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Old Jun 16, 2006 | 01:03 AM
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Originally Posted by password lost
Do any of you guys have footage from the days at Empire Stadium? How about A&B Sound Plaza of Nations Loud and Proud sound offs? Randy Hirvonen <sp?> days.... Mike Freebase, remember him? Wow, those were the days.
I have pics, but no video.


BTW: do you mean Mike Freeman?
Old Jun 16, 2006 | 02:21 PM
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haha good stuff. man that wiper moved....
Old Jun 16, 2006 | 03:04 PM
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Look at that wiper bounce.....well for some of us, in that day it was a big thing. For the younger generation of this site, I am sure they are all laughing their collective ***** off right now.

You know it.. Back in 'the day' pulling a smokin 135db would win most SPL events - and that included cars with walls in them..
Old Jun 16, 2006 | 04:09 PM
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damn i would be a crowd favorite in that show with 1600 watts and my brand new 86 celica hahaha
Old Jun 17, 2006 | 12:46 AM
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Well........ The Dodge Colt only has 2/ 12" Cerwin Vega dual VC subs. powered by a Nakamichi 400M @ 220WRMS per sub = 440WRMS (ported enclosure). the front end is powered by a Zapco 150/200 with ESM module = 100W x 2 and the rear Nakamichi PA-300II 75x2. Total power= 790Watts RMS not huge power by any means.

And SPL back then is done with "music" .

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Old Jun 20, 2006 | 03:07 AM
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^ Oops Correction.

The 12' dual voice coil CV were put in later, along with replacing the Zapco 150/200 with another Nakamichi 300II.

During the 86-87 shows..... Actually the Turbo Colt was running two 10" MTX polypropolene cone 4 ohms subs (MTX very 1st series). and power wise will be 160W from the Nakamichi 400M x2 = 320W, Total system power is: 670wrms
Old Jun 20, 2006 | 11:38 AM
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Anything over 500W RMS back then was a lot of power. And expensive too. No class-D 1500W China-made crap back then. The most popular classes back then was the 100-250 or 250-500 class. Mostly saw 1 or 2 amp systems.
Old Jun 20, 2006 | 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by SUX 2BU
Anything over 500W RMS back then was a lot of power. And expensive too. No class-D 1500W China-made crap back then. The most popular classes back then was the 100-250 or 250-500 class. Mostly saw 1 or 2 amp systems.
Actually...... not too much have really changed. there were bi-amp, tri-amp and quad-amp systems back then. and average power is about 500W-700W, but the system plays just as loud in the mid/hi region. only maybe the bass are a bit lower in SPL and the installs are not as flashy compare to nowadays.

Here's some pics from the "1981 CES". featuring Audiomobile demo cars.




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Old Jun 20, 2006 | 02:13 PM
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is that alphasonic stuff?
Old Jun 20, 2006 | 02:52 PM
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^ nope!...... they're Audiomobile. A company consist of Paul Stary, Larry Frederick(was with Phoenix Gold, and is responsible for the PG's reputation it is today & all the MS series amps, electronics etc), Rich Coe ( was with Alpine in 78 or so, and is responsible for the product like the 7909 CD player & 3545 Amplifier, which are Alpine 1st true high-end Audiophile products),and John Biship (was with ADS, and is responsible for all the multi channel amps, and the 320-i speakers etc.)



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