Week Twenty- Eight – It’s Piling Up At The Gate

 
Err confession time…I have a bit of a plate-spinning or bandwidth issue this week. I have a an epoch-maker in the shape of the Alpine new generation of PDX amplifiers to check out as well as some other stuff previously mentioned and have also got to do the year’s self employed paperwork and sort out a big group of cute home woofers. Plus the Phonocar stuff arrived and I have a new Hertz amp to play with as well.
The Mobile Electronics News trade press was published last week. I write a column of utter piffle called Rayner’s Rants, (just because of the tone I take) and they just had a redesign. So this time my column was about how I would hear about redesigns at Woman’s Own Magazine over the breakfast table from my Mama as she was medical editor for 30 years. As well as going on about rearranging your shop so it looks new, I was off on some tangent about electronic innovation as well.
And that’s a good thing and thankfully, while new tech is ending up in car radio units, it’s being driven by home AV toys and of course, computer tech. You might not believe as a car audio bod, just how much home audio kit is now Ethernet equipped. Blu Ray reckons its future is by way of ‘net interactivity. But that is only going to be as good as the ‘content’ and so far by signing up to the Avatar Programme from the Blu-Ray disc, all I have is the chance to have the whole desktop taken over. There isn’t any ‘stuff’ to download.
And while I am ranting, do you know just how few websites actually create new stuff versus acting as ‘synthesists’ or wholesale collectors of stuff to nail into ‘something better’ (or bigger, so they can claim numbers and sell ads to Google)? It’s something like seven to one I reckon. Or at least by the number of sites that get onto us wanting to pirate the lot! Sorry, ‘co-operate’ is the term. Some, like Ciao make some sense but we didn’t fit and some are just chancers.
So, even while I’m yelping about being a slightly disorganised git, the words’ll keep flowing. So, as ever,
I’ll go get on, then.
Adam Rayner – Online Editor