Today started early with my son deciding to wake up at 4:00 am. After packing some of my favorite CD's and heading to the airport, the trip started. My plans were to fly from Atlanta to Memphis, TN, where I would meet up with Andy Jones and complete the rest of the trip by car. So in less than an hour I flew from Atlanta to Memphis where Andy picked me up and we headed to Neely's BBQ and ate some awesome Barbeque.
After stuffing ourselves at Neely's, we headed over to Memphis Car Audio in downtown Memphis. Memphis is one of the oldest brand in car audio that I can think of. They have a long series of first's including the First 4 Track Player, 8 Track Player, and many many more. Amiee and Jimmy set us up on an awesome tour of the facility and a peek at some of their new products and existing products. Memphis is one brand under the Arthur Fulmer Companies, with the other one being the Fulmer Motorcycle Helmet Company.
The first place that they took Andy and I to, was the board room with a collection of current Memphis products. One of the cool thing was their new "Thin" Subwoofer that should be hitting the shelves soon. In addition, they had their new component setup and two of their very sexy amplifiers.
Here are some pictures of the cut away version of their new sub you will be seeing soon. I can't wait to hear it!
Here is a pretty cool helmet only available to Memphis Car Audio Dealers. We were told last years was based upon the Memphis Sponsored Drift car and was VERY popular with the dealers.
They also have a line of interconnects and wiring, which was VERY cool. I didn't even know that they made them. Andy, being older than me, remember the old Fultron wiring being Orange and it still is!
We also got to see the replacement cone for the Memphis MoJo subwoofer. Way cool the way the piece just snaps back into the rest of the assembly.
We finally got into the hotel around 2:30 am. We could have gotten here about an hour soon if the cheap GPS that Andy brought with him would have worked a little better. It redirected us to non toll roads, which added an hour to the trip. So my advice would be NEVER get a TomTom One. My Windows Live Search on my BlackJack II had the right route, but Andy isn't good at taking directions. :-) Bad TomTom.
So after being up for 23 hours, we are headed to bed. Will have more from Mark's Sound Quality seminar tomorrow!