Car audio - not a topic?


A search for the phrase "car audio" returns the most recent thread from 2019. Searching for car audio as a topic, I find none, so here we are in misc. Is Audiogon the wrong place to discuss car audio?

Should it become a place?

Active noise cancellation and other cabin treatments are expensive enough to suggest buyers want the quiet cabin. What about music in that cabin?

Recently, I auditioned a Bang and Olufson system in a Genesis GV70. It sounded distant to my ears. I don’t know why? Does the "Quiettuning" that keeps the road noise out also deaden the music? I could hear the music but it seemed very far off and was anything but involving. Anyway, maybe this is a better topic for AI in a Google search?

jr1000

The worst car system I had as far as I can remember was a Mark Levinson branded system. 

@mahler123 window smashed and the system ripped out.

Back then, stealing became a common problem so we had removable/slide our radios which we took with us. Also had a sliding equalizer, blasted music occasionally

@jr1000 cabin noise differences are VERY noticeable

This is THE hardest thing to give up. My Lexus is as large as my Odyssey minivan. I want to reduce but am afraid of increased cabin noise. Some small Lexus loaners were noisier. Still considering searching 

@secretguy The worst car system I had as far as I can remember was a Mark Levinson branded system. 

I’m not a ML fan and note that car stereo speakers+ is not their forte, so my expectations are low. 

 

My son has the Audi E-Tron A6 has a Bang & Olufsen  830 watt, 20 speaker system. It's very low noise and sounds absolutley amazing. 

I bought a 2020 Toyota Tundra brand new with the basic sound system. It SUCKED. Six speakers but it still sounded like a single mono speaker in the middle of the back seat in an old car.

In less than a week I put 2 grand into the audio. That got me new JL Audio speakers, soundproofing in the doors and an Alpine subwoofer/amplifier combo that's made to go under a Tundra front seat. MUCH better and good enough to get me to work and back.