Week Two Of The Twenty Tens

Do you recall Jeremy Clarkson’s Motorworld series on the BBC? It had that animation at the beginning of the puff of flame at the tyres of a big old monster truck on the ice of Iceland. It was a story wherein the mad intrepid Icelandics would buy the biggest Toyota truck/van thing they could, then fit it with humungous wobbly fat tyres, filled only to five psi and with full on expedition GPS equipment inside. Then they drove them out to the glacier, had an ice barbecue picnic – quite out of sight of the rest of the world – and then drove back. It was lunacy.
The squidgy tyres helped them grip and if they simply plopped them off their huge rims, they sprayed highly volatile lighter gas into the tyre and exploded it! This created enough expanding gas to simultaneously refit and refill the tyre back to 5psi!
Now while it isn’t as evil outside my gaff as it was at head office, where they had the -18 Centigrade night, it has been pretty slippery, so I ordered some snow chains. I will not be thwarted! Likewise the world goes on and I have some Pioneer kit to fit in now. I have their best CD tuner before you go into the realms of the rarefied. We know Pioneer do four-figure wonder-units but this is a beast. It’s retail price is over four hundred pounds and it’s called the DEH-P8100BT. I’m going to hang some of the biggest cheapo coaxes around right on the thing and see just how loud and clear you can get without an external amplifier. It isn’t about cheapness, just effort, as you can get a two bob CD deck and a Purple Vileness amp from a non-specialist shop and a wire kit for this money.
It’s about why you might buy a really good unit for your car and just how much can you squeeze sound-wise from just a headunit in the dash? We are going to find out with the only triaxial tens to have been continuously on the market for ever, the TS-A2503I in a pair of ten inch subwoofer enclosures. I do have to put some boxes in the loft though and move some stuff about to sort it out is all. Christmas decorations and a slew of home theatre kit.
Still it’s a new year and it’s a decent workout. I’m off to wrestle with boxes and the Loft of Dreams…hope you approve of the new video.
Adam Rayner – Online Editor