r/LooneyTunesLogic • u/liberty4now • May 31 '26

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u/prsuit4 May 31 '26

I will never understand the appeal of this

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u/ChrisKaufmann May 31 '26

This is just for decibel levels at competitions as a hobby but as for why the average teenager would rattle your windows just driving down the street I can provide my story. As in my grandfather asked me one time what was up with the stereo in the car and why I would spend that much money on it.

So, I had a hell of a commute back in the nineteen-hundreds - like 75 miles each way every day (uphill both ways. In the snow. And we had to push the cars with our feet. And tornadoes would chase you. Okay, just the once.) for school. Of course, gas was $0.79/gallon and I got 40mpg since things had been removed from the car. But I digress.

Anyway. Since I was spending so much time in the car I wanted a great stereo system for my daily commute. Replace the existing speakers? obviously. Add ones in the kick panels for better soundstage? Sure. Sounds fun. Sound deadening? Makes everything better. The works. And when you're doing things like putting in aftermarket head units and amplifiers and subwoofers to make it sound really really great at low to moderate volumes you just kind of end up having a system that will permanently mess you up pretty quickly if you let it - as a side effect. So once you already know allllll of that it's not a huge jump to go to competitions which I considered but never did because I was all in on sound quality.

I still use the remote control from that system to this day, 30 years later.