Talk Audio – Love Hertz And Music Matters

A shorter week due to the Bank Holiday sees your Online Ed still somewhat knackered! I have just worked at the Modified Nationals car show that in the old days was the whipper snapper. The upstart, the Noob! Now, it’s The Daddy, with what was the Donny show at Doncaster (and now called ISTS at Donny these last three years for being at the new F1 venue, Donington) being utterly overshadowed. A single sound off and only the most vigorous exhibitors from all ICE – Armour – being there.
The Modified Nationals saw Armour’s mad road show joined by Digital Designs (who flew in from Oklahoma), Fusion, Kenwood, Pioneer, Midbass and Car Audio Security all doing their thing. And of course Talk Audio was there distributing brochures from our site associates with our favourite Living Legend, the Lord of the Lows himself, Ian ‘Iceman’ Pinder and his nutty Astra van, now with the V6 engine he said he’d put in it, installed. A ‘three day’ job that took weeks on end yet as ever, he delivered! On top of that, there were no less than three ice competition formats in the house. EMMA, who go from strength to strength, dB Drag with Bass Race and also the newest format of Street Bass contest, called Propper Droppers.
I was there to be good and late on the Saturday morning to help set up the Talk Audio stand with the inestimable Guru-San and then to compere the Risk Club motorcycle stuntmen (who DO Stunt it like they stole ’em) and the two insane Monster Trucks called Swampthing 4×4 and Slingshot– over 3,000 bhp and 0 to 60 mph in less than 4 seconds! On top of that was a tiny stint in the Dynamometer shed with the rolling road and of course the main prize giving for the unparalleled array of car clubs that go along each year. I have a bunch of photographs and will get the full write up done ASAP.
Back at the coalface,  I have a very important set of speakers to finish off in the shape of the Alpine SPG-17CS that turn out to be specifically voiced for our market. I was so keen to find out more about Alpine’s approach to global voicing of their speakers and Serious-as-Sushi attitude to speaker research and development that I have booked an interview with Atsu from Alpine, which will be up for you to see pretty soon after we have our face time.
It’s half term in school-land, so I’ll be spending some time in the bosom of my family but there are a couple of new woofers here to try as well, which I’ll try to get at – the RE Audio RE 12D4 (“Built for Brutality”) and the DLS RW10, which helped a man called Smythe to whup everybody’s ass at European level in the EMMA scene last season, even though it is far from the best DLS make!
Hope you enjoyed the hot weather and here’s to a summer of “Winders Dahn!” action…..
Adam Rayner – Online Editor
This week’s strap line by Killahertz