Do you put as much effort into your Car Audio?

A well-tuned Mercedes turbodiesel engine at highway speed is all I really want to hear out of my car. Just as well since the speaker wiring in my '84 300CD is original. Not even a modern head unit and new speakers have done much good for anything other than talk radio and Bluetooth phone calls.

Yes have Mark Levinson !!

No. I had a real nice system stolen from my car (they were nice enough to unscrew everything and not leave a mess). A week later there were nose and handprints on the side window from whoever stole it looking to see if had my insurance take care of it. It's not worth it unless it comes with the car.

As Timrhu stated, I listen primarily to talk radio.

All the best,
Nonoise

In the 80s I had a nice Nakamichi tape deck
Best sound ever in my car

I made tapes from my 3 head nak at home
It sounded better than my current aftermarket Pioneer audio/dvd/nav/rear camera system in a vw tiguan
An older alpine cd player sounds better too

I use ipods in the glove box, surius, jl audio 4.1 separate amps w a 13" sub that I knob adjust to sound musical yet dynamic in the bass
The car has been insulated throughout

Any head units i should look into? Great cd and ipod sound and interface

I do wonder about how difficult it is to integrate a non-OEM audio system into a modern vehicle given the complex electronics and displays. Also, many modern cars have been pretty extensively engineered from the early design stage with the audio system in mind (even basic body structure is designed for specific speaker placement).

I would be reluctant to mess with the system built into my car. I also have some doubts about how much the sound can be improved given that noise is obviously the biggest limiting factor in sound quality in a car. My car is supposedly quiet (2011 E350), but, I really cannot hear the quieter passages of the classical music that I listen to almost exclusively when I drive.

If I had to pick the "best" sound I heard in a car, it would actually be such a custom, non-factory, installation I heard in an S500; this system utilized a vacuum tube amplifier (fortunately the trunk on this car is large).