Week Two And I’m Being Controversial Already!

Talk Audio has had an AGM and a jolly affair it was, too. Sadly described as the least messily-ending meeting the mod team have ever recalled – and they have been known to get a bit lively – there was an actual agenda (although Switchy took the rip outta Jexdirectedtech for even making one) and between getting fed some truly lovely nosh and getting a libation or two down our necks, we sorted stuff out and put the world to rights, well, they did. I mostly chipped in with useless and pointless stuff.
But it was lovely to break bread with Mike ‘Guru’ Organ – da boss – with Switchy, Jim Jexdirectedtech, Wonky Jon Clements, Johnny-5, LeePee, Rod the Rug Doctor and the lovely Neeley. One thing we all agreed upon was that they should all come to ‘Vegas as reporters on the CES for the magazine next year! As it has been proving challenging to get just me funded out there, we will have to think laterally to get the ace reportage team on the spot.
The first press release of the year was about the truly vast Ground Zero amplifiers that Car Audio Direct are now bringing in from Germany. The biggest, when strapped at an Ohm per amplifier to one of its brethren and running at a really fatly-supplied 18 Volts, will dump fully twenty-three kilowatts into its speaker outputs. This is enough, in ONE car amp system to provide bass for a concert venue the size of the London Apollo! I baldly stated that they were the most powerful available in the UK. Knowing a fuss would be made as a few brands with astonishingly huge power outputs have been made available in the UK but mostly through bedroom warrior distributors. This lot is from a well established distributor with proven after sales service skills and even awards for such skills.
I knew it’d cause a fuss. I think that despite being a posh public schoolboy at Haberdashers with Dave Baddiel, Damon Hill and Sascha Baron-Cohen, the fact my mum was on the Sun at the time must have rubbed off to make me do such Red-Top publishing stuffjust to provoke a knowledgeable readership.
But, all kidding aside, they are the most evil amps ever offered by a long established and ‘known-good’ distribution house. I need Matrix Audio to send me some refuting-stuff about DC Audio now&;.
I have three Sony white boxed headunit examples to try out, as well as a sexier double-DIN Clarion head unit that should work with their super duper new DAB aerial. I even have a new aerial to install to try it against the first. I want to know, just like Gwynn Malcolm, about DAB aerials and to see if some are better at pulling in digital radio signals than others.
Adam Rayner On Line Editor