acutal model#)
Phoenix Gold MS-275
Phoenix Gold AX-406a
MTX Thunder 240 (still have it and it still works)
4 JL Audio 12W1-8
Boston Acoustics RC41
Phoenix Gold PSC12 (think that's right for the 1.2 Farad cap)
Mark
Edit: Forgot to mention that this was all in a pimp-tabulous 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis.
Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
circa 93, my first car and obvious first system:
1984 S10 blazer
some kind of Pioneer Premier tape deck w/ cd walkman and tape adapter thingy
(2) MTX Blue Thunder subs
some Kenwood amp I can't recall the model of, bought at Circuit City
Boston Pro Series 5.2 comps up front running off the tap deck. :
Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
Other than a bag of weed, rolling paper and a roach clip..
The car was a used 1985 chevy chevette.
I had a pullout Pyramid auto reverse cassette deck (bought from a pawn shop).
The front spkrs were run off the HU. They were Kenwood 3 way 6x9.
The amp was a 4 ch realistic (from radio shack).
The rears were 6x9 somethings.. Dont rememer. they were run off the realistic amp.
I took one of dads blown house spkrs and put a new realistic woofer in it and ran it off the 4ch amp.
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Sorry guys I cant share any true old school memories but since 07 I worked my way up some. Started with Visonik 408xt set polk db9500 comps 2 visonik "comp" subs I thought I was the shit till I started piecing together a real system but most started out broke and worked their way up its the best way to learn and gain experience.
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I started my first system back in '93 (just after graduating high school). Like most, I was short on funds but had an addiction. Had about $300 saved up and decided to blow it on a couple of subs. Ended up buying a pair of MTX Road Thunder 2s. At the time I was using a Pyramid amp I'd purchased from the swap meet for about $40; it was about 18" long by 9" wide and weighed all of about 1lb. I popped it open one day to see what was inside; the PCB took up about 5 square inches lol. About a month later a friend sold me a Rockwood (not a typo) 2 channel amp that was bridgeable. It wasnt rated as 2ohm stable but for $50 I said screw it and tried it anyways. It actually worked great and never did burn up. I was running it off a cheaper Kenwood HU with some Kenwood coax up front and no rear fill. I had an enclosure blueprinted at CA Sound in San Bernardino CA and I tell ya, those subs were actually pretty mean. It was hands down the best out of my group of friends when it came to sound quality and bass levels (none of us had anything really good; one of my friends had some Fosgate subs but I cant remember which model).
When I got my license in 1978, AC Delcos in GMs were the best head unit, but I had (drum roll) a '73 PINTO, mustard yellow, green and yellow vinyl interior and, Obv, exploding gas tank (Dad's buy NOT mine). The stock mono went and I got a stereo (radio only) HU and a pair of 6x9 Triaxs of course in the rear deck. It got pretty loud and sounded like shit.
The first car I bought was a '71 Datsun 510 in 1980. I put a Blaupunkt HU, components (home speaker models, nice silk Peerless tweeters) from speaker City in Burbank (still there) in the doors, built the crossovers myself and put a (drum roll) pair of IB woofers in the back deck with a separate amp driving them. It was good enough for the time that my friends' jaws would drop when I put on that Animals cassette! The system was worth about 1.5X the car.
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my first subs, in 10th grade i think was a pair of 15's that had square magnets and no name or nothing written anywhere on them. Anyone know what they were by chance?
Optimus 3 way xover, Pyramid EQ/Amp DIN that said 200 watts on it lol...all powered by an Alpine cassette pullout.
Later i got some Jenson 12's.
I used to think bass tubes were so awesome back then. dunno why but most of my friends had one at some point.
Re: Name three items or more from your teens you had in your car.
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