^^^i feel the reason for that nigel is because everyone at the time was using car audio speakers...so car shows wasnt as LOUD as they are today....even though back then we found it to be rellll loud...its kinda like when playstation 1 came out and u telling ureself.."it cant get anymore real than this..."....well its the same concept....back then people used to be like.."it cant get any louder than this"...
because of the more quiet car shows as compared to the ones these days ...if u had enough equipment and mids speakers...then bet yuh bottom dollar that you gonna stand out from the crowd because u would have had more equipment than them....but let that same pw 800 with that same system compete in todays shows nah.....
u cant really compare different eras of soundboyz to each other...because as someone previously said in this topic...back then someone made a 139dB in a meter and he was considered LOUD fuh so....now????...you make that and u embarrassing ureself...we on a whole different level now....