confession time

Dear all,

I'm not the type of person for impulse buying but for some reason i
found myself strangely drawn into the local motor accesories shop while
on an errand for work yesterday.

Now don't ask me what the hell I was thinking but for some reason I
must have thought that I was 18 again and drove a 1.1LX Fiesta with
"wide boy" body kit or something, not a RRC Tdi, and saw one of those
subwoofer bass box / amp kits, i just had to have it........oh dear.

I spent a couple of hours wiring it in last night after work (requires
8mm power cable which goes straight to the battery!), massive amp woth
lots of flashing lights (it goes up to 11!) and i tell you, what
childish fun I have had today!! The Alpine stereo head unit I have has
a "subwoofer control" function which I seriously abused on the way
home. I couldn't resist the look on the faces of the "yoofs" at the
local bus stop when I stopped in traffic with all the windows down and
turned the vol up. Hilarious fun.

In all seriousness though, the addition of sound quality when properly
adjusted is amazing.

Whats not so fun is that the boot of the Range Rover, already
containing a box of spares and a tool box is now completely full. We
had to take the missus' VW hatchback to Tesco's she wasn't best
pleased............

I'm sure that someone out there has bought something worse..........
please?

Maybe a chrome bull bar or some stick on mud? *achhhh*

Mind you at least i'm not having dreams about other alt.fan.landrover
users...........yet

D

On 18 Jan 2006 13:59:46 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

>(it goes up to 11!)

Lurve Spinal Tap references wherever I can find them - as did the late
Jim Marshall to whom the /original/ joke was aimed.

ah, i wondered what well rounded person would pick up on that . I'll
have sweet dreams tonight now......not about anyone on the group though

With regards to Spinal Tap, I think Clam Caravan was a particular
favourite of mine

[email protected] wrote:

> I'm sure that someone out there has bought something worse..........
> please?

Anyone who has ever bought a radio for a series vehicle (me included)
has done something even more pointless. ;-)


--
EMB

[email protected] wrote:

> I'm sure that someone out there has bought something worse..........
> please?
>


......stick on bullet holes......

Which reminds me...... of the time I tried installing a a radio in my
SIIa, I'd already built a box in plywood between the front seats of
which I was particularly proud of! Then I recuperated an old radio...
which ran off 24v, I thought I'd be clever and install this thing in
the box with a resistor to reduce the voltage, shortly after someone
told me my Landy was smoking! Needless to say there was a large hole
burnt in the bottom of the box... For the 20mins it did work couldn't
here the B thing anyway!

--
....tone

D wrote ((snip))
>
>
> Now don't ask me what the hell I was thinking but for some reason I
> must have thought that I was 18 again and drove a 1.1LX Fiesta with
> "wide boy" body kit or something, not a RRC Tdi, and saw one of those
> subwoofer bass box / amp kits, i just had to have it........oh dear.
>

Living as I do near a railway crossing (100yds) I get woken up on a regular
basis by such bass units, when there's a few in the queue all playing
different crap music it can get very annoying.
Especially as I seldom drive with a radio on.
Personally I think it should be part of the MOT, if the stereo, with
everything connected, can be heard more than 10ft from the vehicle when it's
on full volume, then it fails. It' just another form of pollution after all.

--
Regards
Bob
1974 S111 SWB 2.25 petrol Hardtop (For Sale)
1987 90 2.5 petrol Hardtop

On 18 Jan 2006 13:59:46 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

> I couldn't resist the look on the faces of the "yoofs" at the
> local bus stop when I stopped in traffic with all the windows down
> and turned the vol up. Hilarious fun.

He he, I must try winding up the built in system of the DII and
walking away at some point to see how much thump thump thump it
produces. It can easily, and completely, drown out the road and engine
noise on the motorway. OK it's a DII ES TD5 so not as noisy as a
Defender or Series but it isn't quiet by modern standards.

If you want a track to give that sub a work out try track 3 or 4 on
disc one the Now 63 CD. (I think, it's No.1 Daughters, honest).

--
Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

On 18 Jan 2006 13:59:46 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

>Dear all,
>

>
>I spent a couple of hours wiring it in last night after work (requires
>8mm power cable which goes straight to the battery!), massive amp woth
>lots of flashing lights (it goes up to 11!) and i tell you, what
>childish fun I have had today!! The Alpine stereo head unit I have has
>a "subwoofer control" function which I seriously abused on the way
>home. I couldn't resist the look on the faces of the "yoofs" at the
>local bus stop when I stopped in traffic with all the windows down and
>turned the vol up. Hilarious fun.
>

It loses some of the street cred if you're pumping out Bing Crosby's
Greatest Hits.....

Alex

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:03:02 +1300, EMB <[email protected]> wrote:

>[email protected] wrote:
>
>> I'm sure that someone out there has bought something worse..........
>> please?
>
>Anyone who has ever bought a radio for a series vehicle (me included)
>has done something even more pointless. ;-)

You have to fit an amp too so you can hear it!. Fitting a sub in a
diesel vehicle kind of cancels out a lot of the diesel rattle too

Alex <[email protected]> wrote:

> ... pumping out Bing Crosby's
> Greatest Hits.....

Hits? there's more than one?

--
William Tasso

110 V8

in article [email protected], Dave
Liquorice at [email protected] wrote on 19/1/06 12:08 am:

> On 18 Jan 2006 13:59:46 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I couldn't resist the look on the faces of the "yoofs" at the
>> local bus stop when I stopped in traffic with all the windows down
>> and turned the vol up. Hilarious fun.
>
> He he, I must try winding up the built in system of the DII and
> walking away at some point to see how much thump thump thump it
> produces. It can easily, and completely, drown out the road and engine
> noise on the motorway. OK it's a DII ES TD5 so not as noisy as a
> Defender or Series but it isn't quiet by modern standards.
>
> If you want a track to give that sub a work out try track 3 or 4 on
> disc one the Now 63 CD. (I think, it's No.1 Daughters, honest).


We've banned any albums that belong to our girls in the Discovery.
AC/DC, Green Day or The Air Guitar CD's are the selection at present because
we have to listen to enough of their choice in the house....one upstairs
with CD player, one in livivng room on another cd player and another
updating ipod in the kitchen where the computer also is.
--
Nikki

2000 Discovery V8
1990 Discovery V8
1979 Lightweight 2.25 petrol
1976 Series lll 2.25 petrol - in need of repair

Tom Woods wrote:

> You have to fit an amp too so you can hear it!. Fitting a sub in a
> diesel vehicle kind of cancels out a lot of the diesel rattle too

By which stage the audio gear is worth more than the vehicle in which it
is mounted!


--
EMB

My radio/casette player in the Series One Is a "boombox " wired straght
to the battery through the plugs in the dash held in with bungee
strops!

Works well and I can leave it in the cab, which is currently topless,
with out fear of it gettting nicked!

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:07:37 -0000, "Bob Hobden" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Living as I do near a railway crossing (100yds) I get woken up on a regular
>basis by such bass units, when there's a few in the queue all playing
>different crap music it can get very annoying.

Time to dig out the old issues of Practical Wireless - build summat to
give them a shock? Either that or some kind of EMP cannon?

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 02:28:51 GMT, Nikki wrote:

>> If you want a track to give that sub a work out try track 3 or 4 on
>> disc one the Now 63 CD. (I think, it's No.1 Daughters, honest).
>
> We've banned any albums that belong to our girls in the Discovery.

Purely for the sake of research you understand. It's track 3 BTW on
Now 62. Something called "Don't cha" by Pussycat Dolls Feat & Busta
Rymes. I've noted it in case I ever get to play with a decent full
bandwidth PA system, something small with just 10kW per stack would
do.

> we have to listen to enough of their choice in the house...

No.1 Daughter is 9 today, she is pretty sensible and the (to some
extent deliberate) cheap 'n cheerful CD/Radio/Clock she has doesn't go
all that loud.

No.1 Son has yet to show any interest in having his own CD machine.

--
Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

On 18 Jan 2006 22:24:32 -0800, "Rory" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>My radio/casette player in the Series One Is a "boombox " wired straght
>to the battery through the plugs in the dash held in with bungee
>strops!
>
>Works well and I can leave it in the cab, which is currently topless,
>with out fear of it gettting nicked!

Are you in the UK? How are you driving round at this time of year in a
topless landy without getting very cold and wet?
I could cope with the cold but i think the wet would annoy me. I
already have a wet drivers seat when i get in the landy and i have a
roof on!

"Mother" wrote after "Bob Hobden" ranted
>
>>Living as I do near a railway crossing (100yds) I get woken up on a
>>regular
>>basis by such bass units, when there's a few in the queue all playing
>>different crap music it can get very annoying.
>
> Time to dig out the old issues of Practical Wireless - build summat to
> give them a shock? Either that or some kind of EMP cannon?
>
I've been thinking about that for some while, a jamming device or something
to overload the system, but how to zap a unit playing a CD or MP3? :-(
It's the fact that it would be me getting my collar felt that puts me off.

--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:42:11 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> said:

> Time to dig out the old issues of Practical Wireless - build summat
> to give them a shock? Either that or some kind of EMP cannon?

I can't remember anything that interesting in my old copies of PW,
dating back to 1970. An excellent way to waste several hours when your
should be doing something useful by marvelling at all the old adverts
after finding the box in the loft.

How Much?

Why have they pasted a couple of ICs onto her nipples?

And all the valve powered army surplus stuff that was still on the
market then.


--
Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/
"Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:22:02 +0000, [email protected] (Alan J. Wylie)
wrote:

>I can't remember anything that interesting in my old copies of PW,
>dating back to 1970. An excellent way to waste several hours when your
>should be doing something useful by marvelling at all the old adverts
>after finding the box in the loft.

Oh how I REALLY wish I'd kept all of my old PW, Everyday Electronics
and other assorted, probably quite sad and geeky magazines :-(