20/20 article on loud car stereos

ABC NEWS wrote:

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Ordinary car stereos generate as much as 600 watts of sound and I thought that was plenty. But at car shows, some people want at least 10 times that.

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ABC NEWS wrote:

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Some of the car audio systems generate 170 decibels of sound, equivalent to the noise of a jet plane taking off 25 feet in the distance. What's the appeal? Drivers told us it's a hobby just like arts and crafts.

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ABC NEWS wrote:

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Sony told us the advertisement was tongue in cheek, and they may change the tone. But other companies have run ads saying their products will "shake the living, wake the dead," and "annoy neighbors."

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boardinbum wrote:

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"Solutions

Do not approach or attempt to reason with motorists in boom cars. Most of them are belligerent. When possible, take down their license plate number and call the police. In communities where the police pull over boom cars, often they find alcohol, drugs and sometimes weapons in the vehicle. In a few cases, drivers have outstanding warrants for their arrest. "

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tcss] wrote:

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I've been under the dash of a car most of the day. "BoardinBum's" thread was a joke right? Right? RIGHT????

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John Stossel, the reporter who did the 20/20 piece, is a muckraker.  His stories are to incite and fire up the audience and are extremely one-sided.  That's about as much as I can say about his journalistic integrity.

The group who compiled the advertisements are exactly the same way.  Put page after page of ammunition in front of the slathering mob and you'll be sure to get some reaction.  The big problem is this:  the hordes who are allowing themselves to be incited by this propaganda are too narrow-minded to see the whole picture.  The education and pedigrees they are so proud to display in their resumes seems to justify their name-callling of a group they don't know anything about.  Thugs!  Criminals! 

But they show their real lack of intelligence when they infer any kind of real meaning in advertisements.  They certainly should know that ads just serve a purpose to get a prospective customer's attention...not unlike the articles and stories that condemn the advertisers for doing just that.  These people will be quick to write a letter to the editor of their local newspaper or to their congressman based on a one-sided, misinformed article in itself without hearing the other side of the argument.   

Yet, these irate upstanding proper citizens who are so victimized by the car audio industry are the same ones who will not think twice about the pollution they spew all over the earth with their gas-guzzling Hummers, powerboats and private airplanes.  It's all a matter of whether it fits into their perfect world, and whether they can profit from it.  These are the types of people journalists like Stossel like to fire up.  The Moral Majority.  Just like the ads that are criticized, this type of yellow journalism is all about ratings, market share and profit.

Immoral Hypocrites would be a more befitting name for them. 

I see kids and not-so-young adults opening their eyes to the mathematical part of the hobby and embracing concepts that they knew little or nothing about.  I see teamwork, competition and building a value system.  I see hands that are working with wood and electronics; those are not idle hands, hypocrites.  Those are hands and minds that are learning, teaching, evaluating results and having fun in the process.

i love the sound of music and i love the way it feels even more and i understand that some people dont like loud music but dont you think there are better things to b***h about.like the old man that flicks his cigerett bud out the window (fiber glass takes allmost 10 years to disolve)and not in his ashtray.or drive thoes beat up cars with faild inspection poring black smoke into the air i breath.and dont forget about the old drunk peeing on the tree(not to good for the tree).what about grandma who lets her little dog out to sh** on her walk and forgets to pick it up everytime so little kids can play in.THEY NEED TO GET REAL and look at the things they are doing to the world.  o.k. some of us will loose our hearing i under stand that it dosent hurt any one else.ask them what happened to our ozone layer ?music dident do that !they know what did because they were a part of it.and they worry about bass,my son is growing up with gloable warming because of all the antifreez they let drain into the watersystems or all the hairspray she needed to stand her hair for beehive hair style.in 200 years they have destroyed this planet,so lets worry about a handa with a 4 cyl (compared to there extreamly large inefficent engins in there old cars) and high spl sound.

Im not saying all old people are the ones bitching about loud cars because some of them grew up doing the same exact thing with mustangs muscle cars and hot rods.  But the majority of the people that are complaining are people who know nonthing about us.  What makes us want to have loud stereos loud exhaust.  My stereo is very loud but i know when to turn it down.  My exhaust is loud but it is still under 95db i can pass emissions in any state.  My car is not hurting anything its these old farts complaining about stuff they dont understand and and what the onesided media tells them to think. 

Old farts and one sided media are really starting to piss me off.

Along with that some punk *** kid in columbia SC took a reporter on a private tour to show him all the cars that had loud stereos and every car that was involved in street racing.  Im not saying i agree with street racing but alot of people just come out to show their cars.