Hi Terry,
Terry Smith wrote in a message to Michele Wilson...
 MW> into the recording side of audio you should try to keep up with
 MW> what is going on with car and home audio.  You should keep up
 MW> with the new products and how they perform.  That way when you
 MW> seek out someone with a good cer stereo system...you know that
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 TS> Sorry to blow away a fantasy, but crappy OEM car systems and
 TS> department store (lack of) quality stereos are really more important
 TS> as targets of broadcast and retailed audio product than good quality
 TS> systems.  One of the challenges of professional producing is to
 TS> optimize product for such crap, while making it sound tolerable on
 TS> better systems.
THanks for throwing that in there.  I find that the autombile is the 
lousiest place to try to critically listen to music anyway.  
Lowest common denominator is fine for mixing,
but the automobile is not a good listening environment no matter how you 
slice it.  
As I said to him, I've little interest in the autosound industry, or any 
of the goings on with it.  
I'mn more interested in copping a better sound for communications gear 
while on the road,
as it's far more important to be able to communicate on the road than it 
is to me to have 
kicking stereo.  
 TS> The latest craze or innovation also rarely matters as much as the
 TS> installed product base from the last ten plus years.
This is true, also.  Most folks, if their vehicle doesn't have what they 
want,
just go grab a tape deck or in-dash cd player and slap it in, if that.  
HIgh-end car audio is just high bucks, as far as I can tell. 
REgards,
Richard Webb
... Karaoke is a Japanese word meaning "tone deaf".
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