Now that the front door speakers were in -- and we could ably demonstrate the difference between the front aftermarket and rear factory speakers -- it was time to install the new rear speakers. Matt and I decided that this next phase would be big; not only would we be mounting JL Audio C2-650X full-range...
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Filed under: GMC, wiring harness, Yukon, Hi-Fi 2.0, GMC Yukon, power cable, Dynamat, StreetWires, car amplifiers, Matt Freeman, woofer, JL Audio, Sokoband, Mike Sokolowski, high fidelity, Keith Jarrett Trio, Gary Peacock, ProWedge, 12-gauge speaker wire, JL Audio CLS110RG-W7, EOS Digital Rebel XSi SLR camera, Outfit My Car, Jack DeJohnette, acoustic bass, symphony, HD 900/5 five-channel amplifier, upright bass, UltraFlow, electronic beats, piano, subwoofer, capacitor, JL Audio C2-650X
OK, so we finally got the video formatting worked out. It's very informal; Matt sat in the back seat with the Canon XSi camera capturing our back-to-front-and-back-again fading demo by moving the camera's built-in microphone forward and backward along with the fades. We're listening for sonic...
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on Mon, Sep 14 2009
Filed under: GMC, Alpine, CDA-9887, Yukon, Hi-Fi 2.0, GMC Yukon, Matt Freeman, Jiriki, video demonstration, woofer, C2 components, JL Audio, Sokoband, Michael Sokolowski, Mike Sokolowski, tweeter
"So what's the deal with SACDs?" a friend asked recently. "I'm looking for a new disc player, but I never see SACDs in the stores. Should I even bother getting an SACD player?" He had a lot of questions, and I answered them as best I could. I told him that the SACD format...
In keeping with our goal of achieving high-fidelity sound without springing for the “high end” (JL Audio ZR series, Polk Audio Signature Reference, the crazy-good Focal Utopia Be, etc) we chose to install a set of the brand-new JL Audio C2 650 components in the Yukon’s front doors....
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on Mon, Jul 27 2009
Filed under: Soko, wiring harness, Alpine, CDA-9887, Yukon, Hi-Fi 2.0, GMC Yukon, Dynamat, Matt Freeman, Jiriki, component system, video demonstration, woofer, C2 components, JL Audio, Sokoband, Michael Sokolowski, Boom Mat, acoustic baffles, Mike Sokolowski, tweeter, high fidelity
Some conclusions from Gizmodo's Great MP3 Bitrate Tes t caught our attention, particularly as it affirms what we've been saying with Hi-Fi 2.0 . In the test, Gizmodo, the Gadget Blog , provided three selections encoded at eight different bitrates. There were seven different versions of MP3, ranging...
A recent post to Gizmodo, the Gadget Blog articulated part of what we're striving for with Hi-Fi 2.0 . In " Why We Need Audiophiles " associate editor John Mahoney chronicles his visit to equipment and music reviewer Michael Fremer . Mahoney writes about what it's like to truly hear your music. The post...
So a couple of weeks ago we made some major headway on the project. Matt Freeman, our mobile electronics catalog editor and Michael Richardson, Crutchfield mobile installer extraordinaire, and I spent a day double-lining each door with Dynamat Xtreme and routing the 1/0 Streetwires Ultra Flow power cable...
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on Thu, May 7 2009
Filed under: Soko, Yukon, Hi-Fi 2.0, power cable, Dynamat, StreetWires, Ultra Flow, quiet ride, car amplifiers, Matt Freeman, Michael Richardson