I've been away from any sort of audio for a decade. I just picked up a set of Morels, auditioned some Rainbows, and started looking at what's available again. Looks like a lot has changed with many brands gone the way of the dodo and others like PPI, Soundstream, etc. becoming shadows of what they once were. When I was last into car audio, Morels and Rainbows weren't even available. Not sure if Hertz was back then either. The main "nice" comp sets were Boston Pros and Focals. I'm curious what others had a decade ago. I'll start...
Nakamichi CD45z HU
Zapco Z250C4-SL 4-ch amp
Xtant X604 4-ch amp (replaced my Zapco in car 1 before it got stolen)
RF Punch 4-ch amp (don't recall exact model, I think a 400a4 or something)
Polk Momo MM465 comps
Infinity Reference 6x9s
Infinity Kappy Perfect 10" subs (pair) (in car 1)
JL 6W0 6.5" sub (in car 2...need trunk space)
Still have the Nak and Zapco...don't think I'll ever get rid of those.
Alpine 7941
Pioneer Premier components (front doors)
Pioneer Premier 6x8s (rear locations)
JL Audio dual 8" Stealthbox for an extended cab F150
Rockford Fosgate 4.6x (a royal POS)
Punch 250a2
I have none of the above equipment today nor do I miss any of it. Eventually I got tired of the POS 4.6x and replaced it with another 250a2 and just powered my door components passive. The 7941 was super picky with recorded media, went through a roll over in my cousin's Ford Ranger, and stopped working all together.
Edit: This was all in a 2000 Ford F150 Extended cab truck. I owned the truck for a little less than 2 years and put about 66,000 miles on it between traveling for work and traveling for my weekend DJ gigs. While I wouldn't have competed with that setup, it sounded pretty good for a daily driver sound system.
2012 Subaru WRX - JL Audio C5-650s run active off a Lunar L450; Digital Designs 1508 powered by a Lunar L1500; Pioneer DEH-80PRS as the source unit.
Eclipse 55090, 39011 (5.1 DTS decoder), 2-8 disc changers, Eclipse 7" monitor (sold, but recently re-bought this set-up NIB )
Diamond Audio Hex 6.5 comps (still in use with a Sony MEX-1HD in my current secondary car), Hex 5.25 as a center channel, Diamond Audio Motorsport coaxials for rear surround
Soundstream D'Artagnon 6-channel amp
Diamond Audio M5 10" subwoofer
Car: 1990 Ford Festiva
Alpine CDA-7949, 12 disc changer (still have these on standby)
Diamond Audio Motorsport 6.5 components, 6.5 coaxial running mixed-mono as a center channel
Xtant 3300c (I think. Can't remember the exact model number, just remember it having 3 channels)
Alpine 7995
RF Punch 400a4
Phoenix gold titanium (can't remember model)
Type S 12's in a bandpass box (lololoolol)
Diamond components up front (can't remember model)
Type R Coax in rear deck
I've been away from any sort of audio for a decade. I just picked up a set of Morels, auditioned some Rainbows, and started looking at what's available again. Looks like a lot has changed with many brands gone the way of the dodo and others like PPI, Soundstream, etc. becoming shadows of what they once were. When I was last into car audio, Morels and Rainbows weren't even available. Not sure if Hertz was back then either. The main "nice" comp sets were Boston Pros and Focals. I'm curious what others had a decade ago. I'll start...
Nakamichi CD45z HU
Zapco Z250C4-SL 4-ch amp
Xtant X604 4-ch amp (replaced my Zapco in car 1 before it got stolen)
RF Punch 4-ch amp (don't recall exact model, I think a 400a4 or something)
Polk Momo MM465 comps
Infinity Reference 6x9s
Infinity Kappy Perfect 10" subs (pair) (in car 1)
JL 6W0 6.5" sub (in car 2...need trunk space)
Still have the Nak and Zapco...don't think I'll ever get rid of those.
Alpine 7940
Vifa 6.5" PL woofers
LPG Soft Dome tweeters
Dual Kicker Solobaric 8d (round)
Xtant 3300c / Whatever homemade car amplifier I was working on at the time.
"I am one of the ones who contributes, dude....advice, tech support, design, and whatever. Especially the whatever." - cajunner
MEH-P9100, replaced by AVH-P7500DVD and AVIC-9 DVD nav
DEI studio 6.5" comps x2
DEI Studio 8" "add a woofer" x2
DEI 5ch 75wrms x4 + 600wrms sub
DEI 1100d
DEI Comp X 12" X2
DEI 1F cap x2
Cerwin Vega Stroker 18D2
0g wiring
Stinger SPV35 battery
Peugeot 306 GTi6
Still have 1x of the Comp X and the caps, rest has been swapped out-got some Focal Utopias for the DEI comps, DEI 2400D for the 1100d, DEH-P88RS for the AVH-P7500DVD
Well let's see. 10 years ago I was driving a '99 Cadillac DeVille. The system I had in there was:
Pioneer DEH-P8000
KEF 5 1/4" components in the front and rear doors (got them from a rep right before KEF pulled out of the US car audio market)
Think I had stuck an Aura 4x6 as a center channel running off the front channels of the head unit
I powered the front interior components with a Rockford Punch 125.2
Had 2 Rockford Fosgate Punch 15's in a sealed enclosure powered by a Punch 75.2 running at 2 ohm's. Later on I switched the subs to the Punch DVC's with the chrome baskets running on the 75.2 still. Still have both sets of subs back home in Jersey.
That system was one of the best sounding systems I have ever had. I liked it even better then what I had in the car before that and that system included McIntosh amps and the first MB Quart Q series.
Last edited by JerryK73; 04-30-2011 at 05:24 AM..
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ten years ago I was rollin a souped up 65 Falcon with a five speed trans and side exit glass packs in front of the rear tires. No matter what stereo you would care to install, you were not going to hear it. Always did get the double thumbs up from the rednecks though.
How about we just start putting caps in line with the headlights instead of the amplifiers? That'll fix the dimming right?
I couldn't find any other pictures, but here is what I remember.
Pioneer 940
(2) RF power 1000s
Pair is RF Fanatic Q 6.5s in the doors
Single RF 4" in dash for center
(4) 10" RF HE2s under the rear seat
Tons of sound deadener
Civic HB 99
Alpine 7903
Toshiba 2ch amp front
Kenwood component in the doors
Sony 2ch amp for subs
Pyramid active xover for subs
2 10" MTX Blue Thunder
2012 IASCA SBN SQi Champion "Pro/Am"
2011 IASCA North American Runner-Up and SQi Champion "Pro/AM"
2011 IASCA Canadian Champion "Pro/Am"
2010 IASCA North American Champion "Rookie"
Funny this topic has been brought up. Just bought my mother's house & currently renovating the crib as I'm writing this post. Sifting thru closets, attic space & the basement, I stumbled upon equipment which was suppose to be installed in a vehicle intended for IASCA 9-10 years ago. All of it is BNIB Gem Mint condition. Here's the list:
-Zapcpo SKU: C2K-4.0
-Zapco SKU: C2K-2.0
-Zapco SKU: PSIHPSL
-Zapco SKU: SX-SLII
-Zapco SKU: SLDN.12 / Qty: 2
-Focal Utopia SKU: 165W
-Phoenix Gold SKU: PowerCore
-Phoenix Gold SKU: EQ215IX
-Phoenix Gold SKU: Bass Cube
-JL Audio SKU: 12W3/D4-v1 / Qty: 2
-JL Audio SKU: XR525CX
-SoundGate SKU: ICB250
-Accuvolt SKU: FR375
-Dynamat Extreme SKU: 10425 / Qty: 9 Rolls
The thought of selling em' has indeed crossed my mind, however still unsure.
Last edited by robert_wrath; 04-30-2011 at 09:58 AM..
basic sony HU, pioneer 3 way coxial up front, and a pair of detachable speakers from a panasonic home stereo from like 90's in the rear. no sub. All in a 91 Honda Civic hatch back.
10 years ago I was 13. However I wanted an alpine 7995 for my head unit. power series fosgate amps(1500 and forget the 4 channel) with power hx2 15's and alpine comp sets for front and rear fill. Back then I thought if you had a 4 channel you had to have front and rear. Now I know 4 channels are for bridging your mids to
I had my lowered blue ranger with :
Alpine 3 disc in dash (still have)
Rockford Fosgate punch 100ix (still have)
Rockford Fosgate punch 40.2
Rockford Fosgate he 12's
PPI components in the doors
Alpine HU
Lanzar (the bullshit ones) amp that was more like 300watts instead of the 2Kwatts it listed
Pioneer coaxials
Audiobahn 12's (the worse I've ever heard in my life).
The bazooka 12's that happen to be cheaper were way better than those audiobahns. I even tried the P-Miller 12's and I can say "you get a bang for your buck". They were cheap, I paid 35.00 for each woofer and bought 3 and damn it was nice and loud. I had those woofers for about 2 years then sold them to my uncle (which he STILL is using the same woofers, thats atleast 7years and going strong). Talk about durability for cheap.
2 Cerwin Vega 15" LE
Some super cheap no name HU
Cerwin Vega tweeters in the upper door panels
Some model Infinity mids.
I think I was dirt poor back then and only had a system because it came as a set second hand for $120.
Now it has no sub, no midbass, just a couple cheap Infinity Reference 3.5" in the dash so I can listen to news if needed. Weight has become a priority.
'84 GN 10.60@ 127mph. Infinity 3.5 coaxials and a cheap Sony HU.
Wait, 10 year ago was 2001. I'm getting so old, I was thinking mid '90s lol. I think I had some JL subs because by then my mother had set some boxes on top of my Cerwin Vegas and punched holes in the cones while I had them out for cleaning.
'84 GN 10.60@ 127mph. Infinity 3.5 coaxials and a cheap Sony HU.
What did you have 10 years ago?
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