Re: WARNING: DRUM N BASS WILL DAMAGE YOUR CAR SPEAKERS!


tha good reverend (reveric@pop.ucla.edu)
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:27:08 -0800



i will! that sounds awesome! :) i really don't know anything about
speakers or what makes a good system, but i know that my friend has a
couple of 12" speakers in a box in his trunk and when you play "warhead" or
anything similar w/ really low sub-bass, it absolutely rulez. ^_^ i can't
wait to try out my bad company stuff!

peas & love,

rev. eric

At 10:03 AM 1/19/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>haha!!! when I bought my trusty 89 corolla the guy put
>on the radio and the speakers were fine. But brainy
>me, the first tape I put in to celebrate was platinum
>breakz and BAM!!! Suddenly all my speakers buzzed and
>vibrated like some crazy african instrument! after
>just shy of a year of abuse from the likes of that
>stuff, the back speakers finally just fizzled and
>died. They simply would not play anymore, and the
>front ones are so blown you can barely make out what
>the news announcers are saying. so we patched in some
>treble speakers (twice the ....shit...um..watts, yeah
>that's it, right? twice the number of watts as the
>amp) and now it's tolerable.
>
>I dont' have the answer, but I'm thinking about
>getting a new setup in a few months. My theory was
>that I'd try to get speakers that could handle 25%
>more watts of poer than the amp was listed to dish
>out, and then I'd probably be safe. I don't know how
>that actually works with the electronics involved, but
>the heavy duty treble speakers have held up nicely
>under some rigorous beatings. I think they're bose
>speakers.
>
>Now no one on here will ever want to go on a road trip
>with me!!
>
>--- Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com> wrote:
>> Hey folks -
>>
>> Anyone here listen to dnb in their car stereos? I
>> do, and as I was
>> surveying my car speakers, I found out that I've
>> ruptured not one, not two
>> but three of my car stereo cones. I've known one to
>> be ruptured a while
>> back, but I didn't know the problem was that severe
>> until recently...I'd
>> been blasting drum n bass mixtapes through my car
>> stereo, and I guess it's
>> taken its toll on my speakers...I was planning to
>> replace them anyway,
>> but...gee...
>>
>> Anyone here have an "optimal" system for listening
>> to dnb?
>>
>> Elson
>>
>> - 30 -
>>
>> :. elson trinidad, los angeles, california, usa
>> :. elson@westworld.com
>> :. www.westworld.com/~elson
>>
>> "funny how frustration breeds desire" - meja
>>
>>
>>
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