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 Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:53 pm
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Anyone in to car audio? This thing is scary. I saw them use a cherry picker just to get this thing in to someone's car on this show called Pimp my ride. It needed a special steel brace just to support it. Unreal specs, can't imagine what you need in the area of battery power and alternators to power it?
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MTX's JackHammer subwoofer: Billed as the subwoofer that "other woofers have nightmares about," the MTX JackHammer is a 2-foot tall, 320-pound behemoth that makes you proud to be an American. This 22" subwoofer handles 5,000 watts RMS (up to 10,000 watts peak), and features a 900-ounce (that's a little over 56 pounds, folks) magnet and a 6.5" voice coil. The JackHammer is set up for high SPL (Sound Pressure Level), but you can purchase an replacement cone assembly that allows you to switch quickly to Sound Quality performance (and you don't have to remove the speaker from its enclosure to make the switch). There was a constant crowd around this woofer throughout the show, jaws open, staring in awe as the woofer cone moved in and out. Sometimes excess is a good thing!
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:14 am
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:20 am
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Not be be a prick, but consumer supported over-indulgences like this really brings the term 'useless eaters' to mind..I mean when does enough become enough, really? Is this something that a person really needs? How is 'need' even applicable?
I dunno, I'm feeling really cynical today, but it just strikes me as cultural junk..Even as I live within it, I see our consumer driven society as more than a little insane.
"The MTX JackHammer is a 2-foot tall, 320-pound behemoth that makes you proud to be an American."
Who's this person kidding? It's a metal-bound, energy-sucking lamprey..
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KNOW-THIS
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:45 am
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Not be be a prick, but consumer supported over-indulgences like this really brings the term 'useless eaters' to mind..I mean when does enough become enough, really?
I pretty much agree with you for the most part. It's the same way I feel about the giant gas guzzling Expeditions and Humvees that people drive around like tanks. It's just a status symbol usually used to compensate for low self esteem & small penis size. Hope no one here drives one? Anyway, the speaker I believe is just a novelty item and an opportunity for MTX to show its customers what it's truly capable of. I really don't think that they're going to sell too many of these and they know that (it requires a whole lot just to power it). Yes it's a pompous "I've got the biggest dick" type speaker exhibition but if you got it, flaunt it I say. A small part of me is impressed with this contraption of audio onslaught. I guess it's rooted in the part of me that enjoys pushing the envelope? |
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:21 am
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Originally posted by KNOW-THIS
I guess it's rooted in the part of me that enjoys pushing the envelope?
Nah..it's rooted in the 'Consumer-Pig' part of you that we've all been indoctrinated into being since birth.
Bigger, better, faster, stronger..the American Dream.
People love reminiscing about Rome, but you never hear anyone glamorizing Rome's sewer systems..
Ok, that's oblique, but what I mean is that I think people have a misunderstanding about what a 'product' costs in real terms. Someone says, "Well, I paid for it!", and that's that, but what did this thing REALLY cost? When we think in terms of value, we think in terms of the work involved for us to generate the currency required to make a purchase, imo, a surreal and detatched way of estimating something's value. You pay $5 for some crappy object at walmart, but did it cost $5 to get it all the way from China to your local walmart? Somewhere along the lines a VAST miscalculation is being made..
So regarding our subwoofer(and I love bass, lemme tell you..)
How much energy was used to mine and refine the elements used, create and transport the various parts to where it was constructed and then transported again to it's eventual owner? And this thing costs how much?
Multiply this by a gazzilion for all the largely useless bits and pieces of junk we all own(myself included, or at least up to the point where I amputated my own consumer impulses) and Peak Oil suddenly becomes a grim potentiality. And don't forget to factor in our collective stupidity in not decentralizing our food sources and the rediculous energy costs for something as trivial as a bag of potato chips..How many city blocks does one have to walk to find raw food goods in abundance enough to support a local community?
Are Energy Wars fought for our sake? Do we think about these things when we have a hole burning in our pockets? I know I didn't for a long time..Hell, I used to drive a '95 Corvette that ate $200 in gas a WEEK..
Not anymore, buddy..
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