Car Stereos Gone Wild (and More)
Most of us never think twice about our car stereos. They come preinstalled in your automobile, and you take it for granted. But there is a whole subculture of people whose greatest pleasure in life is crafting absurd mobile entertainment centers that put many peoples' home theaters to shame.
TVs galore, more sub-woofers than your bowels could possibly stand, and chains of amplifiers that drive volume up to building crumbling levels -- these are some of the specs we encountered while walking the mobile tech areas at CES.
We may well have suffered permanent hearing damage to bring you this massive photo collection of the most intense displays of car audio and video power at CES. A few of them even made this guy's stereo look tame by comparison. Take a look!
Gallery: Car Stereos Gone Wild
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Daniel Gaunt @ Jan 13th 2008 8:41AM
most of these people just want to show off, it makes no sense having 16 screens in your car and the volume they put their "music" up to is so others can hear it. at least if they listened to decent music instead of pathetic rnb it wouldn't be so bad.
you can get decent ice for under $400, these enthusiasts as they call themselves should ask themselves if someone else could make better use of the money they waste, like charities for example
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me @ Jan 14th 2008 6:21PM
Heh, nice... More speakers and crap for someone to steal out of your car, that sounds like a good thing! I'm someone who loves music, and I'm someone who has two subs, two front speakers, an amp, and a two bass speakers in my car.. But to have THAT many speakers (that they're putting in cars), come on now.. I already fear someone's gonna steal the crap out of my car.. just think what you can worry about with all that.. and come on now, the world isn't completely perfect where someone's not gonna think about stealing it.. I've known SEVERAL people who lock up their cars everyday, who have security, who HAVE a sound system in their car, and yet, that's not even good enough because some person wants to be an ass, and goes and finds a way to steal it anyway...heh.. hmmm...
Konstantine G. Melidis @ Jan 15th 2008 4:40AM
Just a moment, friends! Physics is physics, right? And if a 5-Amp. current can result in 7 kWatts, this means that the source (isn't it the battery?) must have a voltage of 1,400 Volts!
On the other side, if the battery is "only" 24V (I think the usual value is 12, but let us assume these cars have "special" batteries), it must supply close to 292 Amperes! Come on, now...