Oh golly, I have always done things my way, and my IASCA scores for install showed it. A little creativity and practice yield lots of capability. I'm also lucky to have been around for the Maker Movement before it blew up and became this weird corporate burning man thing. When it was starting, it was just a collection of tinkers showing off their home projects on folding tables in a warehouse. Lots of free flowing ideas from amateurs.
This car is a shadow of wild ideas executed in the past. Last car had a 4x12 processor in the form of two DCX2496's converted to 12V operation. fed by a DEQ2496 with digital EQ, compression/expansion, 100 db/oct filters for feedback control (but were amazing notch filters), etc. I ran a Nakamichi CD player who's design was based on all the faceplate buttons being on a resistor ladder. So I installed no less than 15 buttons in my steering wheel and ran them through the same clockspring wire as the existing steering wheel controls and hacked the Nak unit so I could control 100% of the CD player (21 buttons or so) from the steering wheel. I could go on for days about the alarm.
This car I keep simple, mostly because it's an AMG TOO fancy in the aftermarket messes up the flow of the car. And at the end of the day, the flow of the car is what it's all about!