I swear one of these guys drove down the road behind my apartment last night. at least fifty feet away, all my windows closed, and still stuff was rattling on the bookshelves.
But does all that wattage actually make the music sound better?
(Okay, the 1812 Overture would benefit, but…)
Well say Justin Timberlake was blasting out of the speakers, and you stuck your head in the car and instantly went deaf. That might be considered “sounding better”.
I would love to, just once, hear one of those cars playing Shatner’s “Lucy in the Sky” on Lakeshore Drive.
Yeah? Well MY amp can deliver 1900 watts** PMS!**
So what? It also goes south at the same time every month.
And, yes, my friend’s system does play real music, and rather well I might add.
As to the decible dragsters, a single short duration tone pulse doth not a high performance audio system make. That’s like a drag race over a quarter yard. Woo fricking hoo.
Yeah, but does it go to “eleven?”
Should have been on Mass Ave in Boston a couple of months ago. My brother-in-law was in town with his tricked-out, over-stereoed Honda. I had to borrow it to run some errands, so I decided to blast Music for Airports. I called it x-treme ambient. 
They’ve found it. It was stumbled upon during OPERATION BROWN NOISE but the resulting mess was so horrible from its use that it was secretly banned by the Geneva Convention.
I guess if he had a post count of 4000+ he’d be down with the in-crowd.
This thread reminds me of an old poster – perhaps an ad. It was called The Revenge of the Million Watt Speakers. Anyone remember?
Sigh. And yet, somehow, my plan for accoustically triggered limpet mines that could be scattered throughout the streets still remains without government funding.
BTW, what is the latest on “the brown sound”? I’m afraid I haven’t been keeping up with my conspiracy theory/nonlethal riot control reading lately.
Well I guess I now add to my wide brush stereotyping list:
The larger the tires the smaller the brain the bigger the ego the smaller the dick.
The louder the noise the smaller the brain the bigger the ego the smaller the dick.
I bet if the military created this as a weapon, it would be declared illegal under he “rules” of war.
So when these contests happen, does Chris Cornell come out of his apartment and bob his head until the car falls apart?
I think I have just read a description of hell! Dopers, if any of you ever feel the need to torture me to death or insanity (the unpleasant kind, that is), just picture sticking me inside one of those cars, locking the doors, and hitting the remote.
A shuddering
CJ
Okay, I guess I’ve got the minority view here, but I think those cars are completely fucking awesome! If I had $80,000 to spare, I’d definetly get one myself.
So basicaly these guys are dickless wonders? 
More than a waste of money, doesn’t it sound kinda dangerous?
I’m all about nice cars but if I had $80,000 to spend on a sound system I think I would spend at most $5,000 with sound proofing and all and take the other $75,000 and invest it in a yatch(sp?) or a house or something. Seriously $75,000 can buy a nice ass Escalade.