Most common car audio myths...
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Alot of it was actually started by people in the know, who basically didn't really know and when they found out it never got filtered down to the masses.
For example capacitors for the power supply was started by People like Richard Clark, he had them in his engine compartment. So everyone goes out and gets caps and really at the time no one knew what they really did or how they best benefitted the system.
For example capacitors for the power supply was started by People like Richard Clark, he had them in his engine compartment. So everyone goes out and gets caps and really at the time no one knew what they really did or how they best benefitted the system.
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With product like Caps it quite often makes me laugh. 98% of cars I see a cap installed in, they are getting no benifit from using it.
"my cap does me wonders in my SPL" [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img] that one is funny!
Or the guy with the 1/3 octave EQ who has no idea how to tune a system, or isnt even competing.
Why do they have these? Because they were told they needed it by some false audio gods.
"my cap does me wonders in my SPL" [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img] that one is funny!
Or the guy with the 1/3 octave EQ who has no idea how to tune a system, or isnt even competing.
Why do they have these? Because they were told they needed it by some false audio gods.
Ya know what's even more humorous about the origin of the 'stiffening capacitor'? Wayne Harris, of dB Drag and Rockford fame, used those in his first competition car back in 1984 
http://www.termpro.com/showcars/eruption/eruption.html
Horses were also the origin for where the width of railway tracks came from. Horse-drawn carts were based on the width of the horse pulling it, and thus the wear patterns the wheels made to make trails. That width then transferred over to the width of railway tracks. Trivia is cool
[ February 11, 2004, 05:07 PM: Message edited by: SUX 2BU ]
http://www.termpro.com/showcars/eruption/eruption.html
Horses were also the origin for where the width of railway tracks came from. Horse-drawn carts were based on the width of the horse pulling it, and thus the wear patterns the wheels made to make trails. That width then transferred over to the width of railway tracks. Trivia is cool
[ February 11, 2004, 05:07 PM: Message edited by: SUX 2BU ]
Yankee
Joined: Jan 2001
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Ah, Caps,
We used - no - we had 36 (I think- lots) of them in the back of the 1997 bronco install. They never really helped us. So first, we just disconnected them. I hated people drawing the wrong conclusion having them in the bronco - so we removed them and lost db! We needed those suckers in there to take up space! So, in a funny way, they did help our spl.
We used - no - we had 36 (I think- lots) of them in the back of the 1997 bronco install. They never really helped us. So first, we just disconnected them. I hated people drawing the wrong conclusion having them in the bronco - so we removed them and lost db! We needed those suckers in there to take up space! So, in a funny way, they did help our spl.
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Originally posted by AZSPL:
Ah, Caps,
We used - no - we had 36 (I think- lots) of them in the back of the 1997 bronco install. They never really helped us. So first, we just disconnected them. I hated people drawing the wrong conclusion having them in the bronco - so we removed them and lost db! We needed those suckers in there to take up space! So, in a funny way, they did help our spl.
Ah, Caps,
We used - no - we had 36 (I think- lots) of them in the back of the 1997 bronco install. They never really helped us. So first, we just disconnected them. I hated people drawing the wrong conclusion having them in the bronco - so we removed them and lost db! We needed those suckers in there to take up space! So, in a funny way, they did help our spl.
