The Five Star car stereo Podcast
Sep 13, 2026 · 56 min · 10 segments
Join Dean and Brian as they dig deep into the fun of car Audio Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2wEaIi7lVN8XH9VzklzYcl?si=K-IaJ-bxQLawGYNo5GQpyw
Anyways, do people even understand car stereo today? And I feel like I had today, I had a customer come in and we were taking a stereo out of his old car and he was telling me what his new car was.
And I was like, oh, that car.
Great.
You know, we can't do what you want to do in that car as of right now.
And he's like, what? Why? And it's like, what do you mean? Because I don't understand how General Motors is programming a car to open my laptop and hack the software and turn this dumb feature off.
I haven't figured that out yet.
Right now, I'm too busy working with Fusion 360, but it's on my list of software to learn.
I want to learn how to code most.
yeah, I'll get to it before I die.
Probably not.
you know but there again i just what do you think you're what do you where do you think we kind of missed the mark i mean people want it people still want it
so okay so there's there's been a technology shift in the last At least since 2012.
And in 2019, even the modules, they went from an average price of $189 to $340 for an expensive module.
2019 rolls around and the cars got so much more complicated that a module went from starting price, $500 to some of these modules now are seven and $800.
And yeah, The pain point, and I'm going to go farther into this conversation, but just for this one particular thing, the pain point for a whole system used to be $1,000.
Now, with the price of things going up everywhere, eggs, whatever, they're down now, but fuel, whatever, that pain point now is about $2,000.
once you get over two thousand dollars then you got the next level which is about 3 500 then you got the next level is 5 000.
see i kind of i kind of feel in there again not not to be pretentious or anything i don't have anything for 2 000 bucks
Anyways, do people even understand car stereo today? And I feel like I had today, I had a customer come in and we were taking a stereo out of his old car and he was telling me what his new car was.
And I was like, oh, that car.
Great.
You know, we can't do what you want to do in that car as of right now.
And he's like, what? Why? And it's like, what do you mean? Because I don't understand how General Motors is programming a car to open my laptop and hack the software and turn this dumb feature off.
I haven't figured that out yet.
Right now, I'm too busy working with Fusion 360, but it's on my list of software to learn.
I want to learn how to code most.
yeah, I'll get to it before I die.
Probably not.
you know but there again i just what do you think you're what do you where do you think we kind of missed the mark i mean people want it people still want it
so okay so there's there's been a technology shift in the last At least since 2012.
And in 2019, even the modules, they went from an average price of $189 to $340 for an expensive module.
2019 rolls around and the cars got so much more complicated that a module went from starting price, $500 to some of these modules now are seven and $800.
And yeah, The pain point, and I'm going to go farther into this conversation, but just for this one particular thing, the pain point for a whole system used to be $1,000.
Now, with the price of things going up everywhere, eggs, whatever, they're down now, but fuel, whatever, that pain point now is about $2,000.
once you get over two thousand dollars then you got the next level which is about 3 500 then you got the next level is 5 000.
see i kind of i kind of feel in there again not not to be pretentious or anything i don't have anything for 2 000 bucks
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