What define Old School in car audio, I see lots Old School post and it's about 5 years old items...

 

1990-2000

 

I would say mid-90s and older.

 

mid 90's and older for sure.

 

That's what i was thinking...

Maybe SPL is more pre 2000 but car audio in general is more like mid 90's

 

I think it's funny to us bonafide old skoolers when somebody puts up a post about old skool gear and it's like from 2001. You can immediately tell they are under 25 years old.

 

IMO the industry took a major shift around 1995:
- Rockford changed from the BBQs to the spaceships
- Alpine went V12
- PPI lost their fins and went to the PC line
- Phoenix Gold lost their fins
- Soundstream got sold and went offshore
- In dash video appeared and people traded spending money on better sound to spending it on video.
- DbDrag got big and while it helped sales of amps and woofers, it killed SQ - the real heart of aftermarket car audio. People used to buy gear primarily to make their car sound better. DbD changed that to primarily sound louder and a bunch of the SQ only brands: Denon, ADS, Concord, Linear Power(yeah they did ok at SPL for a while) disappeared or went into obscurity.

 

I remember when seeing a woofer in a trunk of a car was never smaller then a 12" lol... and seeing a 18" in a trunk was not that big of a deal. and ALWAYS were Round!! lol anyone got a set of Pyramid Mind blowers kickin around? lol

 

I remember when seeing a carpeted (at least) sub box in a trunk or maybe a trim panel or hidden wiring was expected and seeing a bare MDF box rolling around a trunk with an amp duct-taped to the carpet was like Now it's like "Wow, check the fanciness. That guy has carpet on his box and the port is actually INSIDE the box!"

 

Old school, it seems to some at least, is whatever is not currently in production hehe.