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Actually there has always been two camps in car audio. Way back in 1991 when I went to the IASCA Championships they had both 'SQ' (sound quality) and 'SPL' (sound pressure) catagories. While we didn't know exactly what we were doing, some of us really did try to make our rides sound as good as we possibly could. While most of my friends were out spending $80 bucks on a 1000 watt Pyramid amplifier that sounded like crap, I invested hundreds of dollars in Precision Power amps (PPI) that were rated at 4 x 50 watts at .002 THD.

Sure I had friends that you could hear 10 blocks down the road, but you didn't want to actually be in their car. My car on the other hand may not have shaken the neighbors windows when I drove by, but those sweet MB Quart's sounded like heaven (at least to me), and were plenty loud from where I sat.