Post your audio/video/etc. thread

[reunited]

I think this thread is a good idea. Perhaps there may be an opportunity to improve on this idea in the creation of a sub-forum which would be a searchable data base of installed systems. I believe that given:

1. The decreasing number of brick & mortar shops

2. The reduction in number of brands (particularly high end) carried by these shops.

3. The unique accoustical characteristics of our cars (very small volume (51 cubic feet)), large amount of cabin gain, ambient sound levels (road noise primarily), etc., makes quality purchasing decisions based on hearing systems on sound boards or in radically dissimilar cars at the audio shop dealer difficult...

Purchase decisions are today are increasingly becoming nothing more than informed guesses and hopes.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but considering we are a tight knit community, I think a lot of forum contributors would gladly enter their components into the searchable data base and allow THEIR systems to be demoed to other forum users if they had the reciprocal ability to hear the components THEY are evaluating in another forum member's Z.

In any case, my system consists of:

Front stage: Dynaudio 242GT
Subwoofer: Alpine SWR-10T in stealth MDF ring spare tire enclosure
Front stage amp: ARC KS300.4 (bridged, 400w)
Sub amp: ARC KS300.2 (bridged, 700w)
LOC/EQ: Audio Control LCQ-1
Wiring: Stinger

PS: The ARC amps replaced an RF 600-4 which will be posted for sale on DIYMA in a few days. If you're interested, before it gets posted over there, please PM me. Amp does 123w per channel, never mounted, and has about 25 hours of (easy) use.

Bill