04/07/2005

Mmm… new speakers…

It’s hard to believe the factory speakers in my Saturn lasted ten full years before one of them finally blew up and started rattling badly enough to wake the dead. Since I listen to music almost every time I’m driving somewhere, it was really hard to hear that rattle, so I decided to (gasp!) get some new speakers installed.

After a rather lengthy and annoying process involving a friend’s car audio shop, I had four new Alpines in place. Wow, the difference is amazing. All those years I was listening to the el cheapo speakers, and now I’ve got high-fidelity sound. My ten-year-old CD changer never sounded so good…