Car Audio Nationals trophies are unique in competition. There are no plastic trophies here with nasty fake statuettes on them. We had a local Art and Framing shop work up some awesome designs for the preliminary event winners. Come see the trophies that the Winners of Deep South Nationals took home! (That and a purse of $500.00 to the two winners!!!)
Last week, I was introduced to HDTracks.com, which is founded by David and Norman Chesky of the audiophile record label Chesky Records, featuring thousands of artists, including Smokey Robinson, Joe Jackson, Bob James, Buddy Guy, Nina Simone, Earl Wild, Zubin Mehta, The Kinks, Of Montreal, Yo La Tengo and Jerry Garcia, from 60 independent labels around the world.
They are offering the The HDtracks Ultimate Download Experience for the month of June for FREE. After listening to these in my iPod connected to the car, there truly is a difference that is HUGE. I could actually make out the bass lines and the highs sounded just like the CD copies I used as a reference.
Music can be downloaded in high definition uncompressed AIFF or lossless FLAC format files for playback on home audio systems, including PCs, Macs or music servers, or as 320kbps mp3 files that far exceed the quality of standard mp3 files for playback on iPods and other portables.
It has been fairly common for as long as I can remember to remove the back seats from some small coupes to get more room to install Audio gear. I have lost track of the number of Mustangs, etc. that they backseats are sitting in the garage somewhere.
In part two of the DTS Dare car, we take a peek at the inside of the car. As you can see in this shot, one of the more unique parts of the car is it's amp rack. While many people try to shove five amplifiers into their trunk, Daryl and his installers took the back seat of the Crown Vic and put his amplifier and signal processors where the back seat used to reside.
We are pleased to announce that Micah Sheveloff from WRC Media, a PR firm for Consumer Electronics Companies and Bob Johann, who is better known as SoundQ SVT with his Ford Contour, have agreed to be Judges at this year's CAN Finals!!! You can their bios here. We have two more judges coming online and will be announcing them soon!
We have additional judges profiles being added on a regular basis! Check back often!
I spent all of my time at Deep South Nationals either sleeping or listening to cars. Rick Sellers put on a killer show. You can see from the show results for the Car Audio Nationals Portion that competition was fierce and the quality of the cars was high. Sean from SoundDomain was there and took a AWESOME gallery of all of the cars that attended. Click here for the SoundDomain gallery.
Moe from IASCA sent me some pictures of a 1937 Ford Coupe that he and the crew over at SoundCrafters just finished. I thought some people picked difficult vehicles, but the space available in this coupe with a full roll cage would make me cringe...
As you know, I am a HUGE VW/Audi fan. Several of the cars I have owned include the Audi 4000 and Coupe GT. In both cars, right behind the rear seat was the gas tank. And it wasn't uncommon to hear complaints from owners of the cars telling horror stories of installed drilling into their gas tanks on a fairly regular basis. How about this? Right through an Air Bag Sensor!!!
I have seen the For Sale Sign on this car for the past couple of shows. Josh has done some interesting upgrades and if you have a spare 60k laying around, check out his eBay auction. He ran this in NOPI, Hot Import Nights, IASCA, USACi and others.