Week Twenty-One And Swag Gets Serious

Okey Doke, I did some Sunday-ness and got some of that backlog of admin sorted. And have got the gallery for the Ground Zero Shogun assembled. As well as that, I have the Oxford Car Audio JL Beetle to write up. I also put in an hour packing up ten little parcels of Pioneer and Orion swag, to post out at Talk Audio’s P&P expense to those who responded first to the posts here and on Facebook and even Twitter. I am @TheAdamRayner. (Sad and incredible, I have not quite got the industrious ego needed for proper use of Twitter.. I fail to tweet cool stuff about speaker systems I get and worse – I will try and improve for professional reasons.)

 

Thing is, I have noticed a recent swag-effect. I have no idea where it comes from but I think it’s only an ugly place. It’s lovely to get a freebie and there’s no reason to accuse anyone of greed for leaping to their feet to catch a flung tee shirt from the stage. But to catch one, then complain to management that it wasn’t a leather jacket is a bit Out Of Order. I have a lovely set of Daylight Running Lights here from Parksafe, a leader in parking sensors, who know all about the kit you drill holes in bumpers for. It’s body-shop-skills stuff of course and is no bolt-on job. It takes real know how and experience. However, I have the superstars at Oxford Car Audio as my best buds on this and so, all I need is a suitably applicable motor to get them installed into to get the set of lamps some editorial coverage. My fave would be someone who will be seen about the place but they will need to be able to get their vehicle to Oxford for the fit.

 

I had one such recipient and vehicle arranged (via Facebook in fact) and then got first some pressure as to timings, (wanted them SOONER) then an immediate request for me to go to another company, unrelated to the one offering the item, to demand an electronic thing worth a thousand pounds fitted, just from some sensation of entitlement. I hadn’t got such a thing to give away. He hadn’t indicated he was lined up for press, he just felt he aughta ask. Just made me feel our freebie was simply ‘not good enough’ and in the nicest possible way, these things are only there for like, actual marketing and promotion. So a bit of happy engagement is all the suppliers really want. So, ‘MEH’ is likely to get you disqualified – as, for the first time, I thought about it for a few days, realised this was already a failure of marketing and sadly withdrew them.

 

So, the set of Daylight Running Lights, big sexy LEDs in two rows of five, which follow the high end OEM fashion right now and an install at Oxford Car Audio, altogether worth some £200, (that’d be top typical selling price) as well as the Talk Audio glory, are once again up for grabs. I need to find the right ride, is all. Favour will be given to the deserving! And hopefully, slightly grateful!

 

I talked about the Kenwood KDC-W6527 RDS/MP3/WMA/CD Changer controller headunit and the KHD-C710 Phatnoise Music Keg from Kenwood and how they will be off to Switchy ASAP but still gotta plug it in first, so will get at that this week.

 

And finally and most gloriously, I have cooked up a sweet money-cannot-buy prize for the awarding of the peak, TENTH Kenwood KDC-DAB4551U digital radio. Yes, the swaggee will get to come visit Kenwood house, see all the stuff they do, including the top of the tech amateur and professional radio equipment. We’ll get you sarnies or sushi, depending on what you fancy, (no expense spared, literally, we have a Costco nearby!) and you can have a listen to your deck in the listening room at Kenwood towers, one of the best I have ever been in. You just need to be within range of Watford and be able to do it on a weekday to swag it.