This Day in History: Car stereos on steroids
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- In the 1980s the average car stereo just wasn't enough. Drivers began installing big, loud multi-speaker systems to blast music from their rides. But not all drivers were happy about this new fad. CBSN looks back at the craze in its weekly segment, "The Way it Was."
Back then us bass heads thought a vibrating mirror was something, now sound systems are literally ripping body panels apart.
Yeah, cars are literally blown apart with systems nowadays.
Started (BOOMING) in 1983 and still humming in 2023 at 53 y.o and will not stop untill the day i die..
#Basshead4life 😊
what?
dam right !!!!! started when i was 12 and now i am 45 years old now and still at it
👍👍
Love it. Im in my mid 40s and still rattling people's windows. Stay loud 🔊🔊🔊
Mid 40's?? Youngin' I'm 54, and can still shut em down.... just not competing anymore because only one competition a year comes any closer than about a 12 hour drive from me, and that one is STILL a 5 hour drive.... the drive last longer than the actual competition. Back in the mid 80's and early 90's, competitions would sometimes last 2 or 3 days, now you're lucky if they last 2 or 3 hours. I just bump for fun now..... I LOVE it when these "kids" pull up next to me thinking that they have a loud system..... the look on their faces when they realize that their vehicle is shaking because of MY system.....lol! Priceless!
@@jpayne8096 you are absolutely right the look on people's faces is priceless. My daughter doesn't even have her license yet and was more worried about what system she was going to get in her car then learning to Drive it. Proud moments. Keep it loud have a good day
@@jpayne8096 55 still bagging dat beat🔥🔥🔥
@@jpayne8096 what is/was your system composed of at the time of you writing that reply? I'm tryna shake windows with one vxf 15 but idk if it'll be enough. Gonna upgrade battery and alt and give good clean power.
@@bailey2517
Two American Bass XFL 10's running off of two American Bass 4480.1 amps on each, in a 2005 honda pilot.....
Awesome post, thanks!
"Will this fad pass," he said. Lol
Was up Big D Wiz......80-90s Miami Bass music never dies.
@@25hztolife86 6000 watts in 1989 was impressive though. Today we see 50-100,000 watt systems, but those of us from back then know it was cooler to have 6000 watts in 1989 than 100k watts in 2020 :-)
@@wal Hey its BigDWiz i knew you were gonna be here 😂
This segment SHOULD be called "How To Journalism." Where an actual journalist takes stuff as irrelevant and inconsequential as car stereos and turns it into an actual well written well paced well filmed of legitimate journalism that is not a smear or hit job yet somehow the audience still enjoys it imagine that.
Ya, you don't see segments like this anymore.
Or it's basic journalism on a relevant topic
Those were the days. I was born in ‘76 & I’d always visit the local car shows & car audio shows back in the 90’s & car audio was always my favorite. I had many different audio setups over the years & I still have a nice stereo system in my truck now.
Every car I get I make the same proclamation, “ I’m leaving this one alone”. I usually last 6 months before I toss in a system.
6 months???? When I buy a vehicle, within a half hour of first arriving home the factory stereo goes in the trash..... and so it begins!
Back in 90 or 91, I set a db drag racing world record of 154.1 db with two 12" woofers in the street 1-2 class. Would still be at it, but nobody's into it like before, there's literally NO competition. Last show I competed in, I was the only car in my class.... what fun is taking 1st place if you are the only one there?
@@jpayne8096 the issue is that its so easy to be loud now that everyone can do it. even me being a 16 year old on a high school budget is in the upper 140s with 2 sundown e-12 v.3s and a dc audio 2.0k
@@haydenwiseman3056 you are definitely not in the high 40s with e series sundowns on only 2k. Maybe with gigantic 6th order box. Maybe.
Im running to sa 12 rev 3's on an sfb 3k with an xs d3400 battery and I'm maybe low/mid 40s.
@@dirtboy896 what car though I got a small car. And fine I have not actually gotten it metered because I don't have a meter nor a shop near me that does
J Payne honestly im not from the 90’s but from what ive heard from family and others is that back then the systems were really loud and clear, from the bass to the voice to the tweeter, but nowadays everything is just about the bass flex i personally like it loud with not too much rattle, its always gonna b there but i try my best to cancel it out
The game ain't change just got more fierce!
45 and still pounding!!!💥🇺🇸👍 Keep sound systems great!!!🇺🇸
Makes me want to dig out my "The bass that ate Miami" Tape.
I could not afford a system as a kid but now as a adult I got me a very good system. Sooner or later I will have a larger and better system.
Nice ride back. I currently run 14 speakers in my crew cab. 6 12s on 3 2400 watt maps, 4 8inch mids on a 750watt and 4 tweets on a 750 watt... 300 amp alternator, 5 batteries and several runs of 0 gauge wire.
Pulls about 600amps @ 75% volume.
Amazing to see how far we've come in car audio while at the same time feeling so familiar.
tp7886 no kidding!
pushing 6k back then seemed like a feat haha. Now a days one Sundown or DC Audio amp can push that no problem. Haha I chuckled when everyone was amazed at the windshield vibrating a little bit. Now we have guys like exo and Lifeofprice that break the windows haha
dank9288639 the Italian SP Audio renault clio demo car is the most violent and awesome window breaker I’ve seen. 😎
@@dank9288639 I can attest to this lol. dc audio 2.0k and 2 sundown e-12s pushing upper 140s
@@dank9288639 don't forget Mead916 when he knocked the fake eyeball out of her eye with the bass notes..
@@dank9288639 yeah the speakers, amps and power systems these days bring a whole new level of loud! Where were the 18 inch woofers with 4 inch peak to peak excursion in the 80's? What about the 20 kilowatt power amps and high output alternators? I think the mids and highs got plenty loud though. I mean it is the era where rock bands were setting SPL records.
I miss those days.
Exactly what I was looking for. The memories. In my hood growing up I remember the house windows rattling. Just ain’t the same now.
Nothing makes you feel better then cruising down the highway listening to your favorite song blast loud and clear and crisp 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲💯💯💯💯
Rockford Fosgate
Soundstream
Phoenix Gold 🇺🇲🇺🇲
I remember seeing this segment when I was a kid. It's probably the reason why I've had a system in every car I've ever owned. Lol
Yea, I remember this story, crazy!
25grand For 6000w in 1989 SMH!
The days of 800-2000$ class A amps that were 300-500 watts max
Woofer needed 250watts to slam.
Sq built woofers with cute little magnets .The car audio builds and money spent then compared to achieve what we can do for 1000$ today.. Legendary!!
Lots of great amps and headunits passed thru the 90s And are extinct today . Wish I was one of them rich guys who had the chance to own some great audio gear.
that's $62,000 adjusted inflation.... let that sink in, today one 18" gets the same results if not better
2020 and still bumping! Oh, and I have my OG LaTrimm cassette and on my Napster account. 😎👍
I got the car audio bug in 1989. My first real system was in my brand new 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS Turbo. I had a Kenwood head unit a 4 channel Alpine running 2 sets of Altec Lansing coaxials and my bass was a 10" Bazooka tube powered by a Rockford Fosgate Punch 150. I was playing cd's on my Sony car discman which you had to insert a cassette adapter into the Kenwood head unit for it to play. It was mounted on a gooseneck stand. I was traveling with a case logic CD case with about 60 discs. It was like a suitcase. Times sure have changed. I was even rockin that fake cell phone antenna.
Lmao the fake phone antennas.
Woohoo!! Nice segment!
Car audio had advance so much from back then. No longer need 24 subwoofers just 4 subs will give you more bass. Went from windshields barely moving to all out shattering. Bass will never die.
OL $KooL Bass and car audio can shatter a window
still rocking my JL 10"'s from 1993
Yep I still have my W7
I refoamed a set of JL 12W4 (kind of an oddity) subwoofers for a relative. They are rated as "200w" but he has them on a 1000w ALPINE amp and has zero issues.
Amazing to hear some of that 80s music with a system. Something I've NEVER heard anyone else with a system blasting ever... Except me 😂 If you hear anyone thumping its 100% rap...
Early 90's some goof at every competition had madonna's immaculate collection full tilt.
One sounded like bachbusters
I had a Jeep Cherokee with a bandpass that held two 15s, me and a friend used to cruise around bumping Joe Diffie. We got some strange looks.
Amazing how back then they said I would be deaf...well I still compete and have perfect hearing. ...!
huh?
I had all Rockford so my vision is still blurry
WHAAAAAAT! IF YOURS EARS ARE GOOD THEN WHHHYYYYY ARE YOU YELLING!!!! 🤣😂
Same👍
Well your hearing might have gone from high end WAV to youtube quality.
I can hear it now back in the early 90's master ace - born to roll was EVERYWHERE!
😢😢😢 I miss that time
2018 and were still bangin
2019!!! And we're still bangin
Got a 2006 Ford Escape it’s a sleeper it has 4 12s 2 batteries and 2 4000 watt amps so I’m setting off car alarms like cray cray
Back when 6000 watts was really 6000 watts. Not 6000 watt max bs they put on the boxes now
I'm 44 and got 2 12" sundown and planning on adding more you can't never have to much bass
2:34 will this fad pass? LOL. Sike
This is funny. I used to have two 18 woofers and two 15 inch woofers back then in my vw. 15 minutes after the law passed about the stereo noise I was pulled over in Hayward. I got a very expensive ticket and many more after that.
6,000 watts was alot of power back then, now there's guys out there running over 40,000 watts!
Ikr I'm running 8k on just my sub's
@@MrALAVOL99 🤣🤣🤣 im running a 5k on one sub
today 6,000w is considered entry level rookie power lmao
I had those sparkomatics 6x9s hitting back in the day!
Tha mannnn!!! Lol
So fun to see how times have changed. More power and more stuff
Only true bassheads kept bumping.
The fad didnt end it got better 🤣
Can these people featured in this video still hear today? I've always thought having music in your car that can be heard a mile away is a safety issue. You just can't hear a car horn, or anything else, over all the music.
Living in 2022 wish I grew up living in those times. People were full of life
Now 8s are louder then their 15s lol
False.
William Loy depends on the brand.
@@jackkhol4251 not really "false" at all. We got people pulling 50s with a single 8 now the guy that had the flat wall was only doing 46s lmao.
i had 2 eclipse 8" aluminum cone subs in a 5th order bandpass that hit 140db. For my 87 prelude it was quite adequate with a measily 500 watt amp pushing it. What is really stupid is people thinking they need 40,00 watts and 12 speakers to hit 170+ when they didn't use to back then. People are stupid these days and so wasteful. Don't need a wall to achieve the best.
no such thing as 5th order and two 8s can put out more spl, its all in the install has less cone area, but maybe higher rms handling or smaller box to take more power or in a bandpass box or tuned high, etc same could be said for the 15, just too much variables nowadays.
Oh man. I can only imagine rolling with this music as if it were current.
I was just bumping too short omw to mcdonalds…
I played the boomin system by ll cool j which was released in 1990
Been there done that.....still have my Rockford fosgate punch 200 ix.....in the attic
Sooo awesome getting better and stronger these days
This hasn't changed. I still hear these car stereos everywhere.
I’d honestly rather have an old school system for the cool factor, but for now my four 10s will outdo these systems
Cobster Wilson SURE IF ITS A NEW SCHOOL SYSTEM THEN YOU CAN. JUST FORGET
I wonder how many of these systems are still going and how many subwoofers had been repaired.
My subs and sub box are made for lows 28hz down to 18hz 8,000 watt rms Stetsom amp and my subs are 110 pounds Each. It’s not loud but incredibly low bass. So much that most people think I’m a helicopter or an earthquake when I pass by. Loud bass is easy and cheap compared to being super low and it’s not as annoying to people in traffic unless there near my car.
I had 2 Pioneer IMPP 8" and an Audiovox 800 Watt Amp that would absolutely bump like anything out there, I was out bumpin my friend that had a solo MTX 15" with Kenwood 600 class D amp
Car audio is not a fad it’s here to stay
More please, you should do an update to this story
which earthquakes were the orange ring foamed ones?
I have 4 12s in mine. 14000 watts! She beating the block!
Audio for life!!!
I could retire now if i could go back and save all the $$$ i wasted on car audio equipment! Funny thing is the kids then would spend all there $ and have $5-20000.00 of equipment in a $500.00 there parents or themselves bought! I miss those days when life didnt suck!
I'm old I remember that when it was on TV lol
Lol nowadays we don't need 42 only 4 because of the increase in efficiency
Doug 's dad mounted those systems
2:03 if she could do that to her Mk2 GTI in 1989, then imagine how much better it would be if I did it in my Mk2 GTI today using the past 35 years of technological advancement.
The fad got louder and more expensive, I'm 20k in now
Oh, i love it i was competing back in 89' good old day's.
Speakers getting better and better, and the music is getting worst and worst :P (todays pop music)
You got that right I still listen to my old stuff
now we got 100,000 watts and gabber music
Every whip I’ve owned!! A System has went in and will continue!!! Keep Bassin!!!🇺🇸 that means you’re hittin!! 🔊🔉
1986 was my first car audio experience
I was sure that that was Kelly Brady in that red Volkswagen rabbit until they said the name . I thought to myself wow she's been into this since 1989.
48 woofers having a total output of 6,000 watts for $62,000 adjusted inflation? Jeez. It takes one 18" and about $5,000 to achieve the same results in 2024. Damn.
I'm at 2700 watts now and I've set 3 car alarms off. I'm going to laugh if I get a ticket.
2700 watts? Rookie! I'm running 8000 watts just on my two 10" subs!🤣
It’s all in the game
I had a 1990 Jeep Cherokee with a Pull-Out Pioneer Head Set,with a Kenwood 9042 EQ with a 921 amp and a 1021 Amp. Pushing Top of the the line JBL Speakers. Two 15s JBLs in the rear.
You know your old when you said a 921 and a 1021 and I can tell you the wattage those amps put out per channel and not even think about it.
@@warpedhifi1 Lol! Yeah I'm in my 50s
A neighbor of mine took the whole back seat out of his 84 Camaro and installed woofers and speakers in the back.
I have 14 Speakers in my car and it's freaking loud but pleasingly clear. 🤣People that don't like loud music must hate music and must be very boring people.
Stay loud y'all!
Reporters speak with such contempt
I’m 34 and still bumping!
still have subs in the extend cab of my sonoma
That mk2 gti was mighty fine.
16 batteries and at only 6k? Back in the day it was more dynamic music nothing like today lol I personally don't like older stereo systems with bass higher frequency in the 60 hz sound I love today where with subs that go in the low 30 hz.
MY DAD HAD A 1980 CHEVY CAPRICE CLA$$ICK BACK IN "93" THE STORIES HE TELLS ME ABOUT IT WELL FIRST IT WAS 2 The Crunch Procasts 12s and he had it in a plexi glass box with a hot shots amp he said when he was at the car wash that all the metal ceilings would be rattling and that a lady had came from the apartments from the back and she would have to tell him to turn the music down. My dad wouldn't even have the volume half way up and every thing was like already shaking! My dad has done car audio ever since he was like 4 years old all the way still to now so he knew how to adjust the system and make it sure all the mids hi's a d the lows were all equally set right and even his girl when she would be waiting for him to come home she would tell him that he would be shaking the glass on the apartment windows and one time my dad was cruising somewhere in the parking lot of some stores and his car shut off because of his battery and I think it was because he told me he didn't have a good alternator so he didn't know what to do he got out and he didn't want to leave his car there and the only thing he could take from his car was his Bass Tapes and some other stuff and but there he had to leave his car and when he went back I think the next day someone had broken into his car and took some of the stuff and his procasts CRUNCH 12s which were in the plexi box well long story short he wanted to make a comeback he was without a system for i think about a month then he went to some place where they were selling out some car audio stuff in like tents and my dad and his ex girl were looking and that's when my something caught my dads attention and when he saw it he asked the guy who was selling them how much? It was 2 "15" crunch procasts and the guy who was selling them told my dad well I don't how much I can sell them for my dad pulled out what he was saving and told the man who was selling them we you know what I'm going to give you the deal of a lifetime I think my dad had not even a lot and there he was walking away with some new Crunch 15s my dad told me that same day he got those 15s he spent all day setting it up the system and he said that when he was finished that it was more louder more bass and more better than before with his procasts 12s well my dad enjoyed his system you know my dad would BUMP AND THUMP even after Midnight to he would always play the old $KooL BA$$ groups from like 92" 93" 94" like Bass 305,Bass Outlaws,DJ Magic Mike,Techmaster P.E.B,etc all those bass groups from the 90s well one day when he was Bassing like there was no tomorrow in the night he was feeling really good about it when he came home you know parked his car and the thing is he would always look back before he would go into his apartments at his car well that one day he didn't even look back he went upstairs to his apartment and it was right on the top he would look out his window and see his caprice right outside when he would look down now keep in mind That Dad worked for the car for his system and everything he did he was still in middle school when all this was going on like in the 7th 8th grade and that night my dad fell asleep on the couch and my dad is the type that with Evey little noise he is going to wake up well the next morning his Ex was asking him Where's the car at and my Dad was like what are talking about and she's like the car its not there and my dad went to look outside and there was nothing there he went back inside to splash water on his face because he said he thought he was still dreaming and he told me that this time they took the whole car and the system and all the rare bass Tapesno broken glass nothing they swiped the car clean and my dad told me he broke down and was ANGRY he well the detectives hE called had nothing they couldn't even find any finger prints and told my dad they'll let him know if they find anything and they gave him their card and my dad still has it till this day and you my dad tells me that it could've been a lesson to him because he would give a lot more attention to his car or maybe just karma but I even tell my dad what did you do to deserve this A few years later he got a 84 Buick Regal it had 2 crunch 15s in it but they are not the procasts just the regular it loud and it bumps but my dad always says it not as loud as his Caprice I always telling myself that I'm going to get all the same exact things my dad had in his caprice the bass music,the system,same car itself my dad is always telling me about the factory paint it had because he got it like that it was a metallic blue royal blue but it looked like it had a candy on it it was a unique paint job on it. The way my dad explained it I'm always telling him I wish I could've seen it. I am a REAL BA$$HEAD MYSELF A SELF and so are my brothers I am really glad I came from someone like my dad especially since all this time later he is still working with car audio and a time my dad was an entrepreneur with car audio in the late 90s early 2000s but it just kinda died down from there and I am really glad my dad got me into Car Audio because without I don't know what I would do.
I wish you had some cool car audio videos on your page after that book but got disappointed !
😀
CRUNCH WOOFERS WERE THE LOWEST QUALITY EVER
Six thousand watts....I think my cellphone puts out more than that😂🤣😂
6k still isn't a joke even now
love how this trend swept countries outside usa to uk. was rattling windows on the highstreet got so bad cops had decibel meters lol
That's so me lmao
Wow, I'm surprised these guys even covered something like this
Guy said 6,000 watts with 16 batteries in the car LOL.
2:00 yeah
Just installed a system today lol
Hello from the year 2021 it's no fad I'm 40 and I got 8,000 watts of subwoofer in my car still!
We like the boom😮
The journalist is epic 😂
But much respect
William Loy I mean I RE$PECT ALL THE OL $KooL MU$ICK AND JUST IN GENERAL THE 80$ AND 90$
Fad is still strong but I love hearing
Me: $5 & cheap auto-reverse head unit leftover from brother'd system upgrade. Add friend's 40w amp + speakers from PA system on-loan to dad = System in back of shabby hatchback that makes a stereo shop's showpiece van look "quiet". ;D
Yaaaaaaaa 2min 13sec Alpine 7902 or 7907
Imagine what their faces look like in todays world where skar audio and sundown audio exsist
Wonder what Leslie is up to these days?
What's the song with the electric guitar sample that starts at 0:40?
Felling MJ in your teeth...
A lot of little boys also had that same experience
@@asabhcir3636 never happened. try again.
Still bumping up the street🤷🏼♂️
Pioneer.
police gettin mad at peoples loud stereos
some guy driving a harley just chilling
BLAST EVERY SYSTEM
Fads. Lol. Still here