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echo: audio
to: MATT ION
from: DREW HOHMANN
date: 1996-07-17 21:29:00
subject: Re: CAR AUDIO

-> JJ> First let me say I'm not a total boomer, blasting 1000watts of
-> pure JJ> THD or anything, but I do like it loud. But the outlaw spl
-> is (imo) JJ> meaningless... I mean, I have seen a car with 2 12" JL
-> W-1's in a JJ> bandpass box hit just under 150 in outlaw.... he stuck
-> the mic in JJ> the port.... I think it's just a way for people to
-> inflate their JJ> egos. But that's just my opinion.
-> In the port?!  Of course he got an inflated reading!  SPL
-> measurements (and all audio measurements, for that matter) in car
-> audio are generally made from around the position of the driver's
-> headrest.
I wonder how many people going for SPL measurements put a couple of
nice, sensitive horns about 4" from the drivers headrest.  Or a pair
of JBL 2443 (I believe that's the right number.  The ones with
1500w rms ratings :) speakers would do nicely.
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