canaan

Ray, Thanks for the vote of confidence, but don't I think of myself based on vehicles that I have built. I know that as an SPL competitor and audio installer...there will always be someone louder and better than me. I will always take pride in what I have done, but what I have done will always be in the past. Regardless of how mondain or great our builds may be, they will always fade away. And to tell the truth, I usually turn out basic daily-driver builds here at the shop, day in and day out. I may post some pics/vids of my most current builds here at the shop here on SMD but, if anyone wants the know what I have built from 2007-2011, just google or youtube 'Desiard St. Pawn'. I have come along way from when I first started posting vids on youtube...lol. And the little audio shop I work for has come far farther. I tend to lurk on Insider. But, given our shop's location (across from ULM campus)...I have a plethora of 'stories' that I need to post over there...lmao. I pretty much trouble-shoot and repair just as many installs as I start. We (as a shop) have pretty much become the "fixers" around town, not sure if that is good or bad for reputation.

Steve, Man...I have to say, I doubted this DD-1 awhile back over on an 'insider' forum thread. Well, I'm eating crow now. I first looked at this meter as-if it was the equivalent of setting gains at the amp's output w/ a simple 60hz 0dB tone. I originally said that the output of the amp would change based on the active load, and thus change the 'clipping point' vs a given volume level during music listening. And yes, it will...as I have shown in some of my youtube vids. Well...I miss-judged the piece of equipment. At the time that I first heard/read about it, I was so caught up in disproving the forum-non-sense of setting gains based on a single 0db tone (be it 60hz or 6khz) that I totally overlooked the premise of your DISTORTION DETECTOR. I unfairly ruled it as a basic clipping detector based on singular tones/wave-function samples. But, after seeing its true nature in action vs other equipment, my mindset has changed. I see now that your system/product is not based on testing a single or even multiple freq for simple 'clipping'. But rather it compares the total system signal to a base-line 'perfect' signal by which it is apparently calibrated. (please, correct me if I'm wrong...again) Apparently, I jumped to the wrong conclusions far to early in my hasty 'nay-saying' of this piece of equipment. I am still stuck on using my O-scope for testing, call me an OG...lol, but I'm contemplating on purchasing your DD-1 to help speed up my test and tune sessions here at the shop. I'm looking forward to further developments in the evolution of this product. -Canaan