Erin's 2006 Civic Sedan

[Babs]

I kinda sorta shared that review with Kenwood USA by the way since we kinda been chatting. Told them before I'm rooting for the head unit market to catch up with the current desires of guys like us who are already rocking an outboard DSP as a given.

The perfect head unit for us weirdo's who buy car audio for the 'audio' part, would really be kinda simple wouldn't it. Killer screen, killer sound, leave the tuning stuffs out for the little device downstream.


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[erinh]

Helix Pro mk2 arrived at my dealer yesterday. Picked it up today. Will run analog in to the DSP and needed some RCAs from the DSP to the amps so picked up some sets of 1.5ft Stinger 9000 series just to keep the current trend. At this point the p99 is still in the car.

[BigAl205]

I call dibs for when you sell it!

[erinh]

Ok! I hope I remember!

[erinh]

not car related but still wanted to share...


I picked up this sweet 22" Mcintosh Neon Curtis clock last week. I thought it would look awesome in the HT. Still need to find a place to hang it.

[erinh]

Merry Christmas homies!

[subwoofery]

Merry Christmas homies!

Same to you dawg

Kelvin

[Rockinridgeline]

Merry Christmas!

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[erinh]

When I was a kid I used to love the movie "The Wizard". Some of you guys may remember it... basically it was an hour and a half long commercial for Nintendo. But it was awesome to me as a kid. One of the kids in the movie wanted to go to this place in California with a pair of big ol' Dinosaurs (no spoiler alerts as to why). This place is known as the Cabazon Dinosaurs. It's featured in other movies such as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

Why does this matter and why is it in a car audio build log? Well, because the Cabazon 'saurs are also featured in the music video for my favorite song of all time: Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World".

This past October we took a trip to Disneyland in Anaheim. A few weeks before we left, I remembered the dinosaurs so I got online to see where they were. Turns out they were only about 1.5 hours out of the way (one-way) from LAX to Anaheim, so I convinced my wife we needed to make the detour out there. She was totally down for it so we made it happen. It was really cool to see in person and finally check it off my bucket list.


Here's a screenshot of the music video with the dinosaurs in the background:






And here's a couple pictures I took when we got there:

[erinh]

I finally got around to replacing the blue diffused LEDs I put in the mc amp with white ones. The blue looked washed out and literally hurt your eyes from far away. Up close (ie; head in the trunk) it was fine but otherwise the letters/numbers on the meters were just washed out.* and pictures of the amp looked crazy because of it.* So, yea, I swapped the blue diffused LEDs for regular white ones.







This is what I mean when I say the blue LEDs made the meters looked washed out. In person the blue *popped* but the text was nearly illegible because of the eye strain and getting a good picture of them was next to impossible.





This is how they look now. I definitely like them more now.