Quote Originally Posted by b6onboost View Post
Are you really arguing that a 2.1 setup with solely a pair of front components and a rear sub is the best setup for a car?

Car Audio has been a hobby of mine for 10 years, I respectfully don't need a forum to tell me what sounds good. My current system supports dolby digital surround and has 12 speakers total. Sounds great. And I know for a FACT that if I fade all of the speaker signal to the front so I have no rear output, it sounds worse than having balanced front and rear output.

NoVA
I am not arguing that it is the best set up in a car, but if you are solely listening to music, and everything is installed correctly it will be hard to beat a 2.1 setup. Adding anything else on top of that is essentially just overkill, music is recorded in 2 channels, whats the point in having more? Having dolby digital and 12 speakers is great (and I don't doubt your set up sounds good, would not mind knowing what you are running) if you are watching movies in the car, but for music its pointless.

I realize that some people like to have a "full" sound, and believe that if installed correctly it can sound good. But for simplicity sake (talking music only here) you can't beat a well setup 2.1 system for SQ, but that's my opinion.

NoVA