NYC has a car culture that loves music and will go to extremes to let everyone know. Click on the link to see more music machines.
"Carlos [Cruz] is a musicólogo; enthusiasts like him own cars with customized sound systems, and at meets and shows, they are like D.J.s and live engineers, selecting songs and mixing levels for maximum effect. Some prefer clean sound: high-quality audio that allows them to hear the texture of drum kicks and the metal scrapes of the güira in merengue típico. Others simply go for volume, the kind that suffocates their challengers and makes your eyeballs vibrate out of their sockets.
“If you don’t feel like it’s strangling you, then it’s no good,” Carlos said with a chuckle."
When a Minivan Becomes a Music Machinehttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/21/arts/music/dominican-soundsystems.htmlThese rigs have to be seen and heard to be believed.
Inside, there are four 21-inch subwoofers
Everyone in the neighborhood knows what time your daughter's boyfriend drops her off.