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Subwoofer and speaker guide
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| 10-30-2016, 01:51 PM | #1 |
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Subwoofer and speaker guide
A general guide touching on the level of quality for different brands of different components. This is far from an all encompassing guide but can deliver good direction in where you are trying to go.
This will be a heated source of debate for many people and if you find that one or more items should be placed lower or higher on the list, please let me know. But by doing so, please annotate sources or give solid information to back up your claim. I did not make this list, it is merely an aggregation. This is not meant to be an all inclusive guide, so there will be brands that have been left out. Please forgive me. Once grouped into high quality/good etc.. it is organized alphabetically and not another subset of quality. Enjoy Subwoofers ---------------------- Highly Quality/ highly recommended Alpine (Type-X series) Alumapro Arc Audio Ascendant Audio Atomic Soundcubed Boston Acoustics Critical Mass Crystal Diamond Audio Digital Designs (DD) DLS Dyn Audio Earthquake Eclipse Elevation Audio Focal FI audio Hertz Image Dynamics Inhuman Audio Incriminator Audio JL Audio Kove MB Quart Memphis (Mojo series) MMats Morel OZ Audio Orion(HCCA) Rainbow Resonant Engineering RD audio Sound Splinter SPL Cell Stereo integrity TC sounds/Audio pulse Treo Good / entry level Alpine (Type-R or S series) Bravox CD Technologies (CDT) Cerwin Vega Concept DC sound lab Elemental Designs Funky pups Fusion Infinity (Kappa series and up) Kicker (CompVR,VX series) Mach 5 MTX Audio (8000's and up) Onyx Audio Phoenix Gold Pioneer Polk Audio Realm Audio Rockford Fosgate(power stage) SSA Xtant Questionable / budget Coustic HiFonics SoundStream Avoid / not recommended Alphasonik Alpine (Type-E series) Audiobahn Autotek Bazooka Boss Crunch Dual Jensen Kenwood Lightning Audio MTX (6000's and under) Pioneer (lower models) Planet Audio Power Acoustik Pyramid Pyle Sony Volfenhag Amplifiers ---------------------- High Quality amps/ highly recommended A/D/S Adassa Alpine (pdx series) Arc Audio Atomic Audiocontrol Audison Beyma Blade technologies Brax Cactus Sound Celestra Digital Design Dls Eclipse Elemental Designs Elevation Audio Esoteric Audio Genesis Harrison Labs Helix Image Dynamics Incriminator Audio JBL (Crown made models) JL Audio Kicker McIntosh Laboratories Memphis Audio MMats Orion (pre-DEI) PPI Art series Rainbow Rockford Fosgate (early 90s, Punch and Power series) RD audio Sifoni Steg Sundown audio Treo Tru US Amps Xtant Zapco Zed audio Good/or Entry level amps Soundcubed Alpine Autotek Avionixx Cadence Clarion Concept Crossfire Diamond Audio Directed (DEI) Earthquake Eclipse Hifonics Kicker MTX Audio Phoenix Gold Planet Audio Resonant engineering or HQ Rockford Fosgate (Power and Punch series) SoundStream US Acoustics Budget/Questionable Alphasonik Audiobahn Cerwin Vega Coustic HiFonics Lanzar Lightning Audio MA Audio Power Acoustik Tsunami Not recommended/avoid Bazooka Crunch Jensen Legacy Optimus Pyle Pyramid Sony Visonik Volfenhag Components ---------------------- Highly Recommended Adire Audio A/D/S Alpine (F1 Status components) Arc Audio Beyma Boston Acoustics Bravox (component sets) CD Technologies (CDT) Crystal Diamond Audio DLS Dyn Audio Eclipse Focal Hertz HI-VI Research Illusion Audio Image Dynamics Infinity (Kappa Perfect series) JBL(Gti) JL Audio (XR components) JL ZR component line LPG Max-Fidelity MB Quart Morel MMats Rainbow Resonant Engineering(XXX) Pioneer(premiers) Scan-Speak Seas Vifa Visatron Good / entry level Alpine Boston Acoustics (lower model lines) Bravox (coaxials) Cerwin Vega Earthquake Fusion Infinity (Kappa and Reference series) JBL Kicker Memphis Audio Phoenix Gold Pioneer Polk Audio Reasonant engineering Rockford Fosgate Questionable / budget Planet Audio Avoid Audiobahn Boss Crunch Dual Jensen Powerbase/Powerbass Sony Head-Units ---------------------- Sound Quality/High Quality Alpine Clarion ProAudio Denon Eclipse JVC Arsenal Kenwood (excelons) McIntosh Nakamichi Pioneer Premier Sony Mobile ES (from the early 1990's only, rare) Good /entry level Clarion JVC Panasonic MXE Pioneer Questionable Blaupunkt Kenwood Panasonic Avoid Audiovox Boss Dual Jensen Sanyo Sony Last edited by Montecristo; 10-30-2016 at 04:12 PM.. |
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This was not made by me but an old car audio forum that used to exist and I didn't want the list to die because it was a wealth of great information/starting points. |
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| 10-30-2016, 05:26 PM | #4 |
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Was thinking of this one here:
http://www.caraudioforum.com/showthread.php?t=337891 It uses a similar classification system. I like to use those lists as references for finding new options and products, there's a ton of names I'd never heard of when I first stumbled on it. I'm in two minds as far as the whole 'quality rating' thing goes. Even the best companies can release overpriced products that leverage their brand power. Quality is a good thing but value for money is more critical for the majority of consumers I believe. And that one can only be figured out for individual products, and even then that is hard to define and can change over time based on the evolution of the industry. |
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