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Originally Posted by dezzo
One other things thats bothering me about this.
Its been sold/marketed as an audiophile way of listening to music. So who is willing to spend that much on a speaker to listen to compressed MP3's?
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Trust me, MP3s are good enough for 'audiophile' sound if you have the right hardware, especially at 192kbps, but even at 128kbps.
I have an IASCA CD, and even though its at 128kbps, and a lot of the bass is cleared out, it still packs one hell of a punch on either of my brother's car audio systems. But you have to think my younger brother has 2 x 12" Kicker L7 Solo-barics and 800w RMS (not peak, RMS) Kicker amp. So you are talking about well over $1500-$2000+ with wiring and installation and that's excluding the headunit, but you get what you paid for.
I only had a 10" JL and a 350w RMS JL amp (I don't listen to sub-bass much, mostly rock), which cost me about $900 all told (included a custom fibreglass sub enclosure but minus headunit which I already had from xmas pressie). I used to listen to mp3s straight off my mp3 player via the auxilary port, and it hit comendably hard. The stock speakers were already good enough for mid and high-range. I was sad when the vehicle was sold and I had to sell the audio equiptment off.
So in short there's nothing stopping mp3s sounding great, but you'll have to dip in your pocket. If you go past an Apple shop, listen to the JL speakers with subwoofer with an Ipod (the big glass dome one with a hole in the top), turn it up and then say mp3s don't sound good. Hell, even the radio hit nicely on my little setup. Most music systems don't come with a proper subwoofer (i.e. that uses a crossover, which filters out anything other than bass frequencies), so MP3s do sound tinny.