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Tuner Evolution 2008 Pictures Posted!

While I spent this past Saturday judging IASCA cars, Mike and Billie spend the day walking around the Tuner Evolution show and taking pictures for your enjoyment! The interior lightening was horrible, and we didn't bring the big flash, so I may be editing some of the pictures to make them slightly...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 05-19-2008
Great Albums for Testing Your Car's Sound Quality

There are a number of judging CD's published by Car Audio Sanctioning bodies, including the disks by IASCA , MECA and USACi . Most of them have some good tracks to test the dynamics, imaging and other important things. The good thing is that there are generally awesome liner notes attached to those...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 05-16-2008
A Monster Trademark

For my day job, I have undergone training on Trademarks and Intellectual Property . And we have some pretty strict rules about how we call our products, etc... And as an employee, we have to be very careful so as not to invalidate the trademarks, some of which are brands worth billions of dollars...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 05-15-2008
Weekend Plans?

Car Audio Show Season is finally heating up here in the Mid-Atlantic. So this weekend I am headed to Tuner Evolution on Saturday, May 17th, 2008 to judge Sound Quality for the IASCA Portion of the show sponsored by Town Sound . Greg Kitching from Town Sound has been a long time Car Audio fanatic...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 05-15-2008
Old School Install - McIntosh All the Way!

I am a huge fan of the old school audio equipment, the gear from the “golden era” of car audio, a time when dozens of boutique manufactures were popping up everywhere. OK, who remembers names like Linear Power, Veritas, or USD Audio? Even some of the larger brands that are still around today...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 05-12-2008
You ever picked a car based upon the ease of stereo installation?

I was reading Andy Jone's Post on his Altima , and one of his comments regarding his factory kick panels really made me laugh: " Thank you Nissan for not putting a bunch of stupid wires down there. " Sure enough, the Altima's kick panel was VERY bare, which makes upgrades like custom...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 05-12-2008
CAN II Judge's Primer

Buying stuff on eBay is like buying a pig at a poke. Sometimes you get the short end of the stick and sometimes you get more than you expect. I won an auction on eBay for an original CAN CD before Spring Break Nationals. I personally would have been happy just getting the CD, but it came complete with...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 04-20-2008
New SpeakSpeak Illuminator Speakers Coming Soon!

Tons of high end home and car audio manufactures use ScanSpeak Speakers as the basis for their speakers. The Alpine F#1 Speakers and Genesis Absolute Series are both based on the very successful and long running ScanSpeak Relevator. After several years of research and development, Scan Speak is launching...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 04-19-2008
Long Term Review: Sync by Microsoft

I travel for my day job. A lot. Too much. And with that being the case, I often rent cars. As a matter of fact Avis told me I rented 48 cars in 52 weeks from them. So I get to ride in a bunch of cars. Some of them are way cool and some of them are WAY lame. I have heard a TON about Sync powered by Microsoft...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 04-17-2008
Building Your Own Laptop RTA

I really love my AudioControl 3055/3056. The unit is ultra dependable and VERY easy to use and learn. But even used ones are pretty pricey for me to get by my CFO. (wife) However, I can trickle purchases in and she doesn’t seem to mind. Also when tweaking, I want more granularity than 1/3 octave...

Posted to Car Audio Nationals (Weblog) by BenVollmer on 04-16-2008

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