garbo41610 wrote:Roberto-RX2.5 wrote:a chain is only as strong as its weakest link to have a good speaker set up you need 4 goof speakers that would be like having surround sound but only having 2 speakers instead of all of them that's pretty stupid really :/
Not really, no. A lot (if not most) of high quality car audio SQ orientated installs only focus on the front stage, as well as sub bass etc obviously. If they do install rear speakers, they are generally faded out so no sound is coming out of them when they are the only person in the car and when they have passengers in the rear, they fade them back in slightly.
The reason being, the rear stage has a tendency to "pull" the staging of the sound too far to the rear, so when you are listening to music it sounds like the music is coming from slightly behind you. Where do you stand at a concert? Facing the stage. Hence, you need a similar set up in your car. Surround sound is mainly for movies etc.
+1. I couldn't be bothered typing that out.
