Yeah as far as I went was to build my own subwoofer box in wood shop class in high school but certainly was never a guru in that department. I have installed stereos and such before, done some minor custom work but not as intense as that haha... Yeah for me audio became kind of a thing of the past, as long as it sounds, I'm okay with it while I'm sure there's insanely better and crisper sounding systems that bring out the acoustics to a T