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In '94 a friend in HS had a LeBaron with a couple of 12" JL's in it and i was amazed at how it sound so good.

That gave me the bug, it wasn't until '02 that the bug re-surfaced and i could afford to put a system in my own vehicle but i'll never forget that his car was the first awesome system i experienced.

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On 5/21/2015 at 7:07 PM, boom50cal said:

of course he gives no fucks. it's a ford ranger.

only bad mother fuckers drive ford rangers

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Back in 1995 I picked up an issue of Car Audio and Electronics (I think). I remember it had a maroon BMW 7series on the cover. That one magazine is what got me into car audio at first. Kind of fell out of it cause I never had a car to call my own until I was bout 27 lol. I got back into car audio after watching a few vids that Steve Meade had up on youtube. Still got an interest in the hobby, err...life style.

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Awesome thread!

Early 90's for me. I was 8 or 9 and my uncle had a system in his for escort. He played some DJ Fury for me one day and I became obsessed. Im 32 now and still a bass head.

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as a kid growing up the guy across the street had a thunderbird with a system that usesd to shake the crap out of are house and i was like damn that is awesome and have put a system in every car that i have owned since the age of 15. except for my mazda cx-9. have had a couple systems worth 4 times what the car is worth.

On 3/28/2014 at 4:22 PM, KyLar96 said:

Its all about the music anyway..... Do a proper install, something your happy with, Fuck everyone else...... improve in time, where you can..... its not rocket science...

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started when I was about 17. a buddy of mine had a loud as hell f-250 with 4 kicker 12's (not sure the model) but ever since hearing his car and his truck I have been hooked on speakers. my first setup was an audiobahn 10 in a sealed box then went to 2 audiobahn 12's in a bandpass (i was young and dumb) and things have slowly started to get better equipment wise. still have the 10. the 12's blew on my zx400.1 when I hooked them to it. now I have a really good understanding of audio and some good install knowledge I just don't have the kind of bank account I want so that I can get what I want. Currently running an older FI Q series 15 (the double stacked magnet one) on a kicker ZX1000.1 and it just needs to be louder

once you get a speaker moving so hard that its possible to make tinsels slap, you are already kissing "SQ" goodbye. :D

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Honestly getting into car audio changed my life.

Before I was listening to metal and etc. Really depressed in life. All I would do is play computer games all day and parents frowned upon it, making me more depressed with myself as that is was all I was really interested with in life. Had girl issues as well. Really put me in a massive slump.

I was watching gaming videos on YT with some kind of techno music in the background, and got addicted. Found out it was called dubstep. Started finding a bunch of songs and really started getting into the whole dubstep scene. Saw a couple comments about how good it sounded on a subwoofer. (I had no clue what that was)

Fast forward about a year later. Was at my friends house and he wanted to show me his system. Played some 6 foot 7 foot and showed me how much the subs moved (which wasn't much) but I thought it was the coolest thing in the world at that moment. Asked him to play the dubstep, so he did. After that I knew I needed a system.

did some minor research. got a 12" type r on rf 500.1, sealed box because they had so much more "SQ" than ported. I couldn't tune it to save my life. Took it to best buy. Didn't trust them after it was done. Found out about the dd.1, along with a "system of the month" bringing me into this site. Got the dd.1 eventually. was hooked with bass by this point.

Wanting to be louder did about a years worth of looking around on here, learning. making purchases as sales came through. then became addicted to SMD. installed all of my stuff beginning of '13.

Now I am much happier in life, have a awesome hobby, and pointed me in the direction of my major, ECE (Electrical/Computer engineering)

I look back at myself and I am damn grateful for this hobby/addiction.

/endofTL;DR

 

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On 10/3/2013 at 10:00 AM, ROLEXrifleman said:

Anyone who says they knew everything they wanted out of life at 19 can go suck a bag of dicks cause they are lying to themselves or brought up in a cult.

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What got me hooked was when i was about 12-13, my dad had finally installed an old yamaha ''kicker box'' and old school Hi-Comp amp he had sitting in the garage in his econo beater he had at the time. and i remember him blowing the surrounds off those 2 10'' yamaha's due to old age and that night he ran out and bought 2 Mtx 6500 Series 10''s and i was hooked after we went "to the store" to test them out without my mother finding out lol that box was a strange design from what i remember, the two subs shared space and then there was a 15'' Passive radiator that was inside a bottom slot port, and at the time it sounded awesome.

And then when we got my ranger, i built and installed a ported box for two 6.5'' subs before i was old enough to get my drivers permit lol

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I was 13 looking for a pair of bassy headphones & while watching somebody review some sony xb700s I happened to see Steves window shaking video.

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Honestly getting into car audio changed my life.

Before I was listening to metal and etc. Really depressed in life. All I would do is play computer games all day and parents frowned upon it, making me more depressed with myself as that is was all I was really interested with in life. Had girl issues as well. Really put me in a massive slump.

I was watching gaming videos on YT with some kind of techno music in the background, and got addicted. Found out it was called dubstep. Started finding a bunch of songs and really started getting into the whole dubstep scene. Saw a couple comments about how good it sounded on a subwoofer. (I had no clue what that was)

Fast forward about a year later. Was at my friends house and he wanted to show me his system. Played some 6 foot 7 foot and showed me how much the subs moved (which wasn't much) but I thought it was the coolest thing in the world at that moment. Asked him to play the dubstep, so he did. After that I knew I needed a system.

did some minor research. got a 12" type r on rf 500.1, sealed box because they had so much more "SQ" than ported. I couldn't tune it to save my life. Took it to best buy. Didn't trust them after it was done. Found out about the dd.1, along with a "system of the month" bringing me into this site. Got the dd.1 eventually. was hooked with bass by this point.

Wanting to be louder did about a years worth of looking around on here, learning. making purchases as sales came through. then became addicted to SMD. installed all of my stuff beginning of '13.

Now I am much happier in life, have a awesome hobby, and pointed me in the direction of my major, ECE (Electrical/Computer engineering)

I look back at myself and I am damn grateful for this hobby/addiction.

/endofTL;DR

Great story bro. Different backgrounds of how we got into this hobby but I think the last sentence was the same for both of our stories, how grateful we are to have found this hobby. Truly life changing for the better.... Besides my wallet.

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