Tata Harrier owner installs customized sound system worth Rs 74 cr

Custom audio worth Rs 74 lakh installed in Tata Harrier excluding installation, manufacturing and tuning charges

As a car manufacturer, Tata Motors has always been committed to providing quality sound systems in its vehicles. Especially when compared to vehicles in their respective segments, Tata excels in audio experience through partnerships with brands like JBL and Harman. Tata offers JBL’s 9-speaker music system in the Harrier.

As far as general consensus goes, this 9-speaker system from JBL is more than adequate for their audio needs. However, some audiophiles and audiophiles are always craving for more features from their car audio systems. BHPian team “flipflop” from Chennai is an audiophile who has just installed a custom audio system worth Rs 74 lakh in his Tata Harrier. Let’s take a look.

Tata Harrier gets retrofitted sound system worth Rs 74 lakh

Even in the tax-heavy state of Karnataka, the fact that someone can install a customized audio system worth Rs 74 lakh on a vehicle that can cost up to about Rs 32 lakh OTR is difficult to fathom. Specifically, the sound system costs twice the price of the Tata Harrier in which it is installed, including road tax and insurance. Talk about irony?

But this is the Tata Harrier from BHPian Trigger Team, complete with a customized audio system worth Rs 74 lakh. The entire system was not a plug-and-play solution for the Tata Harrier, it required a lot of thought, visualization, a lot of trial and error, thinking, re-thinking, execution and re-execution.

Talking about the execution, the entire project was done by Speedfreaks from Chennai. The entire project took 6 months and approximately 1,200 man-hours to complete. So, we’d say, not for the faint of heart. This requires a lot of dedication (mental and financial) and a desire to achieve a perfect audio experience.

We say financial contribution because the Rs 74 lakh mentioned by Team-BHPian Trigger does not include installation charges, manufacturing charges and tuning charges. But the sound insulation, the perfection of component selection and the consideration of component placement while keeping the core functionality of the car intact is definitely a journey.

What are the components?

Before the Harrier project, the BHPian Flipflop team owned a Kia Sonet with a sound system worth Rs 29 lakh. Listed below are the components chosen for the Harrier project and their associated prices. In case you are wondering, these prices are mentioned in terms of one lakh rupees apart from their respective components.

To install an audio system of this caliber, Harrier had to undergo extensive soundproofing, get clean current through state-of-the-art DC-DC converters, high-end gold-plated fuses, highest quality cables, DSP, amplifiers, speakers, tweeters, subwoofers , custom fabricated struts and guides to install these components, and requires a lot of patience and dedication. Of course, there are also strong financial resources!

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