The Loudest Car Audio - A Competition

"...they are nothing like the trunk-rattling thugs most people see at traffic lights. They are louder."

Ben Paynter writes: (from this week's Kansas City Pitch, written in large part over the Thanksgiving weekend at our kitchen table...)

Mechanics sneak nips from longnecks. Others clench cigarettes between their lips as they twist wires and pump bass-heavy tracks from Outkast and Eminem, which grow louder with each component added to the electrical daisy chain. A green Ford Metropolitan, lifted on 6-foot wheels and 5-ton axles, rises above the sea of polished metal. The truck has a detachable, touch-screen CD player, three amps and six 15-inch speakers wired to eight car batteries. A black van from Moberly, Missouri, blasts test tones that trigger car alarms -- its open rear doors reveal a cargo of amps stacked like shipping boxes. Some cars have enough raw power to torch amplifiers, shatter glass windshields, rend metal.

Welcome to the 17th annual Tuner Jam: the largest, loudest car-stereo competition on the planet. Stereo geeks from around the country converge here once a year, morphing their cars into the world's most powerful portable boomboxes, pitting sound system against sound system to find out whose is loudest.  Read more...

Comments

[Joe Gedville]

What is the loudest car system yall have heard? (In decibles)

i have 4 L 7's in the back of my blazer extreme

I have 4 l5 12 with a bd1500 and it hits a 163 decimals in the back of my 99 eclpise