BP> Fear not, I like  homeaudio too....but as far as I can see...plop a
 BP> pair of speakers in  the livingroom, sit between them and crank it
 BP> up!  There's good home  audio.  A car poses far more challenge than
 BP> that!  :) :)
Eh, good equipment makes a difference too, along with the furniture and 
carpeting in the room.  With my stereo, it's more like plop 5 speakers in 
various locations around the room :)  Then string tons of 16ga wire from them 
to the reciever (which, right now, is a fairly high end JVC surround sound 
system)
But yeah, a car does pose a very difficult challenge!
 BP> I consider myself to be a purist as far as sound goes.  My car is
 BP> packing about 700 W RMS right now...mostly because I desire the
 BP> headroom  that only considerable power can deliver...not the
 BP> bad-sounding,  headache-causing sound it is also capable of.  But you
 BP> all know how it  goes.  Causemy car packs some wicked punch, I must
I'm only hitting about 150-200 RMS right now (cheap amp being the main 
reason; my money right now is going to getting the car it's in fixed up 
somewhat).  But it's still plenty loud, and has plenty of bass if you're 
inside the truck.  If you're standing outside, and the windows are up, you 
can hardly hear a thing (mainly because of all the sound deadening material 
smeared all over the place inside the truck).  I consider it a starter system 
though... :
Clarion DRB4275 CD head unit
Boss  AVA-650 "300w" amp (yeah, RIGHT.. more like 30x4 instead of 
75x4!)
8" SAS Bazooka tube (soon to be replaced with some real bass makers)
Alpine 6.5"'s in the doors
Audio Art 1" tweeters on the kickpanels
The Alpines and Audio Arts are wired to Audio Art passive xovers, and there's 
also caps on the Alpines to keep the low bass going to the tube (which is 
crossed over at about 120hz)
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