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JL Audio Evolution® C3 Convertible Component Systems
This just in from JL Audio....news of their brand new C3 speakers that are what's called lsquo;convertible' in that you can mount them as components as normal, as well as use their mounting tech to apply them as a top end coax too. Here's what JL Audio had to say #8230;
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New For 2010! Massive Audio VX VK Speakers Now Shipping
Massive High Performance Audio, City of Angels, CA is pleased to announce the shipping of the new high performance VX coaxial speakers and VK component system. The VX series coaxial speakers compliment the popular V Series Subwoofers released in late 2009. Models include the VX 5in, VX 6in, VX 68 #8230;
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Alpine UK Goes On Facebook Alpine Goes iPad
Alpine have set up a UK Facebook page. On here they will be sharing information about what they are up to - new products that are available, technical info, demo cars and shows that they are attending. Don't worry, they will still communicate via their normal e-mails, mailouts, etc. #8230;
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Audiowave Interconnects
Audio Wave, makers of the most beautifully crafted car audio amplifiers in the entire world have now got audio interconnects to offer to go with their amplifiers. Seen with their maker Grant Hanan at the recent EMMA sound off at Auto Audio, they are available with fixed Switchcraft or retractable #8230;
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New Pioneer Space-Saving Spare Wheel Amplified Subwoofer
Pioneer GB introduces its revolutionary TS-WX610A amplified spare wheel subwoofer that's designed to fit inside the rim of a spare wheel. This means that you do not have to compromise the space in the boot of your car. With its limited installation time and minimal space requirements, Pioneer's latest subwoofer #8230;
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Modified Nationals TV on YouTube
The Modified Nationals show is a well established and for my money the best fun car show of the year. The ONLY one to have been around as long under the same gifted management team, rather than bought, sold, changed beyond recognition and uprooted (and yes, I DO mourn #8230;
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Monocoque – The Final Frontier
01.04.2010
For many years I wrote a mad cartoon series called BoomZilla in the now long-defunct Car Stereo amp; Security magazine. We have started it up again right here on Talk #8230;
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Enzo In A Sound Off
27.04.2010
The single most exciting car audio shop in the UK for me, is Auto Audio in north west London. They are cool for all the wrong reasons. Not because of #8230;
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Zen And The Art Of Car Audio
Monocoque – The Final Frontier
Just Effing Do It!
Talk Audio at the Expo
Week Twenty-Three – Here’s A Slice Of History
Monday, 07 June 2010
You know, one of the odder by products of longevity is how stuff you just knew, turns into lsquo;quaint historical fact', like how you would record your cassettes with Dolby C noise reduction but playback with Dolby B for a brighter sound. And how Bradley Coole tore a 2.3 Ford Granada estate apart at the seams back in the Nineties by use of a lot of Maystar woofers. Or just how awesome it was when a car audio maker first produced an amplifier it said could make a thousand watts. The days before one over gauge power cable was on sale in the UK, the DAT and MiniDisc in car decks and Centrate components from Pioneer.
I recall that the early CD decks were pound;600 and a DAT player went on sale for pound;1,600. I can recall a Panasonic deck (when they sold ice in Europe) called the 909 that had a cute as ninepence little centre speaker called a Katana that went lsquo;schwing' when you turned the power on and it motorised out to do centre channel duties as part of it's DVD-A capabilities. Some of you won't even know about poor old DVD-Audio...
Which is why I feel qualified to comment upon trends in UK mobile electronics. OK, we may now be looking at a business that is smaller than the headphones trade, due to modern OEM car systems getting better and the iPod coming with such a mid-fi standard headphone and there being literally millions of them, but in my world, things have never been better.
When I started, it was before the trend had kicked in and while it could be seen coming, it was a gentle growth. There were no more than five really high end installers in the UK and big bad serious installs were quite rare. Nowadays, there are lots of cars with serious systems and the availability of wickedly potent ICE and truly skilled installer talent has never been better. The living has been ripped out of a huge slice of the make-a-killing part of the trade. Back when I was a rep, they all had a Cosworth engined, whale-tailed Ford Escort parked out the front, covered in removable decals. That's gone, but what has happened now is we have a closer-to-the-American model business where more and more people are aware that a lsquo;Ride' can be lsquo;Pimped' and have its value enhanced rather than devalued with bad work under a railway arch somewhere.
And Ian lsquo;Iceman' Pinder's Astra van has started a resurgence in UK multi-woofer Street Bass installs, with a whole slew of monster systems appearing for the Modified Nationals as their first day out and at least two broken-by-bass windscreens seen at the show.
So after lsquo;Lifetime Achievement' awards and getting called Legend or Lord of the Lows, what's left for Ian?
How about Bass Messiah?
History will record his name, graven on the throbbing root of your collective low frequency Id!
I'll go get on, then.....
Adam Rayner - Online Editor
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Son of Boomzilla - EP2
Episode Two: Identity Crisis Jim Gentry Junior has just found out that he is the son of a genetically modified mutant when his 18th birthday party ends in disaster #8230;
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Son of Boomzilla - EP1
The original BoomZilla graphic art strip was born in Car Stereo amp; Security magazine (Which can be seen here in pauljolee rsquo;s Old Skool Car Audio mags #8230;
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