what was your first system?
 

Car: 1970 Pontiac GTO
Deck: Kenwood KRC-310 cassette shuttle deck
Speakers: Craig Powerplay Plus all around
Amps: Pioneer GM-H22 for the subs, Kenwood 4-ch for the speakers
Subs: Audio Art in a pre-fab ported box with horn tweeters on it.

That was back in 1991 when I was just getting into this stuff. I honestly thought I had the best stereo in the world back then! Hehe...

Car: 1989 Reliant K
Deck: ~$200 Alpine CD Deck
Speakers: Alpine Type-S 5x7s in the rear
Amp: Kenwood KAC-649S 4-Channel
Sub: 10" Alpine Type-S

This was back in 1996. I had a job at Office Depot, and wanted to go beyond talk radio! I knew nothing about audio systems at the time, and had AVU do the installation. Once I got some music, my car didn't seem crappy, anymore. In fact, it was awesome :D

91? Chevy Beretta.

Kenwood single din tape deck.
Kenwood single din CD slave.
5x7 Clairion speakers later SAS Bazooka 5.25 inch SAS Bazooka comps.
Rodek RA 50? amp for the speakers
2 Rockford DVC 10's from A&B sound. Got them on sale for $99 each.
Kenwood PS 400 running the subs.

Jenson flip out single din
Kenwood Speakers
some Fusion? bazooka tube with internal amp that got stolen :okay:

Dear god....


1987 Honda Accord
Kenwood Excelon Cassette Player
Sherwood Amp
2x 12" Kicker Subs (super entry level)
Sony Xplode 6.5" Coaxials

A Sony CD player I bought at A&B Sound for about $750 in 1991 and a crappy Bazooka Tube for about $350.

here we go.

my first system in it's best of days was a bit of a nightmare

I had 2 sets of 6.5" kenwood components in the front doors powered by a kenwood 629 each.
rear deck was a kenwood co-ax off some random mtx amp I had
CD player was a panasonic 901u (I think) with the fold out center channel speaker
I had 3 12s in the trunk, 2 audiobahn flame series and a ppi flat cone.
The audiobahns were driven off an old MTX punch 800 and the PPI was driven off an amazing phoenix gold ZX350


All this in a 1990 sentra classic. I had also had green neons above the rear 3 windows and blue neons under the front seats. super classy.

Alpine CDA-7873
Kenwood KAC-929
Pioneer Premier GM-X1020
2 x Alpine SWR-1240 in sealed enclosure
Kenwood Excelon 6.5" Components
Kicker 6.5" Coaxials

My first install in the late 70s...

1970 'Cuda aar

Deck: Craig Powerplay 12W x 2
Ft Speakers: Craig 6" in kick
Rr Speakers: Jensen 6x9 Triaxial (blue foam/ gold plate) 8 ohms

Denon dcc8920 a couple of Alphasonic amps (cant remember the model but they were white) big ass Kicker tweeters Pioneer mids and a Crossfire 12" sub.
I was the first of my friends to have a system and the first to have a cd player and rocked that cd player for years.

Lol, oh lord

Car: 1986 Plymouth Reliant K
Deck: Some Panasonic CD player that had a separate sub output, which was a big deal at the time... took me a bit to save for that one lol
Speakers: JBL 5x7's in the rear, and entry level 6.5" JBL compontents, which I installed into the front doors (there is no speaker in the doors from the factory, so I cut up the door panel! lol) looked okay, sounded like... poo lol
Sub & Amp: I still remember buying this cheap, Legacy(?) amp from Beamriders (where I bought all my stuff from) to power this preloaded, no name dual 10" bandpass box I bought from some liquidation thing down at the PNE buildings for like $100.

But back when I was in high school (late 90's), all that mattered was bass. If you had sub(s) of some sort, you were the shit lol.

1970 Nova (dad's car). I drove it all summer, so I installed an under the dash cassette deck..... it was a Craig. Actually, I think it's somewhere in the basement of my parents' house. I still have the users manual, LOL. This was around the time under the dash 8 tracks were still popular.

I also think I was the first person this side of the Himalayas to have a car alarm. I made it from a home alarm system. So long ago, I forget details. Used a key to turn it on and off, LOLOLOLOL. East Van....... what can I say?

Oooooo........ Jensen 6x9 speakers were all the rage. The blue cone. Car audio stuff was so hard to find in the early 70's. I remember going to Bellingham to what I think was QC radio on Guide Meridian.

I remember removing alarm systems from Porsches and other high end cars of the time that had the key switch in the door jamb to replace with ungo box and clifford alarms.

1995 Corolla... Gold in color.

Pioneer HU (the highest model of the first versions with the dolphin screen saver) paid over 700 bucks for it.

Pheonix Gold Amp (still works)

15 inch Cerwin Vega subwoofer... (still works)

The box took up the ENTIRE trunk, i built the box in the trunk itself so it could not be taken out, it had to be dissassembled to be removed.

so many lols were had in that car.

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I betcha that Phoenix would have run all ur subs. I had that same amp and it was under rated. I blew two kenwood 12s with that amp

Car: 1996 ford explorer
Deck: alpine 9856
Speakers: kaption audio speakers all around
Amps: kaption audio 75.4 for speakers, kaption mono amp for sub 700.1
Subs: kaption audio 10'' spl 1000

Once upon a time I was into car stereos, my system (This is going back 12 years or so now):

Car: 1989 Chevy Astro
In the background:
http://www3.telus.net/bryster/Stangnvan.JPG

Deck: Panasonic CD (one of the first with multi-color displays, I don't remember the model)
Front Speakers: Infinity 5x7's
Rear Speakers: Fosgate Components, Active crossovers
Subs: 2x12" Polk Audio, Later changed to 2x12" Fosgates (after the Polks blew up). Sealed box.
Front & Rear amp: US Acoustics 4-channel (I think UST-4065)
Sub Amp: Sony Mobile ES XM2100G

The best think about a van is that there's no seat blocking the subs.

sony cd player w/ some boost level turn knob.
pioneer 100W mono amp
pioneer bazooka sub, it was either 8in or 10 in.

Alpine Deck
Two 10" Crankensteins
4" JBLs in doors
For the life of me, I can't remember what kind of amp I had but it was the tits back in the day lol... 16 years ago :badpokerface:

Early 90s, I installed some gear from Crutchfield in a 1980 E250 van.
Pioneer casette deck.
Kenwood components in homemade speaker pods run off deck power.
Advent 10" stuffed in a pre fab truck box powered by a Carver M2120.

It was so much easier back then to trump factory SQ.
Integration was a piece of cake too.

I wanna see a picture of that car! One of my faves!
Here's my Goat:

1988 VW Jetta GL
Deck - Fully removable Sony tape deck, just like this one:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TXFDemLwbF...0/IMG_9637.jpg
Speakers - Sony... I think. lol

After that, it was a JVC deck with a London Drugs special amp and subwoofer from the late 90's. I genuinely have no idea what the brand was anymore and it sat in my shed for nearly a decade. Orgasm_Donor recently destroyed that sub for me :lol