£4000 Stereo

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tuffer

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8,849 posts

266 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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Just wondering, people seem happy to pay £4,000 or more for a stereo in their car but probably have a system in their house costing far less than that. I am sure there are plenty of people who also have very expensive home setups. To be fair if I was speccing up a new car I would probably go for it and yet I have a bunch of Sonos speakers at home and am more than happy with the results. I know we spend a lot of time in our cars but it really does seem to e a bit of a rip off.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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tuffer said:
Just wondering, people seem happy to pay £4,000 or more for a stereo in their car but probably have a system in their house costing far less than that. I am sure there are plenty of people who also have very expensive home setups. To be fair if I was speccing up a new car I would probably go for it and yet I have a bunch of Sonos speakers at home and am more than happy with the results. I know we spend a lot of time in our cars but it really does seem to e a bit of a rip off.
Always confused me this one. I have a high end set up at home and it sounds great, but in the cars I will just deal with whatever is supplied as no matter how much you spend a car system will never sound like real musicians playing in front of you... it can't due to obvious placement restrictions on the speakers etc.

ambuletz

10,690 posts

180 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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I always thought it weird when some people spend £300+ on a bluetooth speaker for their home when they've probably got a quality system in their house, all they need is some cables for £1.

Truckosaurus

11,183 posts

283 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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"Recommended by Porsche" - I bet it is!

Also £2500 for some back seat entertainment, It would be cheaper to offer the kids a grand a piece to just STFU.

KrazyIvan

4,341 posts

174 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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Truckosaurus said:
"Recommended by Porsche" - I bet it is!

Also £2500 for some back seat entertainment, It would be cheaper to offer the kids a grand a piece to just STFU.
I wonder how many 911 owners, with unusable back seats, tick that without really thinking about it? hehe

swisstoni

16,852 posts

278 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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I think there was a £4k upgrade system available for the Range Rover. No thanks ever so much.

J4CKO

41,287 posts

199 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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Some people have a lot of money and want the best of everything, on the price of the car it isnt that much I expect.

Loads of older cars out there for those who love music, you can get a Lexus LS 430 with the Mark Levinson sound system which is pretty good for a couple of grand, there are Jags with B and O systems, Mercs with Harman Kardon and various stuff with Bose for the same money, the experts say they dont compare to a bespoke system but I have heard a couple and been very impressed. Volvos have some brilliant systems as well.

Dave Hedgehog

14,541 posts

203 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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if i recall when the RS6 came out it had a 6k audio upgrade option biggrin

yep its still there 6300 now

plus 11k for the performance pack with a starting price of 80k

as fantastic as they are they are you would have to be taking meth to pay those prices

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Saturday 4th March 13:07

Matttrakker

630 posts

146 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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When I was growing up and we were all fitting kenwood and pioneer systems to our vws and 205s. The improvement was massive over stock. But the originals were awful, some of the kit that comes in cars nowadays is very impressive as standard.

keegs111

164 posts

150 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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swisstoni said:
I think there was a £4k upgrade system available for the Range Rover. No thanks ever so much.
There is, it's closer to £5k, meridian reference system. It's awesome and I wouldn't have the car without it!

If you like music, well worth the money.

SWoll

18,207 posts

257 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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I totally understand why people would add a £4-5k stereo as an option on a car with £100k price tag.

Without a doubt most weeks I'll spend more time listening to music in my car than I do at home, and for someone who does a reasonable yearly mileage that adds up to many hours of listening.

Makes a lot more sense to me than adding carbon fiber bits or expensive paint.

ging84

8,829 posts

145 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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only place a lot of people listen to music is in thier car
and those who do choose to listen to music at home and can afford a new Porsche and to spec a £4k stereo upgrade, probably also have a fair nice sound system at home too.


W00DY

15,467 posts

225 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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Car systems can sound really nice, obviously not as good as a well thought out home system, but you can be sure your expensive car audio will have been designed with placement, balance and acoustics of the space in mind.

At home you have to consider the neighbours and time pressures often mean you find yourself rarely sitting down to listen to music, but in a car there are fewer distractions and you can really enjoy it. I probably listen to more music in the car than anywhere else despite having a decent stereo at home. Certainly all my current favourite CDs are in the car.

4 grand is a lot of money though, I'd have to be very rich to consider it.

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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Having never bought brand new I've always looked out for cars with upgraded /long ticked options list.

I've had one or two big std stereos and lived with it conversely have had Bose system and it was worlds apart. Given I'd spend 2-3 hours every single day in the car having better quality sound is good. Even more so when the original owner took the depreciation hit for the option.

Troubleatmill

10,210 posts

158 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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W00DY said:
Car systems can sound really nice, obviously not as good as a well thought out home system, but you can be sure your expensive car audio will have been designed with placement, balance and acoustics of the space in mind.

At home you have to consider the neighbours and time pressures often mean you find yourself rarely sitting down to listen to music, but in a car there are fewer distractions and you can really enjoy it. I probably listen to more music in the car than anywhere else despite having a decent stereo at home. Certainly all my current favourite CDs are in the car.

4 grand is a lot of money though, I'd have to be very rich to consider it.
And the lovely sound of trucks passing, tyre noise, rain hitting the windscreen etc etc.
A nice sounding system in a car is... nice.
But. £4K.

swisstoni

16,852 posts

278 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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keegs111 said:
swisstoni said:
I think there was a £4k upgrade system available for the Range Rover. No thanks ever so much.
There is, it's closer to £5k, meridian reference system. It's awesome and I wouldn't have the car without it!

If you like music, well worth the money.
I do have the car without it and I seem to be ok. hehe

thebraketester

14,192 posts

137 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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Shame they don't do a "noise cancelling" type system that mutes the road noise. Or do they?

dvshannow

1,580 posts

135 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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think the prices are not that great value for the car systems, but a car is one of the places where you have time to listen to music and also are able to turn it up not to crazy levels but the volumes that are tough in a house.

but yes I bet there are some with 4k systems in their Porsche and sonus at home. I noticed though that few speccing up 911 GTS are getting the 4k option most are getting the 1k bose and that's on a 100k+ car so its not as many as you would think

AndStilliRise

2,295 posts

115 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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thebraketester said:
Shame they don't do a "noise cancelling" type system that mutes the road noise. Or do they?
Great idea!

dave1409

218 posts

177 months

Saturday 4th March 2017
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I have a fairly high-end setup at home. I am not sure I would pay that much for an OEM option. A lot of them can be significantly out-performed by a cheaper after-market system, as long as you go to the right place.
I have an aftermarket system in my MINI (sadly I will be selling it with the MINI fairly soon). It cost a bit less than £1000, but most people who have the same system say it is much better than the HK option. A music producer said that CDs playing through it sound just the same as they do through his studio monitors. I am not sure I believe that without hearing something played through his studio monitors, but someone who had the Dolby ProLogic option in a Volvo V70 said it was better than that.
I would not spend more than that on a car audio system without a decent demonstration of it installed in the same make/model of vehicle.
I don't mind paying for things as long as I know they are better (at least to me) than the cheaper options.