Talk Audio – Shoving Thick Cables Into Obscure Places Since 2000

What a roller coaster of a week just gone! Talk Audio is running its first ever obituary after the horribly untimely loss of Alpine’s top tech, Chris Brown and in the same week I’ve just been to the wedding of John and Melanie Royce. John has been in about six features with his MMats gear and his Spearmint Rhino sponsorship and then the violent and bloody carjacking he experienced, giving a would-be ‘jacker a lesson and having his car drive-by shot with a metal jacketed round – all in quiet Birmingham! The lad of the famous top motoring surname has hydrocarbons in his blood and his wedding to Melanie was a Major Event. The wedding cars included TWO Rolls Phantoms, one a drop head and stretched BMW X5 and a massive long one of those American look-like-a-Bentley 300 thingies – with Lambo doors at the front. Most amazing and slightly disturbing was the stretched Ferrari!
With four rather than just the one pair of side by side Recaro bucket seats, it has to be the least comfy limo in existence and with two five foot long gull wing doors it was quite the most bonkers vehicle ever seen at a wedding. Wonderful stuff. And if of course, you go look at the T17 article, you’ll find a picture of a tiny wee lass wearing a baby gro with “I Am The SQ Fairy” emblazoned upon it and she’s ever so recently hatched.
Back with electrons rather than real life, the JVC KD-AVX77 is up on the site and has a couple of threads beavering away on the forum, go see and go chip in! I have a shortened week of course due to the Bank Holiday Monday and am out tomorrow on a bit of a mad quest with another hat on. (Third time lucky with Ian Welch to get a Barbel for the Angler’s Mail cameras – real pressure!) That said, I have some cool bits of kit here to review, including a bloody great huge monoblock amp from Massive Audio called the DB3000 and an Alpine iDA-X305 to check out. Also, I need to be making calls to get a slew of coaxial speakers in and then sort out a nice clamp tool for the Subwoofer Death Test mooted last week to measure voltages in speaker leads and so extrapolate the power in watts in the speaker wire at the point where the subwoofer dies!
Lastly, I realise that I have flap-all blog ratings on the TA forum and that these ‘This Week’ de-facto blogs just sort of drift off into hyperspace after the week’s up. So just based on sheer wanting them to remain somewhere, I think they should be slapped into the TA Blog system, too. Even if only for the odd insomniacal geek to find who wants to meander through a TA year!
Adam Rayner – Online Editor
This week’s strap line by joe_g