sorry didn't mean it to come out like that ...

Don't hate the Playa, hate the game.

Its ok, $5,000 sure doesn't buy much these days anymore. :lol:

It'll buy a couple of rx-7s

It sure dont, and then add in all the to make a custom box with nice panels and it adds up in a hurry

Man if thats the finished product...that is fucking rad...

double post sorry

You are kidding right? $5000.00?

Quick question. What was the depth of these speakers? I was thinking about just screwing the speaker with some dynomat and i wanted to make sure it was that simple. I'm not really interested in pillars.

I wonder what the baby would look like?

^ Rofl

^Lol. I asked for that.

OMG!!! that was below the belt dj....

If I owned a shop I would charge at least 5g's for doing something awesome like that. That's a lot of work.

I was kidding. Actually $6,000 because of the head unit, forgot to include that.:lol2:

6k!!! WOW! I have like $2000 in equipment in mine, so your saying my custom work is worth $4000???? I quess it pays to do your own stuff.

OK, let me break it down for you guys.

Kenwood double din headunit with built in Nav $1200

Boston Pro 60 6 1/2 component speakers $400

Alpine pdx 1.1000 & pdx 2.150 $900

JL audio 12" W6 sub $400

Optima yellow top $200

new power antenna $100

Viper Alarm w/ power door locks, window roll up module, auto start, and paging $800 installed.

Labor and Materials $2000

Tax none, paid with big baller cash

Total cost $6000

For all your stereo and alarm needs I recommend Mobile Fantasy. They are located in Northridge, CA 818-772-2000


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Wow...you just told the world that Mobile Fantasy cheats on taxes...not cool.

Rich

He'll be ok... He's a big baller.

They don't cheat on there taxes. Its a promo they have, where you pay cash they pay the sales tax. Many other retailers run this type of promotion.

Thats right. Good day to you sir.

Very cool!

Rich

Quoted from you:

Kenwood double din headunit with built in Nav $1200
Boston Pro 60 6 1/2 component speakers $400
Alpine pdx 1.1000 & pdx 2.150 $900
JL audio 12" W6 sub $400
Optima yellow top $200
new power antenna $100
Viper Alarm w/ power door locks, window roll up module, auto start, and paging $800 installed.
Labor and Materials $2000
Tax none, paid with big baller cash
Total cost $6000


First my qualifications, former manager/lead installer at Audio Park Casper, in Hayama Japan for 5 years.. currently i run a much larger shop that is not specialized in any one discipline

You came into the forum ready to pick a fight and talk shit to everybody who has posted. Many of the forum members have more patience than I do, and I thought about posting earlier, but I decided to wait and see the photos. While the equipment is all OK and the install is nice, it is still at best a so so install. door mounted speakers?

for any type of sound quality those went out of style in the early 90's minimum would be kick panel mounted mid and tweet or at least a center speaker setup to help balance the sound stage somewhat.

non $$$ spared would have gotten you some image dynamics horn loaded compression drivers mounted under the dash with perfect imaging and staging oh yeah they run 1000.00 just for the horn drivers, does not include the required midbass's at 200 per pair or the 24 db crossover required it is about 1400 (IDX24 made by image dynamics) for a total of 2400 just for the front speakers.

if you do not like image dynamics then you could go USD they make horn drivers also.

The above does not include the install price of the horns....

your amps are what class A/B at best? its been years since alpine made any class A gear, what sort of D/A convertor does your headunit use? oh yeah its a kenwood they do not tend to use high quality ones, especially in their one unit does all models, while some of their more upscale non navi headunits do use some respectable D/A convertors they have to scimp somewhere when they make a one unit does all, and its usually in the quality of the D/A convertors.

no $$$ spared? i think not, a true no dollars spared would have placed a couple of midbases either 6" or 8" somewhere in the front to help the imaging of the system. it would have included much more sound deading than what was installed in that car, mimimum would have been a total layer of dynomat on the floor, preferably two layers. it would have included some poly foam in all of the dead voids in the rear to reduce rattles from the sub. it would have included balanced line drivers from the head unit to the amps to prevent any possibilily of noise induction, and the list goes on.

in short while it is a nice install for a 1st gen, it is far from being a top of the line sound quality install and what you need to remember is that just like building engines, or custom body work there is always something better.

acting like an ass to the members of the forum will get somebody like me on who has enough experience in the area you are discussing to cut you off at the knees. As a 30 something year old I would expect you to act less like a 16 year old and more like the adult that you are.

go be the mac daddy elsewhere balla

Kenn Chan ... I thank you for backing up my statement about it and everyone putting me down for what I have said. If you reallly had no $$$ spared into the system 15k minimun would be what you're trying to prove. I wonder if they even did any real math on the exact position of things. From my reading to do kick panels properly, the angle should be positioned to the top center of the car for a more neutral sound. So what you do is grab some strings and tape them up in place to find out angle needed.

I'm not going to argue too much more, while it is better than just slapping a box in there, it far from the best.

Not that I don't respect the work going into it, but if your going to shove half a tree into a car, use something like an old Impala, not a 2400LB sports car. I also agree that the title left alot to be desired. If no expense was spared than why don't you have a wall of subs behind the seats and eight batteries, etc etc etc? Also as a side note to everyone interested in audio on a budget, eBay is your friend. My modest $1000 system would have cost at least double that, if not more had I gone to a retail store.