[net.audio] Driver and car system summaries?

klein@ucbcad.UUCP (04/05/85)

There was a small flurry of discussion a while back (months) about
building your own speakers.  What I was really hoping for was getting
specific recommendations for drivers.  Has anyone gone ahead and started
their construction and have reports on drivers?  It would be very nice
to be able to pool observations instead of having all us builders
fumble in the dark or buy drivers just to test.  For this I am
interested in big living room speakers.

As a separate query, does anyone have recommendations for specific car
speakers and amps?  It's pretty easy to try out cassette decks in the
stores, but harder to evaluate speakers, and essentially impossible to
evaluate amps since most dealers don't believe they make a difference,
saying it's the watts that counts.  For an amp I think I'm looking for
something around 30-50 watts per channel, clean sound,
hopefully graceful clipping, no interference that the radio might pick up.
For speakers I think a pair in front, a pair in back.  What can be done under
these restrictions?  I'd like to keep it under $350 or so excluding the
deck itself.
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