Hellbound Train Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Congrats Tony. Hell of a line up of audio work there in your history. This will definitely be a huge help to all of us with our installations and this site obviously has a man behind it with great knowledge of the audio game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enemyofsilence Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 I really like the master kits! they look awesome *bookmarked* Quote Team Bass-Hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snafu Posted January 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Thanks guys! I really did enjoy my car audio days. Here's a bit more history . . . I remember begging & pleading for a job as an installer in the '80s. I lived in Southwest MO then. Finally, a shop in Joplin, MO offered me a job for $200 / week. That shop was The Soundwave (long out of business). I thought that was all the money in town. At that time, I'd of done it for free. Prior to working there, I'd had a bunch of systems in my car (the metal in it was like Swiss cheese from all the revisions) but had no access to any of the good brands. We ran lots of Pyle speakers, built systems mainly with 6x9s in enclosures with passive radiators, and used Sunkyong amplifiers. I began using large capacitors that we robbed out of old IBM card counters to keep my dash lights from dimming . . . as early as 1986. [Keep in mind, that was about 8 years before the capacitor business existed.] When I took the job at The Soundwave, I convinced them to become a HiFonics dealer (series VII had just come out). I ordered an ISIS, a Europa, and a Pegasus (who besides TomTom will remember any of that stuff?) for my 5.0L 84 Mustang L. I built an enclosure straight out of the pages of the Loudspeaker Design Cookbook. It had (4) MTX Terminator 12" woofers, each pair in a compound sealed arrangement - woofers mounted cone to magnet with only one of each pair visible. I had a top of the line Kenwood cassette deck . . . yep, cassette. It had Dolby B, C, and dbx. Man, those were the days . . . To this day, I'm not sure I've ever had another system that played lower. From there, I went on to work for a shop called Weststide Electronics. Their primary business was installing C-band satellite systems (again, WHO remembers that?). After I started, the owner and I decided to call the car audio side of it Audio Vibrations. Our tagline was "Giving You the Sound You Can Feel Behind The Wheel." We were a Kicker, Autotek, and Earthquake dealer and I gutted my Mustang and built my craziest system to date. It had over 2,000 watts, 27 speakers including a pair of 18" woofers, and I retained the back seat. I used Autotek amps, Kicker "Separates", a harmon / kardon crossover network, the Pegasus EQ, and an Alpine CD Player. It also had a Phoenix Gold 190 amp large case alternator, a matching battery isolator, 1/0 AWG and 2 AWG cable, and three Champion 875 batteries. I also used a bevy of large electrolytic capacitors -(4) GE 140,000 microfarad to supplement the charging system. In that area, nobody had seen anything like it - keep in mind that this was about 1991. This system was over the top, even by today's standards. People came from all over to see and hear it and it kind of put me on the map as an installer. I still have a bunch of pics of that system. Keep in mind, there were NO Bass CDs and rap music was in its infancy. Top demo material in the Mustang was Bachbusters, Thomas Dolby's Aliens Ate My Buick, and M.C.A.D.E. How Much Can You Take? Who has any of THOSE CDs? And those were the early days . . . My how time passes . . . Quote Tony Candela - SMD Sales & Marketing Email me at [email protected] to learn about becoming an SMD Partner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpnFosgates Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 thats sicc dude Quote Lucky Durango Sony hu 4 croosfire 6.5mids crossfire 600.1 mono amp American bass 1280.4 mids and highs amp aq hdc3 12 2.4 cube net box, tuned to 34 and 14.4 inches of port per cube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bigblu Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 I will be putting that discount to work and welcome! Quote 1993 Full Size Blazer Pioneer 7200HD AQ 90x4 AQ 3500.1 Big Three 0/1 DC Power 270xp 2 DC Audio 15" XL M2 85 SQ feet of Audio Technix deadner Sound Stream BX-20z epicenter Front 4x6 Polk DB Doors 2 sets Polk MM 6501 Rear Polk MM 5401 All Stinger HPM wiring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBleedMusick Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Really cool and congrats. I checked out the site and will make sure I send some of my business your way SMD partners are my go to for purchases Quote 2013 Dodge Charger Build Log 1996 Ford Explorer XLT 5.0Build Log 2005 Honda Civic LX Coupe Build Log SMD SUPER SELLER!!!!My Selling Feedback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmet Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) Love hearing stories like that from back in the day Hell before I was born, its cool to see how it was as todays standards is all kids my age know Good luck with the business dude and if you could manage to find a pic or 2 of that system you built it`d be awesome Edited January 6, 2012 by Emmet Quote i shook this one kids hand and it just folded in mine. long story short i fucked his girlfriendso.. yeah.. You want this to happen to you? Give decent handshakes people. I was gifted with an innate ability to distribute wholesale ass beatings in a timely and orderly fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snafu Posted January 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 I have photo albums full of them . . . I need to pull a few of the good ones and convert them to digital. Thanks guys - anything I can do to help! Quote Tony Candela - SMD Sales & Marketing Email me at [email protected] to learn about becoming an SMD Partner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Fizzy Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Tony, may I ask why your welding cable is $7 a foot with less than 5,000 strands? Not bashing, serious question. Thanks! Quote under construction I hate People with crappy primered cars rolling on hubcaps that are louder then me. u hate c-fizzy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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