Why would anyone want a 2,000 watt stereo system in an automobile?
A contestant on a national TV program, DonD, just won an $83,000 lime green SUV.
If I heard correctly it had a 2,000 watt stereo system.
My question is why would anyone want a stereo system of that power for personal use?
It doubles as a first rate passenger compartment heating system for those cold Minnesota winters.
It is an example of people wanting something pushed to the extreme. The goal in this case is almost certainly about bone pounding raw bass output that can be heard a mile away. It is an attention getter albeit an extremely obnoxious one. Lots of teenage guys dream about such a thing and frequently try to build it themselves resulting in a loud yet quite distorted sound output.
The only possible reason is to be able to play at extreme volume without distortion. That’s dumb if you ask me, but it works. That’s the same reason why they make 2000 watt home amplifiers. While you may only be listening at an average level of milliwatts, the amplifier is capable of reproducing extreme dynamic peaks that may require hundreds of watts, without distortion. You can throw that rationale out the window for a car stereo, though, because the CDs they make nowadays, with which someone may want to demonstrate the sheer volume of their system, have few dynamics in the first place. Brickwall limiting is applied to all mainstream pop/rock/R&B music during mastering. This sucks out all the life, and results in more loudness. Two kilowatts of that must be a kind of painful that I can’t even imagine.
Because then they have, like, a 2000 watt stereo. And you don’t.
My ride, however, has a one meeellion watt stereo, mwahaha.
I rool!
If they aim the speakers downward, the car takes off. It’s an underground approach to building a Flying Car[sup]TM[/sup]. 
Is it peak power or RMS? There’s a big difference.
Because that way they will be deaf before all of their friends. Think of it-25 years old, and they will never hear themselves yell, “Hey-get off my lawn!”
Probably because his friend has a 1,800 watt stereo in his car.
To which I can only say this: :rolleyes:
I like loud music as much as the next guy, but come on, that’s ridiculous. “Death by stereo” is only funny when I’m watching The Lost Boys.
If I recall what my buddy the audiophile told me, the greater the power the greater the frequency response at low volume. however by the time you get to 2 Kilowatts, I am fairly sure it is just to annoy me at the stoplight.
So that when it is 95 degrees outside and there is 90% humidity they can roll down the windows (in order to save air conditioning) so that they can prove to the general public that they have absolutely crappy taste in music and are totally clueless.
This is just hearsay, but a friend told me that Randy Moss owns a Hummer with a 10,000 watt stereo. I suppose having a loud stereo systems in one’s automobile is a status symbol among some social circles.
I saw that DonD tonight. The “Lime Green Queen,” right? Aw, she looked like she’d be happy with any special prize. Why not give her a car? She was happy, Howie was happy, he audience went nuts. Let 'em have fun.
As for the 2KW sound system, did anybody else see the Mythbusters episode where they went to a “loudest car” contest (which people simply could not enter the car without suffering personal injury), then the Mythbusters tried to break a Mercedes apart with 16 Hertz (not mega- or kilo-, but just plain single Hertz) vibrations from a homemade speaker? They managed to pop the sunroof, at least.
Hope the Lime Green Queen watched that Mythbusters! 
Thanks for comments.
Regret I missed the Mythbusters.
DonD was at a point they wanted to get rid of the green monster and the Green Queen got it.
Hope she enjoys paying the income tax bite too. :rolleyes:
I’ve always secretly wanted some seriously kickarse can-be-heard-suburbs-away sound system in a car, so I can play Gregorian chants, or some hillbilly chase music, or opera, or The Wiggles, or… or…
This is by far the worst part of the article. You can at least turn off the stereo. You can call the cops if it’s too noisy. But lime green? Ack.
Dude, man, cuz when da ladeez see me crunking it out with my lime green pimpmobile, blasting out Green Day at 80,000 decibles, in my sideways hat, oversized basketball jersey, and pants falling halfway off my ass?
Yeah, they’ll be all over me.
(What’s sad, is I just accurately described one of my friends when I went to Texas A&M. Milk-white farmboy, dressed like a retard and listened to 50 cent)
Same reason people put blue LEDs on their windscreen washer jets, attach huge skirts and spoilers to crappy hatchbacks, lower their suspension and fit 21-inch wheels, and then wonder why their car handles like shit.
Because they’re dumb.