Week Thirty – My Brain’s All Hurty!

 
I have definitely got bandwidth issues but have completed the Alpine PDX review and found the PDX-F4 to be a cult product in the making. The Sound Quality is astonishing and the power output just daft for the price and the quoted amount it is supposed to have – nearly 30% over, like early Rockford Fosgates!
Talk Audio has just passed a major milestone and yet didn’t make a great to-do and song and dance about it. The Forum has just had its Tenth birthday! At the same time, the magazine has just entered it’s fourth year and I will be off out to see folks and talk about banners, reviews, editorial and increasingly, video coverage of all sorts of stuff.
There are possible changes afoot in how the magazine will look and these will come hand in hand with an ever yet increasing speed of delivery of the news and features and car write ups. There are all sorts of things planned and the one I really want to do the most is the subwoofer Death Test. I want to get a bunch of entry level woofers and find which is the most idiot-proof. I will use the mighty resident reference bass amp from JBL, the GTO24001, and can put a kilowatt up the butt of a say, oh 300watt woofer. With a device known as a clamp, which detects the voltage in the speaker wire by measuring the field generated around the wire, you can infer watts. Thus we drive each woofer harder till it dies, film it like woofer snuff porn and rate them for ruggedness.
It’s great fun and always gets a fascinating result – it’s even created a following for the absurdly hard to kill individuals found in the past for Max Power magazine and then in turn for Fast Car. But right now, there’s a Clarion headunit I want to check out after a few more speakers, including some real entry level ones. I want to see if they do more than fill the space and stop the wind flowing through the holes.
I’ll go get on, then.
Adam Rayner – Online Editor