Week 18: In Which We Have Found A Busted Knob.
Regular readers will recall I gave a Talk Audio State of the Art award to a knob in a box made by Pacific Accessory Corporation and sold by Celsus Ice. I ranted in the review about the unreliability and general lack of inter-model, let alone inter-brand compatibility of such knobs in boxes and was why I loved the simple PAC device.
Now, a recently reviewed item, the Earthquake Sound MB1 Bass Doubler, was found to have a huge effect but only to be able to be applied ‘˜all the way on’, or ‘˜all the way off’ due to the possible busted remote control knob. I stressed poor Mr. Earthquake UK and to give him his due, he struggled all the way around London from Kent to Watford on the day before the Royal Wedding, even having to change from anticlockwise to clockwise upon finding the Dartford crossing untenable just to bring me a new knob to try!
Joe ‘Closet Audiophile’ Ajii was thus treated to my receiving him at the door in full Black Tie as I was due to go to present an award at the Nursing Times Nurse Awards in my late mother’s name. So I couldn’t wait as I had to get in a cab into townbut nevertheless we did plug in the replacement knob he had brought with and found that it was just a small fault in the other knob’s board. Hence the MB1 gets a clean bill of health and glowing review.
I have a new video to apply to TATV, made by Kevin O’Byrne, founding editor of Car Stereo & Security magazine. It’s made for his MMSA ’24Hz’ YouTube channel. We’ll be doing some clips together in future and our Kevin may well produce some stuff just for TATV but for now, I just figured it’d be cool to see Kevin’s video review of the Alpine CDE-123R, complete with all his graphics and so forth.
I Still have the Earthquake EQ-7000PXi Equaliser to apply to the same wire loom as the MB 1 and then a slew of woofers to do and it’s another short week, so I’d better get on
Adam Rayner – Online Editor