The BEST Car Subwoofer of the 1980's?
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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1983 TEI Electronics Model 49-250
Extra Bass Woofer and matching Booster
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1983?? The design of that thing is WAY ahead of its time! That's honestly impressive. Remember what factory car stereos sounded like in the 80s? For $80, this thing would have actually made a distinct difference with the kind of music most people were listening to at the time. Major Wife Approval Factor as well, for folks that are into that sort of thing. Easy to hide away, not overbearing. Really cool piece of lost history there!
I agree, that was way ahead of its time. my first thought when i saw it was the bose wave radio. i bet you were the cool kid on the block with the 8 track radio if you had that sub. I kinda want one, even though I have 2 8's and a 10 in my truck. lol
@rhkips giving me flashbacks to when I first got my 1988 f150. Had the original speakers in it and I took them out and sold them in the garage sale. They sounded absolutely terrible. Upgraded to cheap Walmart speakers that beat factory into the ground
@@rhkips big D!!! List history!??? Guy ,please do a bit about Hollywood sound labs.
Hollywood invented the extended pole ,bumped back plate. Not kicker !!!
Hollywood has the first 1 ohm amps. Hollywood has the first vacuum formed cones. Fiberglass kevlar cones? Not digital designs. It was Hollywoods reference woofers in 1993. First dual 6 ohm subs. Oh ,I forgot to mention: Hollywood sound labs manufactured over 50 %0of the marketplace. Mtx, Rockford,velodyne ,boss,rainbow and many more major name brands ... Hollywood sound Labs manufactured OEM, and under their own name branded Hollywood sound labs, audio gods, Hollywood digital, excursion brands. ..0h ,they also had the first bass tubes !!! And to this day their designs are copied and patients stolen.
I was expecting your neighbors to call the cops from all that bass 😆🔊🔊
Quad-Box got nothin on this 3"
My ear drums burst 😢
😂
I had a car audio business from 1998 to 2005. It was called" Good vibrations audio" and our slogan was " come see Watts shaking" ....
That is a dream job! Cheers from Australia 👍
@@dragan3290
It was at first for 7 years in a good shop
10 years in a poorly managed shop it could become a nightmare the boss was all about money and did not pay worth a fuc* got sick of his collage snobby ass
And walked out on him. Guy didn't know how to run his shop nor did he care about his help. I would rather sit at home then deal with a jackass like that.
Awesome.... my local shop had bumper stickers saying, "if your mirrors ain't shakin, you've been takin' 😂
I about died with the clip of the car exploding. Well done. Lol
i think the people in the car about did
@302hobronco the 2 guys in the car about died too.. interesting fact, the explosion left both men deaf from the pressure of the explosion. It was not car audio related. Iirc it was an alternative fuel delivery system that exploded..
Hell yeah it is, I've got 8 of them running off of a Pyramid booster/EQ!
Boom!!
Need a Realistic eq/booster for ultimate sq😂😂😂
Hey Big D.... Make another video with this enclosure and a Tang Band 3" sub😎✌️@@wal2
🎶I got 8 threes bumpin in the trunk,
When I turn the bass up you know it bump🎶 when Dee test my amp I get crunk, all my threes in the trunk gon stunt🎶
That's a meelion dolla song right dere 🤣
Sitting on the rear deck of your car lol
I had a pair of those in my Yugo way back in 1988! Thumped so hard the vibration pushed me down the road! Hit 88mph and here i am today!
Those jigga watts got ya!!!
Sounds like you drove a delorean.....get it, 88 mph
😂
They sure as hell weren't playin' around back in the 80's!
Imagine the meetups and flexing that bass.
I didn't start hearing systems on the street until around 1989, but it was still pretty rare. I still remember the Low rider pickup truck in my neighborhood, Probably bumpin 10s.
Just watching this video on my way home from work in my work car (factory radio), cars next to me at traffic lights were rolling up their windows and looking for the source of the thunderous bass put out by this BeAsT!
My uncle used to have one of these when I was a kid. I've truly never seen another. He had it in his yugo funny enough.
That was a factory option from Yugo. 😂
That was the biggest woofer that would fit in a Yugo! 😂
@@Tallchevy350 yep. Can't complain that the car would run down the road but he always had to park on hills in case it had to be started with a clutch drop. His personal Fun old toy I guess 🤣
@@chriskennedy8525 awesome! used to work with a guy who turned his engine off to coast down hills - on his birthday we blu-tacked a spirit level to his dash as his present! 😄
i couldn't stop laughing during the extra side clip videos during testing.
thank you, i love it.
10 of these lined up in the rear dash of a 75 Caprice on a 50watt sparkomatic amp and a pioneer super tuner 2 knob radio plus sparkomatic eq now you getting somewhere 👍
My brother had one of those sitting on the back dash of his 1986 Buick Skylark. He got T-boned and the car spun around a few times and that thing went flying. I found it about 100 feet down the road from the accident and we tested it later. Still worked.
😮
Dwiz funny he said oooooo we get a whole watt more I died 🤣 😂
Totally remember stuff like that from the 80s! Those early days for car audio were interesting to say the least!
Those Japanese, even their low power stuff was unusually well made. I still rock a mid 80's Panasonic combo unit on the back deck, 3 glorious watts per channel but the tuner pulls in every station and it has a soft touch tape deck. They may have made some cheap stuff but it was never junk. That and being outside for 10 years hasn't hurt it a bit.
This little amp is beautiful.
Parts express has replacement woofer for it. 😉
I would put a nice 3” Dayton Audio or Tangband in it.
@@Bassotronics Tangband for the win!!
🤣🤣🤣
@@joeyholthusen6495 it would be better to buy a modern sub.
@@91CavGT5 That's what I was think then wire in a cheater amp it would be amazing.
it's awesome that our generation got to see the start of audio and how far we have come. Always appreciate what you do Big D!
I remember being a poor dude in a 1976 Bright Orange ] AMC Gremlin in 1982 / Yes it was my first car given to me by my father after passing my DMV . test . It had a 360 V8 and he thought it was cool and it matched my 8 ft. surf board that fit on the top like it was meant to be there because it was as long as the car . So to Get to the 4 Real / I was sporting a Mustang AM FM with a cassette player that had NO rewind function . Also had a set SPARK-O-MATIC 6in round doubles in the doors and 6in ovals in the back . I also had a China made 10 lever equalizer that flashed 2 green pulse bars with the beats . I was SO COOL . Those speaker lasted about a season and crumbled in the California sun . Dude I am 56 and Still have the Surf Board .
that grocery store clip made me spit out my coffee.......thanks! :P
Sorry!
@@wal2 no, no yer not! :D I think I saw these at Jhonny's Speed and Sound in Buena Park back in the day!
Considering most stereos from that era sounded like two soup cans tethered by a string, I could see this being an upgrade.
next a video on replacing surrounds....you can get them and its would make good content
Yea boi I love the cheesiness of old school stuff 😊
I mean, how can you not love these?
You almost expected those " real testimonials " to start with " I never thought I would be one to have a story to share .." .
It clearly said it was made in Japan but ok
@@Valverde713 And your point is???????????????
@@Styphoryte it's pretty straightforward and self explanatory
Nostalgia struck the second I saw the thumbnail. Thanks for covering this time capsule gem!
The big audio magazines that I got back in the mid 80's was Radio Shack, Crutchfield, JC Whitney and of course DAK! The 80's was a really incredible time for audio. Even cheap stuff was really expensive! but it was almost all innovative. What a great time to be a teenager!
I remember in either 86 or 87 I was getting tons of pyramid goodies from a black and white catalog that I somehow got a hold of from a place called the wholesale House in Hicksville Ohio
I remember them too!!!!!!
Best time for audio was 89/90s
Fun checking the mailbox every day for new catalogs or magazines to drool over
This is exactly why I come here. Never heard of this and loved it!!!!
I recently installed the 6 x 3 pioneer wx010 powered sub in my car, and was floored at how much bass that tiny unit put out. It pulls so little power that the instructions (and crutchfield confirmed) that you are to power it via fuse tap.
Fits under the dash, easiest install ever. I had no idea that small subs were a thing back in the day.
@@No_Use_For_A_Name1981 you’re out of your mind to pay $200+ for that thing. There are FAR better options for less money, even if space is limited
Here's the thing. Yeah, it was 180$ on Amazon. There's a whole pile of combo amp and low profile subs available for 50$ less, and larger, and probably louder.
But, I'm not amplifying my doors and rear deck. I put decent JBL speakers that took lower RMS in, just because I wasn't interested in going all out with a system again.
The pioneer unit is expensive, but it's also adding just enough more low range and sound quality, and isn't drowning everything else out. So in my case, it was a really great option to finish out upgrading sound.
I'm saying all this as someone who's had a couple really nice, loud, multi amp systems over the years and generally have high standards for the SQ aspect.
I picked 8 watts, nailed it! (At least in one test 😂)
Dude that is hilarious! I wonder how many of them they sold.
What an awesome find...In pristine condition.
3 amps of current, what a beast! Even though I'm in my late 40s, I still miss having some decent bass on my car stereo though. One of these days I'll get around to recapping my PPI2100 amp from the 90s so I can put my 10" into my "new" truck that I've had for 8 years.
Man I enjoy these flea-market equipment video! Thumbing through J.C. Whitney catalogs every night as a teenager, I always wanted to build a complete system from that kind of old junk. Pyramid and the like just to see if I could force the stuff to sound decent now that I have nearly 30 years of car audio experience. 😂 I'll send any unboxed old school goodness if I come across anymore. It's getting harder and harder to come by these days.
Find those old school kraco truck box speakers with a passive radiator. 6 inch driver and 8 inch radiator with a tweeter on top. I believe they sold for around 100 bucks a pair in the late 80s early 90s. Think model was kraco FX95 truck box speakers
FX95
I thoroughly enjoyed this old school test! Brings me back to simpler times. :)
should have been hooked up to a 300000 w rms amp to see how it bump lol
Thats a great candidate for the how far can we make the voice coil launch series.
You should throw a tang band mini 3 inch woofer or a Dayton audio one and see how it does with a modern speaker that would be really cool to see
Seller wrapped package with evidence tape .
This is what is known as " foreshadowing " .
You tryna say I killed it with this video? 🤣
Just saying it needs some white chalk around it , fam .
I LOVE your humor vignettes and little that go with it!
You have 2 channels!!! More content from you is CRAZY
That little thing looks awesome imo.
Nostalgic factor from the 80’s is a 8/10. Some dancing LEDs would have definitely made it 10/10. I’m sure a modern class D amplifier with modern high excursion mini-woofer works blow this out of the water but you have to remember this in the context of early 80s
It's a good thing that you didn't pump DJ Magic Mike through that thing because it would have exploded. 😅
Magic Mike woulda tore them speakers up
@@jimmymccants770 I know that's right
@@locotrucker46 holy shit..lol DJ Magic Mike...now that's old school bro...much respect lol do you remember Miami Quad? About 8 yrs ago I met a guy from Ga...was a firefighter named Danny. .later found out he was Danny D from Miami Quad lol
I used to go watch magic Mike at electric avenue in downtown Orlando.... I think it was around 1986
@@lancwbrown1970 that's awesome. I bet it was a cool experience.
Car audio's version of the bose wave radio. 😂😂😂
Awesome. That DAK advertisement with the KLH tuner cassette on the other page. I had that!
Impressed as to how much effort was put into "trying" to make the sub/enclosure as realistic as possible. The magnet was impressive too. Funny the tuning was around 140Hz, but the filter buttons were at or below it! LOL. Surprised that even with those 2 large amp chips, probably operating in bootstrap mode only did around 10 watts rms into 4 ohms. I was hoping to see the massive power draw using your Fluke remote "amp clamp"! You would have had to wrap the power wire around the clamp twice to attempt to fool the ammeter to get it off zero amps! LOL. That was good.
That is 100% something you would have found in a Warshawsky catalog!! Love it!
I’ve never heard of that catalog but just looked it up and that was JC Whitney to I guess those outside of the Chicago area?
@wal2 pretty much. The company had several names throughout the years and even through the 80s they still used both names. I think in the late 90s they dropped the Warshawsky name when they closed the original storefront in Chicago.
I was 9 years old when this was new and I would have salivated having this then.
Oh my... that DAK catalog takes me back. My dad and uncle would order stuff from there. I liked reading the founder's stories on product evaluation. I think I bought something for my car in 1984.
Yeah man they were awesome!
Ah the Drew Andrew Kaplan catalog.
Loved those.
You had to pick through them very carefully 'cause there was plenty of dross in it. I had decent luck really. Probably the best operating item was a 15" dual-wound home subwoofer with an adequate speaker, crossover and a decent enclosure. Not audiophile grade but it filled my teenage bedroom plenty well to rattle shelves and be heard outside in the back yard with my window closed.
Today I still have a few items in storage but I'd doubt they are of any use.
Those enclosed deck speakers were part of the crossover to the larger subwoofer enclosures we have now. Of coure, we all started using our house speakers in the car first.
It's impressive what Sony did with their DSX GS series headunits with built in amps. They're rated at 100watts max X4 and 45 watts RMS X4 but hit 56 watts X4 on each channel at 4 ohms.
Wow DAK! Man I used to get so excited when I was a kid every time a new one would show in the mail.
Someone scanned and put many up on archive.org. A true blast from the past!
Aw NICE I had one of these as a kid in the early 90's. I used to power it with my walkman. It wasn't too bad for that
That booster case looks just like the Clarion OEM amps that came in my '85 RX7 GSL.
Sounds better than my 1000 watt under seat sub woofer.
For the time that thing was cool as heck. If you had that thing, I am sure you were the "guy with the good stereo"
Should put a new model 3” sub in that old style housing, nostalgia 😁
Thats a sick little oldscool gaget
Dude had me laughing when he put up the store shaking 😂
i remember these, they're pretty good mini sub box if your looking to have a sound system but in a small scale if you have a small car or truck with limited space. i install these on my friend el camino which was a nice set up. two 6x9 with build in tweakers by kenwood, two kenwood 5inch speakers and a pair of these mini sub box behind the car seat.
It would be fun to get on Parts Express and find a nice replacement for it with a nice rubber surround and heck it probably have better specs than this speaker so it would be fun to retest it! 👍👍
This small woofer do his job. I can here the difference. First you play only your speaker then with the Subwoofer. No forget. In the 80's don't have the normal speaker so many bass sane your new one...
I like you show that. 😎👍
I had an 84 Nissan 4 x 4. This would’ve been totally dope in that little truck since it was so small.
I love this retro tech, real mecanical buttons
I heard dayton audio makes a replacement woofer for this super powerful 3 inch ground shaking woofer, it'll absolutely destroy everything within 2 miles radius with how low it can go
I had one similar to these back in the day. But it was 250 watts and had a 6.5" woofer before they were cool. Lol. It was called a "Power Mouse" 🐀🐀🐀. It was made with wood instead of plastic though. And had a nice t-line style box with the amp and everything built in. Had led lights that flashed like a vu meter. Lol.
Loves this one… guys these days have no idea what it took to make bass back in the days
I was in the 90s car sub era but this is awesome to see.
LMAO exploding car got me good one man good one great video. By the way, you won’t believe this, but my father found me one of those exact systems new in box practically with a whole bunch of stuff from Salvation Army and I was coming back in the 90s when I just started college. Had the matching booster and everything. I always thought it was a novel and I may still have it around the house. I don’t know. I never took it too seriously, I did hook a small boss amp up to it one time just for laughs and giggles
I would have bought it on its good looks alone!
Soooo beautiful especially the amplifier.... Love it 😍.
I really want this for my 93 toyota camry
I love the wool sound pad loosely shoved in the box. We know big bass is possible with the right small driver and an insulated, ported enclosure. Just look at some of the great little speakers BOSE has made over the years.
Man its a great thing you didn't pump some old school freestyle like Johnny O through that thing or it would've blown up
Love those two little mosfets. That's all it needed 😮
Cool gear as always you should upgrade the speaker and test again
Reminds me of the old 70's pioneer stuff!!! Huge in Puerto Rico!!!
I had one of these in a 75 mustang under the dash,thanks for the memory,back then it wasn't a bad idea,12 watts was a lot then! I have tons of old audio buyers guides if you want them,along with 70s and 80s Playboy magazines,lol
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For what it is, it’s actually amazing. I’m surprised it lasted that long with its 40 year old surrounds.
Perfect for kids power wheels ! It is super cool looking item
That's cool bro.. where we are now from where we come from is always awesome to see. Thank you 👍
He was the house DJ at one of our first Orlando hip hop clubs called electric avenue in 1986 or so... I don't think he had founded his company yet which was called cheetah records... But the hip hop scene in Orlando was so small back then so that made it a really cool time because we all kind of knew each other
I’m sure these are nothing compared to modern tech but I dig the style. Tiny thing looks good at least
And today we use 2inch Bluetooth portable speakers that are awesome it's a like a revive of that thing
reminds me of the factory "subwoofer" in my dad's 1986 toyota pickup... it was a little cube behind the passenger seat and basically did nothing haha.
! Got to Give it to Japan for that Amp construction. Compared to todays Flimsy Plastic !
I was running 18-inch black widow drivers 4 of them in my Malibu station wagon.
For how old that thing is, I knew that the surround was either going to be rotted or break apart as soon as it played. 25 watts is low enough and when I saw that the dyno only said 8, I couldn’t hold my breath anymore from laughing.
Not even Dick Riculous could say anything about it. Lol
Surprisingly enough I have a Dodge 6x9 that's supposedly 15`w 4ohms and it's indestructible for my receivers. I've put it through 100w and it still won't blow.
Oh for shizzle! My friend had one of those on his dash that made the kraco and 6x9's sound pretty 👍
Thats really cool. I love retro electronics! Unfortunately i gave my old pioneer tape deck,amp and Eq away! And various other electronics. Im an idiot!!!
OMG! I had one of those back in the late 80s. Never hooked it up though.
Hey, not bad at all taking in consideration the age of the "mega-bassss-explosssion-system". Cool to see that!
sounds like a bass harmonica..i love it..
FWIW the EQ/Amp looks to have audio amplifier ICs and not discrete transistors. Each is rated for something like 5.8W so running them in a BTL configuration gives the 12W nominal output power.
I sooo want some of these i miss them so much i had 3 of these in a set the middle one was a mid an they where amazing not really a 12 but was good sounding like the base connon of the 90s
I didnt get the bass boost thing you had id love that alone i bet it makes it even better i got my used at a good will like stire in phx AZ
Gotta admit, this thing is really cool, even if it is quite niche.
No matter what, still a good preformance of that old little speaker! It's not a big sub, but still, Not too bad in my opinion!
This test was awesome!! Lol. Love this old equipment testing
As a kid in the 80's, i would collect little speakers like that 3 incher lol and dream that some day i would design a giant 12 basically a scaled up version of that little 3. Now look at my icon...still havent tested them yet, yup them i got 2 12s wooo...
Actually impressive excursion on that 3". And 40yo foam should be replaced anyway. And that dyno test was everything I expected.
You should refoam that 3" just for posterior stake.
DAK had some wild stuff.
For all their crap, my mom used her DAK bread machine for around 20 years.
The bass booster is cool, love the finish on it. As for the speaker, tell me it doesn't hold up today?
reminds me of one time i found an old set of 90s computer speakers in a trash can including a similarly hilarious 3" subwoofer. wouldnt say it was designed to really add bass but just add SOME kind of low end for more warmth.