Week Nine Truly Exciting Things Are Afoot in In-Car Electronics

I have some recurring themes in my own Facebook page. I find it grotesque that while images that are deemed merely ‘˜sexy’ here, (as we are utterly inured to the odd nipple and bums don’t terrify us in England) that the stuff Facebook happily allows folks to share and publish is way past anything any UK broadcaster could put on terrestrial television on any channel at any time. Let alone the BBC at teatime, or even channel Four late at night. Once, the very concept that snuff video existed was a myth of a Nic Cage movie. Nowadays on Facebook, you have to make a conscious ‘˜do not press the button’ decision on the video to avoid seeing it. And sometimes the medical photography that aught not have broken patient confidence gets stolen and posted. I recall the fire brigade taking unpublishable and deeply disturbing photographs to a show at the NEC in 2008, one that had so few people know about and come along, that the exhibitors rebelled and the organisers ran away and hid! They were not put up but just shown you by the firemen, who I guess wanted to frighten kids into NOT being in any more like it. As it was, it was the single most vile thing I have ever seen and they are graven upon my soul. I am not sure it was needful nor good of them. But I am a sensitive blossom!
Witnessing the crash behind me on the M11 and then getting a BAMMM impact on my windscreen that made fifteen-inch-wide circular fractures on it, last week, disturbed me more than I realised. I thought it was no biggie but I kinda rolled the two into a nightmare that had me deprived of sleep for days, in which I just plain got distracted by a later deadline enough to commit the rudest professional act you can and forget a damn meeting, as well as get totally over-reacted, full of caffeine and no blood sugar, later in the week to another issue. I know I startled and troubled those concerned kinda of a lot of detail? Well, I did get tearful on national BBC Radio 2 about James Gandolfini’s death, as we are of an age. As I write, I am again full of coffee and no breakfast but I did drop literally stones in weight thusly and still need to do so again. I am working on a line of Fat Bloke stand up and with luck, by the time I have developed it, I might not be able to present it
Enough Adamishness, ‘WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT FAT BOY?’ I hear you cry! Well, for one, I have some seriously cool and not quite ready for hatching insider stuff about a brand new car audio event in the development stages (I am quietly confident it is ON, but until it actually is, I cannot spill a bean) and also that there is a fantastically sexy development going on in high end SQ speakers. Also, on the Site Associate front, we have Earthquake and Rockford Fosgate brands, along with Ground Zero, SPL Dynamics, Cerwin-Vega and Soundstream, plus Orion, Boss Audio and JBL, Infinity, Alpine, Clarion and Kenwood and JVC along with others like widger-meisters InCarTec, plus wibble-killers SilentCoat and Dynamat , with their Celsus stablemates JL Audio, and DAB Motion, ALL as solid supporters. There’s a few others in the offing, as well. It’s good news and means a serious need to up the game. I keep ON saying I will reduce word count and make the fruit cake denser in reviews but I think it is time to do so!
Finally, just check the Chord HUGO, which is a 12V mobile DAC of amazing power and loveliness for a mere £1,400. It was made for audiophiles as travels, or else just to plug into a serious HiFi system indoors but I have plans to try one in a car!
Lots to pack and sort, so will sign off. Be careful out there. Love each other, be nice to those involved in brands you don’t dig, as we are all fellow travellers in a seriously wonderful world and variety is the spice of life. Imagine if we only had one brand, called, say ‘Dear Leader Audio’. Just think about it and like D Love says, Spread the Love!
Adam Rayner On Line Editor