Most recent list of good and bad car audio brands - CarAudioForum.com
We've broken this section into 4 categories:
1: Bad
2: Questionable
3: Good
4: Highest quality
Bad
Absolute
American HiFi (Rockwood)
American Pro
Audiovox
Automobile
Becker
Blackmore
Boschmann
Boss
Craig
DHD
Dual
Emerson
JDL
Jensen
Kenford
Kole
Kraco
Kronik
LA Sound
Legacy
MA Audio
Optimus (Radio Shack)
Pheonix Digital
Planet Audio (Boss, by any other name)
Power Acoustik
Profile
Pyle
Pyramid
Rockwood
Sound Storm
Sparkomatic
SPL Audio
Stetsom
Thump
Ultimate Sounds
Urban Audio
US Amps- the newer stuff
Visonik
Volfenhag
Questionable
Alphasonik
Autotek
you do know their os amps where made by Zed
Audiobahn
carpetbagger
Audiopipe
Blaupunkt
lie
Aiwa
Crunch
huh?
Elemental Designs (eD)
poor build quality on some but definitely have some good products
Hifonics
Hollywood
Kenwood (amplifiers)
Lanzar
Umm again do you know anything about their os gear?
Lightning Audio
TC Sounds nuff said
Matsui
MB Quart
os equipment use to be german made...
Nakamichi (newer products)
NVX Audio
Onyx Mobile Audio
Panasonic
come on bro have you seen their tube heads?
Phoenix Gold (ask on specific models)
only after the xenon, they now are high end
Pioneer (amplifiers and speakers)
Precision Power (PPI) (newer non-US made amplifiers)
RE Audio- newer stuff
Rockford Fosgate (lower series products)
SAS Bazooka (all products)
hell no
Sony Xplod
no
Vibe
Good
Alpine (amplifiers, Type-R speakers and subs)
Altec Lansing
Alumapro
alumapro m16 is pretty high end bro
Ample Audio
Ascendant
same as fi and fi is high end now?
Audio Development
Avionixx
Boston Acoustics
they had plenty of high end gear as well
Cadence
Cerwin Vega (subs)
meh strokers
Clarion (head units)
Clifford (alarms)
Cliff designs
Coustic
Crescendo Audio
Crossfire
Crystal
if adire and oz are high end why isn't crystal?
DC Audio
Directed (DEI)
Dynamat
Earthquake
mind explosion
Eaton
Helix
high end
Hushmat
Illusion
Incriminater Audio
same deal if fi and sundown are high end?
Infinity
JBL (amplifiers)
JVC Digifine
Kenwood Excelon (HU)
Kicker
only a small portion should be listed as good
Kinetik (batteries)
overpriced
Lunar
Massive Audio
no
Memphis Audio
a few things belle
MTX (amplifiers)
Orion (newer products)
Phoenix Gold (some models)
os amps are high end new gear is high end
Pioneer- HU's
Polk Audio
no
Powerbass
budget at best
Rockford Fosgate (Power Series amp and subs)
Second Skin (deadner)
Skar Audio (owner/company seems to be very shadey/unethical)
same deal
Soundstream
new stuff meh human reign amp high end
SSA Audio
same thing
Stereo Integrity
plenty of great stuff
USAcoustics
Viper/DEI (alarms)
meh
Highest Quality
a/d/s
Adire
Alpine (head units, signal processors)
Arc Audio
Audax
Audio Control
Audison
Brax
Butler Audio
CD Technologies (CDT)
Diamond Audio (HEX)
Digital Designs (DD)
DLS
DynAudio
Eclipse (Fujitsu Ten)
Esoteric Audio
FI Audio
Focal
Gladen
Harrison Labs
Helix
Hertz
Hybrid Audio
Image Dynamics (ID)
JL Audio (W6v2, W6v3, W7. ZR components,Slash and HD series amps)
KEF Kar components
Kove
Luxman
McIntosh Laboratories
MMATS
Morel
Mosconi
Nakamichi (Older products)
Ohio Alternator
Orion (older products)
OZ Audio
Pioneer Premiere (head units)
Precision Power (PPI) (Art series amps, old)
Rainbow
Resonant Engineering (RE) Older Stuff
Rockford Fosgate (older 1980s and 1990s models)
Sinfoni
Streetwirez
Stinger
Sundown Audio
Treo
Tru tech
US Amps (older amps)
Wrangler Alternators
XS Power (batteries)
Xtant
Zapco
Zed Audio
*Funky PuP