BLAM BY GUY BONNEVILLE.
France has an awesome heritage of fine loudspeaker manufacture, with some of the finest makers in both hifi and professional sound reinforcement happening to be French. As often happens, the speaker designers, the ones I call ‘Golden Geese’ for they lay eggs of gold, realise that they are the talent and like a pop band member going solo, set up their own speaker companies – once they have learned the trade side to go with their native passion, genius and creativity to make new speaker technologies.
One such is Guy Bonneville, who was on the tech team, designing top end loudspeakers for the legendary Focal company. He has been doing his own thing for some years now and the offering has a cool mixture of imagery. For the brand is called BLAM, yet he has his name above the brand logo, in script, like a proud chef has his name over the door of his restaurant, and below it, the words, ‘˜Driven by Passion’, which definitely isn’t just about boom.
And here, a cunning first offering to tell you about (and after doing the follow-up, homework, I can tell you there is some clever stuff in there) all fettled for the owners of Volkswagen Transporter vans. These are still a massive slice of business, for most all owners of these vans buy them to customise. They have a culture of individuality of vehicle, as strong as the Japanese, in this.
Below, an image of their sexy looking product, so you can see what I mean…
Now, here is the press release:
This is a complete kit for the fitting of BLAM BL-200RS highly efficient 20cm 2 way component speakers into the front doors of a Volkswagen Transporter T5 and T6 van.
The kit includes all the fitting parts required, including 2 sheets of Skinz sound deadening.
This speaker upgrade kit offers a significant upgrade in audio quality when fitted with the original head unit in the vehicle. It also works very well with aftermarket head units and amplifiers.
Kit includes: BLAM 200mm component speakers, 200mm MDF speaker adapter rings, Speaker adapter cables for plug and play installation, Two sheets of Skinz sound deadening, Nuts and bolts fixings
Speaker features:
Hi-Efficiency 200 mm (8in) 2-way component system
Woofer 200mm (8in)
25mm soft dome tweeter with surface mount accessory
On line 6dB crossover with adjustable tweeter level (0, -3dB)
Max power 200W / Nom. power 100W
Frequency response: 50Hz to 25 KHz
Sensitivity (2.83V/1m) 94dB
Impedance 3Ohms
Part number – SFK-VW001-200 RRP £249
This kit can also be installed into Golf mkV, Touran and Transporter T6 vehicles.
(The In-Car Tec company are the distributors in the UK for BLAM and this kit for fitting double DIN headunits seamlessly, both physically and electrically, into your VW Transporter van is evidence of excellence in their engineering. Check this set of bits out of you are a vanman..or vanbabe! ED.)
Volkswagen T6 head unit fitting kit
Complete head unit replacement fitting kit for a Volkswagen Transporter T6 van to fit an aftermarket double DIN head unit.
Kit includes: Fascia, Steering control interface, Universal patch lead, Antenna adapter
Kit includes a flush mount fascia, this uses side mounting brackets so no cage kit is needed.
CANbus steering control interface to retain the use of the audio steering wheel controls including the telephone buttons. This interface will also generate a key present ignition supply and provide speed pulse, reverse gear and handbrake CANbus outputs.
Universal patch lead to connect the steering control interface to major branded aftermarket units.
Twin Fakra to DIN antenna adapter.
Part number FK-699 RRP £99.99
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