Bose Woes. LAC!

[Kent McLean]

Lee Levitt wrote:

>I did one good car stereo...ADS component speakers and powerplates, plenty
>of power, in a Volvo wagon. The system sounded pretty good, but I never got
>around to adding the subwoofer it needed. Oh well.

My Miata had a decent CD head unit and separate woofers and
tweeters in the doors. In adding an amp to it, I found the speakers
were ADS, with an ADS powerplate amp under the passenger
footwell. It was probably a US$1500 system when it was installed
5 years ago.

I added a second cheap 50Wx2 amp ($70, on sale) with a cheap
10-inch subwoofer ($40 on sale) in a not-so-cheap box ($50). To
my tone-deaf ears, the system now sounds great. The fronts handle
the mids and highs, and the bass thumps. Just adding ~$150 of
subwoofer to the system transformed it. Sounds twice as good as
the Bose system in my 200TQ.

If I were to re-do my 200TQ, I'd get a decent MP3 playing head unit
(~$300) with a 4-channel amp ($400) to power separates (woofer,
tweeter; ~$250) in the front doors and a subwoofer (~$100) and box
(~$60) in the trunk. All told, you'd spend about $1000-1200 for a
pretty good system.

The real audiophiles will tell you which manufacturers are good.

That's my $0.02.

Kent
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy"