Win a Jacket: Design a 200dB Alpine System!
I am something of a trade Svengali. I have been able to tell certain people about certain other ones and make stuff happen. I have secured sponsored product for those who have been the right ones – and they are harder to find than people who THINK they are good to be sponsored. For every Matt Sprigg or Iceman, you get twenty serious cases of ‘Self-Entitlement-On-No-Track-Record!’
FEW TIPS to get sponsored: 1) Be really good, 2) Be really nice and friendly, 3) Be at all the shows no matter what, 4) Get famous first. Then you are likely to be seen as a good Return On Investment and sadly, that is how the companies all think. In truth, you end up paying with a slice of YOU, which is more than money. Think hard, it can be tough and you can even end up with haters! I really find that bit tough to handle, giving a sponsoree a pep talk as has happened at least thrice with different folks!.
So, under 1) comes being knowledgeable, able and even expert&;
Anyway, to the chase All serious electronics companies in our world offer technical support as the cars we fit into and the smart phones we have to marry up with become ever yet more complex. And this was sent in to the sweet folks at Alpine recently:
Dear sir or madam
I am looking at building an spl competition install and am very interested in using your products. I am aiming at a minimum of 200db to start with with future upgrades. Could you please advise on what products you would recomend and if you would be able to provide any support in my project
Now, they get a LOT of hopeful e-mails like this (some even less well punctuated) and despite my wheedling and pleading, there was no way I was going to get the text of the reply, which I gather was impeccably kind but did point out that would be a fatal noise dose.
So, in a fit of wanting him to have answered the question deadpan, I now want YOU to design the system Mister Alpine Technical SHOULD have suggested.
I reckon the corporate support would have amounted to keen wholesale prices at the pallet-size quanitities I imagine one might need and lots of coverage in the press here on Talk Audio and the very successful social media feeds that the Alpine executive types are working on busily.
So, in a world where 200dB may JUST have been experienced upon Earth, as yet no agency of man has made a repeatable-use (as against explosion) sound that big. And even as for explosions none bigger than this recent one took two and a half minutes to reach the ground and was still JUST sound and did this&;
Recorded in Russia and coming soon to a Talk Audio windscreen.
http://youtu.be/YD-U-y-U4j8
RIGHT! A FREE LARGE ALPINE JACKET FOR THE BEST EFFORT.
Design us a large sound system, using current Alpine products that you think might be at risk of doing 200dB.. (I am not really of the opinion that SPL at the ragged edge of earthly physics is Alpine’s thing so much as the best sound quality, mind.) and the best design perhaps with some humour as to build and vehicle details will win the jacket and good entry is at risk of being published! So go for it! No real time limit until my own whim kicks in and depending upon entries. So comment below and PM me and I will give you the e-mail to send your system design to.
A nice diagram would be sweet but by no means essential.
Off you go!