Week Two: Wherein Talk Audio Has A CRUSADE!
I did get the motor Mouth II reviewed and most impressive it is. If you want one for yourself, the very first person who promises to follow through with a little review-users-opinion of a few words for me to publish with the review later and says they will do, in the comment space beneath, will get it sent to them free to keep. Preference is given to the literate, I am afraid.
I was also blown away by the posh Phonak Audéo PFE 232 earphones (and so I should think at £400 odd!) but as yet no real feedback to my outrageous suggestion that using them with no filters in was the loudest and clearest! They are made to take the transfer function of your actual ear-Pinna into account
I have some new kit here and as ever a slew to review. The Parrot Asteroid is still on my bench having been ‘˜Christmassed’ or delayed, basically, so that is in order good n’soon.
As I type, Andy Lee from Trafficmaster is upgrading/fixing my on board mega-nav/tracker/speed trap locator. I had experienced problems with the aerial being located at the top of the nearside of the screen (it turned out to be a type that had issues with some examples, of which mine appears to have been one) and it is being replaced with a different model altogether and placed in the middle of the windscreen. Also, it was blanking the touchscreen upon selecting high beam, which was crap when coming back from fishing remote locations at night and was a simple fault by a subcontractor at first install. I had been worried about writing a rough review for the system but that looks like it may not be an issue and I can get onto assessing the new kit and publishing.
And lastly and vastly, do you recall Jamie Oliver and the Turkey Twizzler? A rubbish product devoid of any goodness and was destroyed as a concept by the Olly Meister. Well, I have learned about a new kind of rubbish-cheap bass box MADE OF COMPRESSED CARDBOARD! Examples have been bought and tried and they are literally tripe. A perfect example of a John Ruskin Fail. ‘There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.’
And of course, ‘When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.’ And while the Turkey Twizzler was devoid of nourishment value, I fear these compress card bass boxes may be in the latter quote’s domain.
So I am getting a couple sent to me and will test them properly to see if they are the best thing since Carbon Fibre, or if they are a piffling rip off. It’s a Crusade…which is as close to prejudged as you’ll get me. My source is impeccable.
Adam Rayner Online Editor