Morel Mondays (On a Tuesday…) Mansory Lamborghini Aventador

My job has the most wonderful moments. Stuff I should damn well tweet about but sadly just cannot let a second social media obsession into my time. I find it hard enough to get to read the Angler’s Mail, more’s the pity! I get to do stuff and report on stuff that are pure schoolboy fantasy. And right high up on that list are folks I used to go repping to back in the mainstream car audio era, when I was a sales bloke for the company that is now Armour Automotive. They are Auto Audio.
wibble-wobble-fadey-slidey-time-travel It is yet still the Eighties and the boss’s Rolls Royce is parked on the rough ground under the railway arches opposite the BBC Television Centre. There was a sign on the pavement ‘Car Audio’ I think was all, and when you got in, it was all subdued blueness and sadly, dank as a dungeon. No matter how warm, it smelled like the wondrous wine cellars under the massive railway arches at London Bridge main line terminus in SE1. Moist and a bit fungal
These days, the premises are big enough to hold an indoor sound off within and they have, opening the EMMA season on two or three seasons. They are fully equipped with paint room and no-nothing-else painters. They have a full time seamstress who sews leather seats and trims and they have lifetime served audio craftsmen like Steve Wong and Tim Ivatts.
I have known Steve since our mutual days working at InCars in Acton, North West London, relatively close to the Auto Audio location today. He is a top chap as are all their people. I even saw a brand new Rolls Wraith the new fastback shape in there, having a darker tint put in than it came with. The owner knowing fully well that his huge cost investment would be enhanced by their labours and that they are as good if not better than the Rolls garage at this kind of thing.
This is why the word of mouth is so very much more potent than any other medium. It has a virtual version and remains the same thing. If you care enough about something, you tell your friends directly. This is ‘˜viral’ on line and among the owners of say, Ferrari Enzos, the same thing still obtains. For since the days of intrigued BBC presenters and staffers seeing the sign and the business picking up its first High Net Value customers, well, things have kind of snowballed.
To the point where it is not even polite to reveal the customers’ number plates nor whom they are, unless you have permission. I have had once or twice but mostly you cannot mention the A listers and oligarch types.
And so it is with THIS. I will shut up and let you enjoy the car. Just check the video start out, where we discuss the costs of Lambos and stuff from Mansory to augment them.

I gather the owner is a young bloke and he came to get his system augmented and improved over the already impressive specification he had had installed because his friends’ Bentley and Rolls Royces both had some bass in their doors. He wanted some of that.
The main drivers are all from the legendary Morel Elate system and while fully supplied with very high quality passives, they are also specified for active use and are, here. The bizarrely high sound quality Power Density amplifiers from Alpine are beloved of Auto Audio, for their ruggedness and compact power as well as being up there with the mad end Italian exotica they also deal with. Astonishing SQ, fully able to cut it at sound off in SQ.
The next oddity is that the subwoofer is not yet a custom one but a Pioneer TSW-X110. This active has a controller of its own but the whole signal is fed from the stock headunit via a unit that has a computer interface for set up, from Audison. No Pioneer TSW-X110 ever had a posher set of fettling… unless it was also at Auto Audio!

The car has the most deliciously tight and neat mid-HF builds

But you cannot see the sixes in the stock locations in the doors. These bear the badge of the stock system that was still way behind Morel. They are in here, with extra work on the acoustics:

So, six speakers and eight channels. With two of the four way Alpines in there, like the man says, a PDX- F6 and a PDX-F4. The F4 is bridged to two chewier channels to drive the sixes at 200w apiece, while the F6 is also bridged to two channel use at a fat 300w per side, into the mid and tweets’ passive crossover. All fully EQ’d through the OEM output of the Lambo’s stock unit. I can tell you that the bass is improbable and goes way deeper than any other under seat style unit I have ever experienced.
I am sure the chap may consider a JL Audio MicroSub if he but knew how bonkers they were as well. (At this point, overcome with enthusiasm, I called both Auto Audio and JL Audio UK! Lol) That front stage has real power and authority and needs it as the engine is so glorious. Here are a few more shots..

But if you want to see the whole shoot, in a slideshow style, then click the linky and it’ll be all VisionON..
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A massive thank you to Greg at Auto Audio link and to Tim Ivatts who was good to let me video-nag him repeatedly.