Worst piece of audio equipment ever used - Page 2

stovebolt6 · 10-06-2008

a clarion headunit that was a lemon, but i got talked out of exchanging by the salesman. it would never play half of my cd's it would just show different error codes for different cd's.

i eventually threw it out the window at 70mph on the bridge by my house.

goingdef · 10-11-2008

the clif design 6.5 coaxial all pretty carbon fiber with the silk swivel tweeter well I popped off the door panel last night and both tweeters had rattled loose and one voice coil lead had come undone at the spider/voice coil. Now there being out done by a best buy close out dynex 6.5 60rms/120max coaxial that only cost me 4.00 a speaker and they really sound good off a p200.2 and if they cook oh well they don,t cost 91.00 dollars like these pos clif designs.

dark666apoc · 10-11-2008

ive had a lot of ****ty equipment but the one pos to piss me off the most was an audiobahn 110 thing weighed a ton looked iffy did nothing but move hardly anysound off 600 watts put it into 4 different boxes 2 cube sealed 4 cube sealed 3.5 ported 32 and 2 cubes at 35 the pioneer from walkmart sounded better then this pos dont remember the model number but i guess it wasnt all bad it got me my second vega 124

so wasnt all bad :thumbs up:

speakerbox1 · 03-17-2009

well I'm pretty sure nobody got ripped off worse than me! "$550 PAPER WEIGHT"
about 2years ago I walked into a car audio shop" first mistake"
bought some subs which i still have by the way and they do ok
then went back becasue my 779 pt was a pile of **** and I needed more power
The sales guy shows me a pretty big amp and tells me this line of bs that I fell into
even went as far as showing me a web site with a msrp of like 699 or 799
sold me the amp for 550 but wait tells me that he would hook it up
and if I dont like it they will pull it out! so I said go ahead lets see
f*** me this guy charged my credit card and then was nowhere to be found!
I didn't like the amp at all so I came back the next day and their like yeah we put the wrong one in we will swap it??? they installed a Z1200.2 but sold me a Z2400.1 D
so they swaped it out??? still a pile of s***.

well I wasn't able to do anything about it and I even contacted bbb and the local
good for nothing police dept they said take them to small claims...errrrrr

so 550 for a Z2400.1 D which in my opinion only put out about 400/500 watts @ 1ohm
wow pile of s*** later switch for a alpine mrp 850 I think? and had double the power that amp had no joke.

So im a sucker lol but lesson learned

here is the web site they showed me http://www.zeditionamps.com/z-edition-z2400d.htm

DON'T BUY THIS CRAP! HUGE PAPER WEIGHT LOL
I even told the guy that I had never heard of these Z amp and the guy kinda laugh at me like I knew nothing errrr

so have a good laugh "its on me" :-)

fosg8freak · 03-17-2009

yep bud, you got fvcked over alright

SlamminTriple6 · 03-18-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by speakerbox1

well I'm pretty sure nobody got ripped off worse than me! "$550 PAPER WEIGHT"
about 2years ago I walked into a car audio shop" first mistake"
bought some subs which i still have by the way and they do ok
then went back becasue my 779 pt was a pile of **** and I needed more power
The sales guy shows me a pretty big amp and tells me this line of bs that I fell into
even went as far as showing me a web site with a msrp of like 699 or 799
sold me the amp for 550 but wait tells me that he would hook it up
and if I dont like it they will pull it out! so I said go ahead lets see
f*** me this guy charged my credit card and then was nowhere to be found!
I didn't like the amp at all so I came back the next day and their like yeah we put the wrong one in we will swap it??? they installed a Z1200.2 but sold me a Z2400.1 D
so they swaped it out??? still a pile of s***.

well I wasn't able to do anything about it and I even contacted bbb and the local
good for nothing police dept they said take them to small claims...errrrrr

so 550 for a Z2400.1 D which in my opinion only put out about 400/500 watts @ 1ohm
wow pile of s*** later switch for a alpine mrp 850 I think? and had double the power that amp had no joke.

So im a sucker lol but lesson learned

here is the web site they showed me http://www.zeditionamps.com/z-edition-z2400d.htm

DON'T BUY THIS CRAP! HUGE PAPER WEIGHT LOL
I even told the guy that I had never heard of these Z amp and the guy kinda laugh at me like I knew nothing errrr

so have a good laugh "its on me" :-)

That sucks man for that kinda cash you could of got a crunch gp3000pro and 2 Everstart maxx's

mybird_91 · 03-19-2009

i have had many car audio mistakes. 3 pyramid 1600 watt amps, 3 visonik 1000 watt amps, 3 pyramid 12"s, 3 alpine type s 12"s, legacy 1000 watt amp, jensen hu, bazooka 5x7"s and a jensen 10" sub in bandpass box (walmart package).

creyc · 03-19-2009

Worst piece of audio equipment...hmm.

Probably my Sundown SAZ-3000D

....just kidding. I must do too much research before buying audio equipment because I can't think of anything..

bodar · 03-19-2009

My jl 13W7 i would say. POS, sounded great for 5 minutes.... crackle crackle boom!!!! 1000 bucks down the toilet on that one..... boooo jl and your crappy customer service...

03protege · 03-19-2009

My rockford T2000..

The metal grill that keeps **** from going in the fan fell out onto the board and shorted it out. GG Rockford

madsciontist85 · 04-01-2009

ha ha ha dual. I work on cars all day long, and you wouldn't believe how many people would put those in the back of their vans and stuff, the good'ol' bestbuy special lol. My disasster was an off brand I think copy of dual dvd with touch screen. I had it for a week, then the fan shut down and it started smoking, and no one smokes in the car lol, but that was it. I was going for that "bang for your buck system, and for about a week it rocked. My buddy had spent like $3,000 for some dc subs, and was going here and there to db drag events, and so i challenged him, i bought subs for like $200 then and amp for like $300, and used that head unit, and my $700 stereo kicked his ass lol, of course he was using the wrong box, and a ****ty amp, and i had a hatch (scion tc).

Kryptonitewhite · 04-01-2009

Audiobahn A1500HCT
lanzar OPTI2000D
Capacitors.

MikeWilson · 04-01-2009

I ordered two RED1000.1 (Recoil Echo Series Monoblock) amplifiers and both of them shorted out my testing power supplies. Got one more and it finally worked. But then the bass knob doesnt work and only causes a nasty rumbling noise.

Good amps normally, but I got the throwbacks.
----------

The worst thing I can say I've boughten was a SCOSCHE fuse holder from walmart a year and a half ago. The thing ended up melting apart with like 40 amps RMS. Caught the floorboard on fire....Aside from that, none of the walmart stuff I've boughten for whatever reason has performed poorly. (But never have I done the whole prefab box and sub combo thing either).

Ive managed to get ahold of subs that were submerged in water from wrecked vehicles that worked fine.
---------

ludude1975 · 09-21-2009

What the heck are Thump's ? Is that the sound it makes when you drop them lol.

Had to buy them heck they were $2 !

Oh yea I had my share of Junk back in the day, Audiovox 6.5's , A JC Whitney Amp I can't even remember the name, Coustic cassette player, Craig EQ / booster, All those cheap speakers the the dang foam falls off in a year lol.

fosg8freak · 09-21-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beatdown337

Worst piece of equipment ever used

Well I was dating this one b*tch...

xbguy · 09-21-2009

i bought a sony amp once. NEVER AGAIN. put out zero power and was constantly shutting off. replaced it with a rockford and never had another problem. no more cheap crap for me.

momentarylapse7 · 10-01-2009

Blitz Audio 1600.. first system. Some Power Acoustik sub too.. sucked ass.

gboo559 · 10-01-2009

Soundstream HU.
wow after that experience I will NEVER run SS again. Not even for free and only if they paid me a decent amount of cash.

The.End · 10-02-2009

lanzar subs maxpro they don't last loud but they don't last.

odieoverclock@yahoo.com · 10-02-2009

Rockford fosgate RFP1212 on release date, I built 6 boxes for these, 2 designs were designed by rockford TEC. All of them sounded horrible "loud", but horrible, and my old-school power series 15 dominated them in a sealed box. I took a sledge hammer to the speaker and sent pic's back to fosgate with the woofer. What a waste of $600.00 for 2. I swear my old series 1 12's from back in the day dominated them.

Krannyman92 · 10-02-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by The.End

lanzar subs maxpro they don't last loud but they don't last.

engrish? made no sense there yet again

necessaryevil · 12-03-2009

my first attempt at a system. http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2949286/2 epic fail!!!

Sevening · 12-03-2009

Some Dr. Krankenstein 6x9s that came with my old car, man they were bad. Also had some Dr. Ks coaxials in the door panel, but whoever did the install glued the panel back on to the door so I couldn't get it off.

Jp-kustomz · 12-06-2009

legacy 1600 watt amp cut out every two secs at 2ohms would only run at 4 n 8

bromo · 12-06-2009

MTX Thunder 8000, the worst subwoofers i've ever owned they had problematic tensils on them and would break. Made me never want to use an mtx sub again.

10-06-2008	#26 (permalink)
stovebolt6 150 dB Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 29 Posts: 1,487 Rep Power: 96	a clarion headunit that was a lemon, but i got talked out of exchanging by the salesman. it would never play half of my cd's it would just show different error codes for different cd's. i eventually threw it out the window at 70mph on the bridge by my house. __________________ refs- DBDesignsElite, Corey Anderson, brirat, KICKERASSMAN, vistor, gsuchta, TheDukey42, egoaudio, mattz-us3-ike557, FireWalker877, blackdragonx118, -12+VoLt=ShOcKeR, BlackWaterOp, breakjunki, Tacosys, tc3k101, Infrasonic, E36bumpin, orangecounty, loosewire1, and Schmuck.

10-11-2008	#28 (permalink)
dark666apoc 150 dB Join Date: Aug 2006 Age: 20 Posts: 1,115 Rep Power: 93	ive had a lot of ****ty equipment but the one pos to piss me off the most was an audiobahn 110 thing weighed a ton looked iffy did nothing but move hardly anysound off 600 watts put it into 4 different boxes 2 cube sealed 4 cube sealed 3.5 ported 32 and 2 cubes at 35 the pioneer from walkmart sounded better then this pos dont remember the model number but i guess it wasnt all bad it got me my second vega 124 so wasnt all bad :thumbs up: __________________ (bedroom) 1 15" cvr 5 cubes 22hz 4 12" cerwin vega 124 v-flex soon to be in seperate t-lines

03-17-2009	#29 (permalink)
speakerbox1 120 dB Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ridgecrest Ca Age: 27 Posts: 30 Rep Power: 19	well I'm pretty sure nobody got ripped off worse than me! "$550 PAPER WEIGHT" about 2years ago I walked into a car audio shop" first mistake" bought some subs which i still have by the way and they do ok then went back becasue my 779 pt was a pile of ** and I needed more power The sales guy shows me a pretty big amp and tells me this line of bs that I fell into even went as far as showing me a web site with a msrp of like 699 or 799 sold me the amp for 550 but wait tells me that he would hook it up and if I dont like it they will pull it out! so I said go ahead lets see f* me this guy charged my credit card and then was nowhere to be found! I didn't like the amp at all so I came back the next day and their like yeah we put the wrong one in we will swap it??? they installed a Z1200.2 but sold me a Z2400.1 D so they swaped it out??? still a pile of s*. well I wasn't able to do anything about it and I even contacted bbb and the local good for nothing police dept they said take them to small claims...errrrrr so 550 for a Z2400.1 D which in my opinion only put out about 400/500 watts @ 1ohm wow pile of s* later switch for a alpine mrp 850 I think? and had double the power that amp had no joke. So im a sucker lol but lesson learned here is the web site they showed me http://www.zeditionamps.com/z-edition-z2400d.htm DON'T BUY THIS CRAP! HUGE PAPER WEIGHT LOL I even told the guy that I had never heard of these Z amp and the guy kinda laugh at me like I knew nothing errrr so have a good laugh "its on me" :-) __________________ [Alpine 9885 2 Xtant 1044 ega 1700 d SOLD tr 500/4 SOLD Infinity all around polk tweets/crossovers red top NEED TO DO THE BIG 3 To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. **** NEW SYSTEM IN THE WORKS.....aq 1200d "Sweet"

03-17-2009	#30 (permalink)
fosg8freak 150 dB Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Morley, MI Age: 20 Posts: 2,437 Rep Power: 152	yep bud, you got fvcked over alright __________________ Being on the internet gives you not right to be douche. The internet is NOT just the internet, it is a place to learn, fvck around in, live your life, and have family or self supporting business. Being a douche on the internet does not make you cool. It just makes you a douche. If you need car audio help or help with fosgate products, ect feel free to email me. Email= To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

03-19-2009	#32 (permalink)
mybird_91 140 dB Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: edwardsville, IL Age: 27 Posts: 598 Rep Power: 67	i have had many car audio mistakes. 3 pyramid 1600 watt amps, 3 visonik 1000 watt amps, 3 pyramid 12"s, 3 alpine type s 12"s, legacy 1000 watt amp, jensen hu, bazooka 5x7"s and a jensen 10" sub in bandpass box (walmart package). __________________ [Refs (sellers): lilmaniac2, connersdad19, assman] 1995 Lincoln Mark VIII Pioneer AVH-P5000DVD 7" touch screen h.u. 2 crossfire db s4 12" subwoofers Sundown Audio Saz 1500d @2ohm 1/0 power/ground (knu klm) and stinger sp1700 Jbl premium sound system w/ factory amp. (originally posted by bruce): racing a civic is like being in the special Olympics even if you win your still retarded... To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

10-11-2008	#27 (permalink)
goingdef 140 dB Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: norfolk VA Age: 30 Posts: 659 Rep Power: 64	the clif design 6.5 coaxial all pretty carbon fiber with the silk swivel tweeter well I popped off the door panel last night and both tweeters had rattled loose and one voice coil lead had come undone at the spider/voice coil. Now there being out done by a best buy close out dynex 6.5 60rms/120max coaxial that only cost me 4.00 a speaker and they really sound good off a p200.2 and if they cook oh well they don,t cost 91.00 dollars like these pos clif designs.

03-19-2009	#33 (permalink)
creyc 150 dB Join Date: Oct 2006 Age: 23 Posts: 2,055 Rep Power: 134	Worst piece of audio equipment...hmm. Probably my Sundown SAZ-3000D ....just kidding. I must do too much research before buying audio equipment because I can't think of anything.. __________________ Looking for 2008 Fi BL, 18" fully loaded. PM me

03-19-2009	#34 (permalink)
bodar 130 dB Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Edmonton Alberta Canada Age: 28 Posts: 475 Rep Power: 61	My jl 13W7 i would say. POS, sounded great for 5 minutes.... crackle crackle boom!!!! 1000 bucks down the toilet on that one..... boooo jl and your crappy customer service... __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

03-19-2009	#35 (permalink)
03protege 150 dB Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Mandeville, La Age: 21 Posts: 1,394 Rep Power: 100	My rockford T2000.. The metal grill that keeps **** from going in the fan fell out onto the board and shorted it out. GG Rockford __________________ Not enough time with to much to do! Last edited by 03protege; 03-19-2009 at 04:57 PM.

04-01-2009	#36 (permalink)
madsciontist85 0 dB Join Date: Apr 2009 Age: 24 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	ha ha ha dual. I work on cars all day long, and you wouldn't believe how many people would put those in the back of their vans and stuff, the good'ol' bestbuy special lol. My disasster was an off brand I think copy of dual dvd with touch screen. I had it for a week, then the fan shut down and it started smoking, and no one smokes in the car lol, but that was it. I was going for that "bang for your buck system, and for about a week it rocked. My buddy had spent like $3,000 for some dc subs, and was going here and there to db drag events, and so i challenged him, i bought subs for like $200 then and amp for like $300, and used that head unit, and my $700 stereo kicked his ass lol, of course he was using the wrong box, and a ****ty amp, and i had a hatch (scion tc).

04-01-2009	#37 (permalink)
Kryptonitewhite 150 dB Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: soo foo sd Age: 31 Posts: 2,373 Rep Power: 157	Audiobahn A1500HCT lanzar OPTI2000D Capacitors. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. VAN build log To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. HT build log To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

04-01-2009	#38 (permalink)
MikeWilson 130 dB Join Date: Apr 2008 Age: 20 Posts: 360 Rep Power: 43	I ordered two RED1000.1 (Recoil Echo Series Monoblock) amplifiers and both of them shorted out my testing power supplies. Got one more and it finally worked. But then the bass knob doesnt work and only causes a nasty rumbling noise. Good amps normally, but I got the throwbacks. ---------- The worst thing I can say I've boughten was a SCOSCHE fuse holder from walmart a year and a half ago. The thing ended up melting apart with like 40 amps RMS. Caught the floorboard on fire....Aside from that, none of the walmart stuff I've boughten for whatever reason has performed poorly. (But never have I done the whole prefab box and sub combo thing either). Ive managed to get ahold of subs that were submerged in water from wrecked vehicles that worked fine. --------- __________________ Old guy @ audio shop said: Stuffing makes boxes louder because it pushes the bass out. FAIL Car: 1998 Ford Taurus SE Status: 151.8 @ 36hz at dash with windows up. Project success: B+. (Photos to come) Contact: Darkvirus2008 @ AIM, YIM, and MSN buy boxes from me because I love building them... To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

09-21-2009	#39 (permalink)
ludude1975 0 dB Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used What the heck are Thump's ? Is that the sound it makes when you drop them lol. Had to buy them heck they were $2 ! Oh yea I had my share of Junk back in the day, Audiovox 6.5's , A JC Whitney Amp I can't even remember the name, Coustic cassette player, Craig EQ / booster, All those cheap speakers the the dang foam falls off in a year lol. Last edited by ludude1975; 09-21-2009 at 04:59 PM. Reason: forgot the oldies

09-21-2009	#41 (permalink)
xbguy 130 dB Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 134 Rep Power: 17	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used i bought a sony amp once. NEVER AGAIN. put out zero power and was constantly shutting off. replaced it with a rockford and never had another problem. no more cheap crap for me. __________________ i gots things.

10-01-2009	#42 (permalink)
momentarylapse7 Almost Banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Indiana Age: 20 Posts: 5,335 Rep Power: 0	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used Blitz Audio 1600.. first system. Some Power Acoustik sub too.. sucked ass. __________________ Sub: Adassa Audio SPL 18" Sub Amp: Incriminator Audio 20.1 Sub Enclosure: ~4.7 cubes @ ~30hz w/(2) 6" aero ports Component Amp: Eclipse EA4100 Components: CDT 7" + Selenium ST350 Headunit: Pioneer Premier 880PRS Electrical: (1) Optima Redtop (front), (1) Optima Yellowtop (trunk), eD eNetic 1/0, Stock alt (for now, looking), 1/0 Big 3 (coming soon) refs: i got more than your mammy. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

10-01-2009	#43 (permalink)
gboo559 130 dB Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Central Cali Posts: 115 Rep Power: 16	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used Soundstream HU. wow after that experience I will NEVER run SS again. Not even for free and only if they paid me a decent amount of cash.

10-02-2009	#44 (permalink)
The.End Banned Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Lancaster Age: 21 Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used lanzar subs maxpro they don't last loud but they don't last.

10-02-2009	#45 (permalink)
odieoverclock@yahoo.com 130 dB Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Bend, Or Posts: 110 Rep Power: 19	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used Rockford fosgate RFP1212 on release date, I built 6 boxes for these, 2 designs were designed by rockford TEC. All of them sounded horrible "loud", but horrible, and my old-school power series 15 dominated them in a sealed box. I took a sledge hammer to the speaker and sent pic's back to fosgate with the woofer. What a waste of $600.00 for 2. I swear my old series 1 12's from back in the day dominated them.

12-03-2009	#47 (permalink)
necessaryevil 0 dB Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 22 Rep Power: 10	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used my first attempt at a system. http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2949286/2 epic fail!!!

12-03-2009	#48 (permalink)
Sevening 130 dB Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Lincoln, NE Age: 22 Posts: 170 Rep Power: 24	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used Some Dr. Krankenstein 6x9s that came with my old car, man they were bad. Also had some Dr. Ks coaxials in the door panel, but whoever did the install glued the panel back on to the door so I couldn't get it off. __________________ Refs: RoE - HeyItsMeKyle15, Burbarry, AudioqueueHDC3, Twistedchild420 CA - Street DreamsCC, psych0ticnemes1, basscort2009, RyanM923, heyitsmekyle15, Sevening, bernser1er, TnT_Sounds

12-06-2009	#49 (permalink)
Jp-kustomz 130 dB Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: wauseon, ohio Age: 19 Posts: 125 Rep Power: 16	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used legacy 1600 watt amp cut out every two secs at 2ohms would only run at 4 n 8 __________________ 1995 olds 88 Royal 2 ten inch mofo's(2 MB Quart RWE-352 15"s soon) 1500.1 crunch amp(upgrading to 2000.1) kenwood KDC-MP642U raptor 4 g kit Jp kustomz

12-06-2009	#50 (permalink)
bromo 130 dB Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: MI Posts: 188 Rep Power: 50	Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used MTX Thunder 8000, the worst subwoofers i've ever owned they had problematic tensils on them and would break. Made me never want to use an mtx sub again.

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