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Matt “thejoose” Sprigg Lands Ground Zero Sponsorship

Matt Sprigg, known as thejoose on the Talk Audio forums has just sold his soul! Well it isn't really a full deal-with-the-devil job, it's with Connects2, the UK distributors of the hugely potent Ground Zero brand of car audio kit. They are in fact possible whole-industry-future saviours as makers… Read more

Celsus to Drive Dynamat in Europe

From January 2010 Celsus UK Limited, a leading national supplier of in-car audio fitting solutions and UK distributor of prestigious brands JL Audio, Dynamat, MTX, Stinger, PAC, Calearo and Jehnert, has been appointed to head up the European distribution of the Dynamat brand. Dynamic Control of North America, Inc. has… Read more

New Sound Deadening from Silent Coat

Silent Coat is the new exciting sound deadening brand from Car Audio Direct. The materials were originally designed for use in submarines! The effective damping of noise and resonance ensures the submarines are acoustically invisible. This particular technology has been the Soviet Army's military secret for many years, but the… Read more

Genesis’ Cunning OEM Integration Unit

Apogee Electronics, the company that is now in charge of the genius Genesis Ice brand wanted to let you know about the designer's latest slice of pure cunning. In a world with so few headunits now able to fit into modern cars but yet with a strong need to be… Read more

Hertz SX300D SPL Show 12 inch Subwoofer (£349.99)

Designed for competition and dynamic SPL performance, Hertz' SPL Show subwoofers are "acoustic pressure generators": The ideal solution for building systems with bags full of bass as well as state-of-the-art design in the Hertz tradition. The SX 300D handles up to 3,200 Watts max, offering dual 2 ohm impedance voice… Read more

Ready Made Extreme Van Canvas

Rob & Suzy Hammond were dead famous in the Nineties as they were the first true Extreme SPL team that was husband and wife! They famously made 150dB with then seen-only-as-budget brand ProPlus Sound and have done some mad stuff since. Rob is the engineer and Suzy is most… Read more

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Week Six, Clever Pioneer Tricks

Monday, 08 February 2010

Well it was a gripping end to last week, with my befriending a dangerously canny bloke to help me unscrew the digital whichness of what of the Pioneer DEH-P8100BT headunit. As well as all the usual audio testing, we tried the unit in three different rigs, including his car. The conclusions were interesting and we'll try and get the review up this week. So I owe a debt of thanks to forum user Graham, known as pc99, who is a software developer for a university department in the home counties who came to gang up on this with me.

I have some additional news to bring you regarding some new Pioneer headunits (as well as the review of the 8100) and there's a new Alpine demo car around for the upcoming Auto Sound & Style Show. It was the subject of a seven day and night competitive build-off in Germany and was the winning car. I fancy a full feature on that one. There's the full system diagram of Project Big Black to show you now that thejoose has seen how much cubic he has in the mighty Pajero. It's certainly causing a fuss on the forum and a good few folks have been off checking out Matt's blog about the build. The plot is that it'll be at the show with the wiring being done right there and hopefully ready for the Modified Nationals show in May (28th 29th and 30th).

The long promised test boxes ought to be ready within a few days now, so that big old pile of coaxes in the loft will see some action as I plan to try a whole bunch of simple coaxial replacement speakers. The sort you use if you are not ready to commit to using component speakers. And of course, there is that twelve inch woofer destruction-test I still fancy once the weather's nice enough to go use the old fridge at Entec (wrote their site BTW!) to blow woofers up inside!

Exciting news also due from Celsus Ice this week, to do with iconic cabling brand Stinger...

I'll go get on then....

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The original BoomZilla graphic art strip was born in Car Stereo & Security magazine (Which can be seen here in pauljolee’s Old Skool Car Audio mags… Read more

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