[Shotimes] A quick one for all the aftermarket stereo guys....

[van Oss]

More watts is not necessarily about more decibels.  At least not for all of us.

Jim, at least back when I was a teenager --- the last time I paid any attention to audio matters --- the conventional wisdom was
this:  At the SAME DECIBEL OUTPUT, you got cleaner sound from a MORE powerful system played at a lower fraction of its potential
output, versus a LESS powerful system played at or near its MAX output.

Maybe audio gear has advanced so that that idea no longer carries any merit.  Maybe it was a myth even then.  Comments, anyone?

And before you make jokes about my age:  Yes, we had transistors back then.  The only tubes still in use were in Soviet subs.  Don't
ask me how I know.  :-)

Joseph van Oss


----- Original Message -----
I truly, truly don't understand why you need so many Watts to fill the interior of a car....
...A 5000W system in your tiny SHO will slowly destroy your ears just the same.