[sdiy] Car stereo play-the-loudest-championship!

[Tim Parkhurst]

On 4/27/07, David Cornutt <cornutt at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> On Apr 26, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Tim Parkhurst wrote:
>
> > In practice however, I
> > think it comes down to "play a bunch of tunes and see what sounds /
> > feels loudest." Oh, and the tune has to have lots of thumpin' bass.
> > ;-)
> >
>
> I watched a documentary about that once...  Actually, the systems they
> use are very sharply tuned to play a specific tone.  They aren't capable
> of playing music at all.
>

Well, if the only criteria is sheer volume, you might as well just
stuff a big compressor and some air horns from an ocean liner into the
back of a truck. ;-) Those freaking things will deafen everybody
within a 100 yards!


Tim (the same is often said about my music) Servo
-- 
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein