Audio Junkies

I'm in the market for a new amp to go in the house, and I got to thinking... Anyone know if Steve ever had his hand in making any home audio amplifiers? I know he does A LOT of contracting and designing for other companies and I figured he must have made some over the years. I'll probably give him a shout during the week and ask him personally, but thought someone on here might know as well. I'd love to have a Zed amp in the house.

Looks good. No love for the Mags though?

Nice! That chopped door is pretty cool looking, don't see that too often.

Yeah, you're right. For some reason I was thinking the SSA prototype posted here already had a different name.

Just saw this banner... Is the Icon another new driver?

I've got a couple spares from an install I am doing without the remotes. Let me know if you want one.

I got my samples from Armstrong, and they look like crap. I'm amazed they market this stuff as having a "metallic" finish.

Pics from day 2 are now up.

Hahaha, I'm having problems hotlinking to the gallery pics. See above for a direct gallery link for now.

Sorry about that, the file names changed. I'll fix them right now.

I'm uploading more pics right now and I'll post some on here tonight. Good show though and I looking forward to the SPL vehicles tomorrow.

This morning we got pics of quite a few of the show cars coming in. I got to sit inside the MTX Escalade with two Jackhammers and damn that thing is loud. It isn't a competition vehicle of course, but for a show car that thing pounds. I'll be back on this afternoon to post more pictures and details about all the cars. Here are some pics for now though... *EDIT: I'm having problems hot linking to the gallery, so here is a direct link for now... SBN 2007 Gallery

Robert- thank you very much for the info. Those two places you linked have some amazing laminate finishes. I'm ordering up some samples right now.

Here you go...

Wow, I'd kill to check his soundroom out. Care to give any details on what exactly he has? I've got a 25" Tsuzureko that I have been saving for a rainy day and I also have a pretty large space under the stairway in our house...

Hahaha, too true. I really have zero experience with IB though. Where is a good place to read up on it without all the BS? I already did some searches and didn't really find anything that was very thorough.

For sure. Let me know what color the vans are so I can be on the lookout for you guys.

Just got off of the phone with a guy that does acrylic fishtanks. He said all of the plastic derivitives (lexan, plexi, etc.) pretty much suck for subwoofer enclosures because of the way they resonate. The cheapest I could get an acrylic enclosure for was $600 anyways, so that is out of the question. This subwoofer will be used with my Magnepan's, and from what I have read IB setups will not be as clean as a sealed enclosure. The Maggie guys seem to prefer sealed enclosures. To be honest I have never heard a good IB setup in person though.

I'll be totin around the camera and laptop doing as many live updates as possible. Should be some good stuff this weekend. I'll have my AJ shirt on as well, so if any of you guys see me be sure to say hi.

I'd want to do the whole enclosure in the same material. I've also been toying with the idea of having a clear plexiglass enclosure made for a while. I've got a local connection that might be able to do it and give me a discount. I'm afraid even with a discount it might be pretty expensive though. Basically I'm just looking for something you don't see everyday. I've got my heart set on a LMS4000 or LMS4100 and want to show it off.

So how'd you do?

Thanks for the help guys. M5- how hard are those granite tiles to cut and do I need anything special (tile saw)? Also, will Lowe's or HD cut them to size for me? I imagine it would be much easier to just use vinyl tiles. Check out this color shifting Chrome Granite VCT from Armstrong... (halfway down) http://www.armstrong.com/commflooringna/lu...inyl-floors.jsp

I'm diggin the finish on this enclosure... It appears to be some sort of tile or kitchen counter material. How hard do you guys think it would be to do something similar? I'm seriously considering it.

Zed does make the CDT amps. They look just like rebadged versions of the Zed amps and if I remember correctly the specs were very similar. I would just buy the Zed amps and save some money since the CDT's are more expensive.

Jacob, I just remembered TRU does their side fins like I was mentioning before...