What do Audiophiles like and buy for their cars?

YAY... Excellent! Our own lil nook of the world!!..Great Initiative!

HI Ajay, Gunbir,JB, Prithviraj!

I am hardly an Audiophile but my install will be done soon... will put up the pics soon - along with detials!

Thanks! jasdeep for your insight & sorry to keep on probing but what would be a good car cd player for 20-30G. Thanks again.

Hi Neo,

Following are the two units I recommend in that price range.

Kenwood K CD01 : simple unit with bass, mid, treble tone controls, K Grade Burr Brown DA convertors excellent sound quality. Only made for Asian market and Oceania.

http://www.kenwood.com/j/products/ca...al/k-cd01.html
http://www.kenwoodaudio.com/thailand...s&Model=K-CD01

Pioneer P 80RS : excellent SQ with Burr Brown DAC, good looks vey good value for money.

http://www.pioneer.com.sg/storefront...&CatId=2,24,32

Can't think of any other good unit in this price range

Hi Sujit,

How come you see Gunbir and I don't?

Welcome to Hifi vision!

Cheers,

Ajay

Thanks mate! i really appreciate your input.Cheers

One thing more some audiophiles love to add to there present setup....a sound processor....like this one....

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-8mD7Owi...pvs=T&g=267150

it is a alpine stand alone processor can do wonder if tunned properly....

Wow! This is interesting...My Car (The Getz with the Focal) has already been introduced to this forum before I have been...Thanks Prithvi...For some of you who were curious about the amp I used , it is a pair of MTX.

Something I wanted to comment about w.r.t using Bremen as a head unit:

I certainly beleive that there ain't any Absolute "Yes and No" in music. Bremen, to me is an exceptional headunit...the most important here being the 2 words "to me". It can be different for u or Jaswinder, or Mohammed or any body else for that matter.

There were 3 primary reasons for me to choose Bremen over anything else. I had tried other top of the line units from Alpine, RF, Panasonic, and Clarion. Apart from pristine disc play I also was paranoid about exceptional radio reception. Where Bremen scored over everything else was in radio reception. There was also one more very important aspect of Bremen that one would not find in any other model.

Car audio systems often tend to sound very bright and boomy. I am not particularly a great fan of the "dhik chik" that most car audios are so capable of. Now in order for me to cut down on that and enhance the music in terms of how I like it to be I, needed phenomenal control over the various frequecies. The Bremen, for those who are not aware of is equipped with a 27 band parametric equalizer per channel. Now no other head unit did give me that.

The third, I didnt want a subwoofer to eat up all the boot space in my small car. I wanted to use a pair of components to acheive extremely tight but powerful bass...and hence the combination of Utopia and K2 Power.

I am extremely happy with the setup as it lets me hear music the way I want it. There can be nothing thats more satisfying than that...

But here's the anti-climax...I have recently invested in a HT setup that makes my car sound average...Prithvi...we got the combination spot-on....

So for all you car audio enthsiasts ... evaluate your priorities and trust your own ears. ..

What Panasonic and Clarion HU's did you compare Bremen with?

Which components are you using from Focal Utopia and K2 power line.

You can have subwoofers in the boot which can play in very small box and barely take up the space. Also using midbass driver for bass reproduction will be very tough on them.

I use a combination of Focal Utopia N6 and 165 K2P. When it comes to comparing with Bremen I had a Clarion DXZ958RMC earlier which I now use it in another car. While I would say the clarion was very good, but I find the Bremen better especially when it comes to radio reception. I dont remember the panasonic model, but I remember it was their top most in line 18 months back. I had just tried it on but again was never really impressed. I do not really count on the japs when it comes to music...be it car audio or home audio.

Good amps, although not very very highly recommended for SQ applications.

Very right, glad to hear that you are well entertained by the setup. Certainly matters the most.

Hmm, haven't listened to radio on a Bremen. Although I haven't listened to radio on much else either.

Hmm, I'm a bit of a no-equalizer freak though. I wouldn't expect good quality car audio of the kinds that you describe to go dhik-chik actually, but I'm sure you can fine tune intricately with that equalizer.

Are all 4 speakers playing full range? No bass cut on any of the speakers? Or are only the rears playing full range? And if so what are the rears, Utopia or K2? Don't they rattle a bit of the doors and the door panels when playing bass? Who installed the setup?

Can trust Prithvi to pull off something like that, surely.