Week Twenty-Four: In Which I Have Made Car SPL Levels In My House.

So, any of you lot going to Eatpizza in the Balearics this year? I really want to get snaps of the Asahi beer-and-JL Audio Toyota pickup They have an event in Brighton soon, so we might just have to go see it there as well but more on that later.
I’ve just been lucky enough to get my hands on a Paradigm Sub1, a Velodyne DD18+ and a Bowers & Wilkins DB1 subwoofer for home use, worth all together at retail, some £14,050! Each is a top end item and costs thousands. The B&W was a world exclusive and went hand in hand with also getting first dibs on their vapour-deposited Diamond tweeters in the revamped 800 series. And the relevance to car audio? Well, the DD18+ has a mighty driver in it and Velodyne used to make car audio. Thing is, the huge cone and three kilowatts peak, 1,250 W Class D RMS amplifier and my room were not a good match. The sheer grunt and pressure the thing made, created the same bass environment as a baddass car install and the CD player couldn’t cope, jumping EXACTLY as if it was in Ian Pinder’s van!
Bonkers!
Incidentally, I can finally reveal this week that Ian ‘˜Iceman’ Pinder is well on his way to getting the wedge together to purchase his new equipment for the Astra Of Legend. He talks to me about massive excursion drivers and the sheer bloody violence of ten inch MIDS and evil bullet tweeters and reckons his new design will do everything the old one did and maybe more. So, best of Bassy British, Dude and here’s to the new one
Peter Kay plays a shovel at the end of his stadium gig with more pyros than any act I have ever seen. Hysterically brilliant as he has rehearsed to death and his in-the-wings real guitarist is awesome, so I had a good excuse for time lost to him last week. I’m going to get at the Big Heads first of the kit I listed last week, starting with a Caliber RDD401BT Bluetooth more-than-a-DIN headunit. And the Blau New York after that.
Well done to davidcox1983 and Cmann78 for swagging the tickets to the Peformance Vauxhall Show at the weekend (A HUGE thank you to Pioneer for hooking TA up for those) and well done to the Power of the ‘˜Net as the Japspeed Scooby was stolen on Saturday from the show and recovered on Sunday from the Reading area! The arm out the window of the Japspeed Silvia is the delectable and petrol-headed Danielle Christie, whom I adore.
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