Talk Audio – Got Me Into Debt But It’s Worth It!

It’s all about getting ready for T-17 this week and I have stuff to sort out. There’s the canopy and all the banners and flags to put in the Volvo and a wee polish of the Audio Control SA-3055 Real Time Spectrum Analyser/SPL Meter to do. I have to pick out a nutty test tone CD and make a small display-cover with card and Blu-tak as many of the discs have track numbers that can be used to guess the tone. It’s that or ask a nice man to hang his headunit out of the dash. I’d better go plead on the forum on that one!
I know we are going with Bass Lord DumDum for the all day ‘BBQ The Bar Stewards With Bass Burps’ provision but the SQ is a bit more complex.
There’s the two Great Big Heavy Parcels of prizes (That’s the JBL 660GTi component speakers”> and the bass amp linked below) to get out of the vault and I think I should make a tournament board up with a big bit of card. Gosh, it’ll be high tech.
I had so much else going on last week that I failed to tell you about the arrival of an exciting rare breed subwoofer. An SNG Audio SQL Category Pro Series fifteen called an SQL Pro-15. It has a carbon fibre face and big but well made innards and so far the workout it’s had on the resident JBL GTO24001 amplifier has been impressive as hell. It’s still technically in beta testing as it isn’t yet finalised and branded up with the logos but I gather that this is a ready to go product. So I’ll give it some challenges!
I have had a very interesting drive in an Audi belonging to Automotive Styling’s Tony Rook. His in dash Necvox HQ2 motorised screen display was hooked to a true mobile TV tuner made by C-KO called the DVBT-1080 that utterly outperformed the system in the Mercedes SL500 I once tried! The ride (and five pages of notes) will form the basis of the tuner’s review. I can tell you right now that the DVBT-1080 astonished me. It is as well evolved as a ruddy Galapagos Marine Iguana. (dives underwater in the sea to graze seaweed)
I will try to get at the triumvirate of DLS tests also done in the car – at CAS in a HighDown Honeyz’ Polo – to get them ready for you to see as soon as possible. I am losing a few days to other stuff, though. One is a pop down to the south coast to see some of the most enthusiastic and forward looking and darn plain cool sets of people in all mobile electronics. I’ll let you know what happens in this column next week. The other is pure hell.
I have to go to the legendary Air Studios in London’s posh Hampstead and spend time listening to Pioneer’s top end new kit and being fed and watered all day. Since my webmaster is up to his scalp in fartomuchtodoallatonce-ness and ready to lose sanity (bit of a monstrahusive and powerfully new website has just gone live in his other sphere and he’s fighting bugs and workload) this is likely to make his chin quiver. Since I know just how much he’d love to be able to do the same. But I did accept a big powerful AV receiver to act as my reference watt-source for the Home Cinema Choice magazine reviews, so it’d be way past churlish not to go and I love it too!
So do go check out the T-17 stuff on the forum. I’m off to nag (remind) makers to bring their cars for us all to see.
Adam Rayner – Online Editor
This week’s strap line by Johnny Sangha