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Regular readers will be aware of Project Big Black and how I persuaded Connects2 that their marketing shove for Ground Zero should be concentrated in one insane install with one insanely motivated and proven nutter to drive it all forward. Well, after the intervention of the real world that said we can only fit so many cubic feet within a Shogun, we have the finalised system diagram of intent for thejoose and his broad chunky chassis.
And his 4×4.
 
And his Shogun’s kit list reads badass. The current headunit is a Kenwood KDC-W7044U with a 120Gb iPod Classic plugged in it – but more news about that in a moment….
The front stage will be a pair of Ground Zero Competition GZCT 2200 weapons-grade industrial bullet tweeters – VERY dangerous – with three Ground Zero Competition GZCW 8-4 8in midwoofers each side, which should be bonkers for front doors. With one Ground Zero Uranium GZUA2225SQ – 2 x 225wrms amplifier running the eights and a Ground Zero Uranium GZUA2125SQ – 2 x 125wrms amplifier just to run the bullets. In the back, or as headphones in the wall, there are another pair of those HF devices and this time, they are married to ten inch MIDS; yes ten inch and midbass only! These are the Ground Zero Competition GZCW 10-4 10in midwoofer and they will run upon a Ground Zero Uranium GZUA4125SQ – 4 x 125wrms amplifier along with the fly-killing tweeters. Matt’s going to use an AudioControl Epicenter with a custom made 25Hz subsonic filter and an eight-way line driver, although he’s not sure which model to use just yet.
But the breath-crushing part will be the EIGHT sets, yes EIGHT sets of big hard fifteen inch woofers, each with their own amplifier from the hardly-aggressively-named Ground Zero Nuclear range. That’s eight Ground Zero Nuclear GZNW15 – 15inch 2,500wrms subwoofers and eight Ground Zero Nuclear GZNA 1.2500DXII 2,300wrms mono amplifiers. This lot requires a monstrous amount of Tsunami cabling and signal kit as well as enough battery acid to dissolve a body. Matt is using ten SKBT100 Shuriken super-duty AGM batteries as well as a sexy under-bonnet SKBT785DT cell for the Shogun’s own electrics. The whole steak pie is kidneyed with a pair of 210 ampere alternators made for Renault fridge vans!! These are to be mounted on 12mm plasma-cut steel brackets by Adam ‘dumdum’ Daniels, who is part of the team Matt has behind him from Talk Audio’s forum’s basshead community.

Matt ‘thejoose’ Sprigg will be on the Connects2 stand at the Auto Sound Style show coming up, where he will be fitting a large amount of copper rope to his car and will also be meeting up with James Howe of Kenwood who has, on pretty much flap-all notice whatsoever and without my actually asking properly as such happily agreed to hook him up with a DDX-5024 screen-based double DIN unit of much sexiness. Matt is bloody thrilled and said, “Damn! I went through four different iPod headunits before I chose my old Kenwood. That Kenwood – that I am using at the moment – has impressed me so I am sure this new one will be even better! Thank you very much to Kenwood and to Adam for making the call, I am looking forward so much to the show! Nervous as hell, though!”

Nathan Carey
As if that wasn’t enough, I have another system diagram to regale you with, that I can also lay some claim to making happen, partly through the power of Talk Audio’s audience and partly through, of course, the wonderfulness of the people involved in the team in question.  I refer to team Highdown and Nathan Carey, a lad with Cerebral Palsy and the whole weight of Team Highdown behind him.
I did write a heavy-duty ‘this aughta be scary’ news piece but in honesty when I saw just how small a Pug 107 really is and knowing how huge the Vibe Black Death fifteens are in every way, I was, like Rob Gurney, chief tech at Vibe, utterly certain that the mad-as-a-ferret Brad Coole would never fit all six Black Death fifteens in.
 
Well, I have seen the pictures on the forum and Brad is as dangerously creative as I promised he was and has worked out a method to fit the six subs in the back. Steve from Vibe went along to Highdown and wanted to get them to fit a Black Death Bass 1 amp per coil yet it was impossible to get that many amps in, so there’s ‘only’ six not twelve – at 5,000 watts each! However, the system, with its multiple door speakers from the Vibe BlackAir series (fives If I’m right, driven on a Black Death 4 channel amp) is set to be bloody huge in impact. With the smaller cubic per woofer than they really need, it’s not going to drop deep like the Iceman’s Astra but I for one, would bloody hate like fun to have to go up against Nathan in his SPL class.
The system is shaping up and the future is looking Boomy!
Jez at Highdown said, “We are really looking forward to seeing Nathan take some glory this season, and right now, that looks to be quite a good risk. Brad is a clever guy to fit that stuff in as he has so far! And we wanted to offer our deepest thanks to the guys at Midbass, we won’t let you or Nathan down!”
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