i am gettin me a sound system and i was gonna go with sony n e body bot n e other ideas??

 

dimond D3 all the way

 

eclipse, pioneer are my favorites, i have a pioneer avic z-2 for head units

 

not sony anything!!!! i had the top of the line sony xplod head unit back in 2000. $450. it lasted 6 months. relplaced under warranty with the "new model". it lasted 7 months. guess what out of warranty after that. Guess what? im out $450. I would **** on sony to put out a fire. i wouldnt buy a sony ******* toaster. So in short, DON'T BUY a sony xplod anything for your car.

 

^Bad unit? My brother has had his 2 12 inch Sony Xplod subs and amp for 4 years now, still strong as ever, and damn they bump.

 

Agreed.....everyone that I have known that has had anything Sony for stereo equipment for their car has shot ****.....maybe thats why they call it Xplode.....

 

terrible quality. a sony sub will sound like a tin can in your car.

 

Sony sucks
Eclipse, Alpine, Pioneer, Infinity=Way to go!

 

What ever you get try to buy extended warrenty for it then you dont have to worry about if its gunna blow or spend some good money and buy high quality stuff

 

I have never had a problem with sony anything, my little brother still uses a 12in sonyxplod sub that i had 3 years a go. and it still hits HARD. I think **** breaks on people cause they dont use it correctly. IMO.

 

hitting hard doesnt matter, the sound quality is not there

 

I bought a Sony Xplod Deck, Sony Xplod 1200W Amp and a Sony Xplod 12'' sub like 2 years ago. They all still work just great. Didn't really have the money for anything real expensive then either. Haha

 

yea thats true, my bad i thought we were talkin about subs. their subs and decks are awesome, but dont buy anything from them.

 

it can hit hard and still cackle at the same time. why do you think they are so cheap? also, try putting a 1200watt amp on one of their "1200 watt" subs. it will blow so fast it will make your head spin

 

no speaker is made to run its max contiously anyway, RMS is usually half of that.

 

and how could i use a head unit incorrectly????

 

to be honest i have no ****** clue, im just sayin i have used sony xplod products and never had a single problem.

 

i have a sony 15" sub. its 450 watts rms and i push it with a 550 rms amp at 4 ohms. i had 2 of them (15"s) in my old ride pushed by 900 watts rms at 2 ohms. i have no complaints whatsoever. but i have no experience with their speakers. for the price i wouldnt complain. the subs were 120 each and the amp was 190 (550 4 ohms, 900 2 ohms) not bad, and it pounds like a seasoned veteran *****

 

I had 2 Pioneer 10" free air series subwoofers and they were rated at 350 watts max....I was puttin about 500 max into them with my amp turned half way up.......IMO sony just blows.

 

I love sony's products.... Buy whatever u want, in the end, if ur happy with it then thats all that matters.

My cuzn had a show car back in cali that was sponsored by sony a long time ago and dam, he had the most nicest **** put in his ride.... hes in the military now.

But anyways, I think sony is great if thats ur thing..

 

okay so the sub is about 400rms on their 12's, i guarentee it wouldnt even handle that

 

Dude im not gonna bicker with you, i see you have had bad experinces with sony, i havent.
i just wanted the OP the get both sides that all.

 

i have have the sony slim line 1300 watt 12" subs. hits pretty damn hard. check out my pics in a one the threads... hint, use search

 

I had a sony xplod amp.... it first melted the voice coil on my sub (my fault for sure!) and then it crapped out. Got a new one on warranty and then it blew up my alpine type S sube (was clipping pretty bad... it was the amps fault)... sold the amp right after that and got a Rockford Fosgate amp and a new sub... I would go with alpine or pioneer in my opinion...

 

Even though you went with Rockford yourself, you still recomend Alpine or let me put it this way, you don't suggest getting Rockford?
Its not that I don't agree with you, the last decent amp they put out was the Punch 200-800 a2 (I don't know how to get the 2 small and above you know squared) when they went with more of a triangle design of course those were the follow up to the Punch 200 DSM line wich was there best (IMO) They say the 25 to life line is a tribute or aniversery edition of those amps (punch 40/60/100/200)but I haven't herd one go yet, I'd like to though.

Sony used to make good quality **** back when. The XM 2000R was a good amp, they just decided to go with the mass produced image when they brought out the xploid line, I blame sony and the xploid line for the fall of cheater amps everywhere (lol) No Actually I blame people who don't do thier research and care more about numbers than quality.