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while I think the Termpro forums are full of a bunch of assmonkeys, this article explains Richard Clark and his car:
[url]http://www.termpro.com/showcars/terminator/ca1096.html[/url]

sure dragon fire. I can do that in a new thread.

Richard Clark is a former IASCA Pro circuit competitor who managed to win quite a few titles using an Orange County Speakerworks sponsored Buick Grand National he set up for competition in an at the time very unorthodox manner. He was one of the first to use large electrolytic capacitors to smooth AC ripple from the alternator in his power supply/charging system. He sound deadened the hell out of the Buick to the tune of about an added 600lbs of weight in order to shape the internal acoustics of the cabin. He hand built the amplifiers and speakers used in the car which consisted of two 15" subs, two 12" midbass drivers, and two front dash mounted, hand crafted HLCDs, which was a first as well, before USD and ID came out with their models based on his designs. The car was fantastic for sound quality, and sufficiently loud at the same time. Terrific SQL setup. Richard now writes articles and such for an internet site, though the URL escapes memory at the moment. I'm not sure what else he's doing professionally at present. I haven't really spoken to him in years, but I was on the same circuit as he was, in a different power class in the early 1990s.
His Grand national is pretty famous and was featured in just about every auto sound periodical of the era.

Any google search for "richard clark grand national" should pop up a bunch of results.

i think its time for this post to get edited.

Advice:

Dont pull the moderators/Admins strings.

word :words

Actually it was directed to you as I was unsure how you would take my post.

But you showed integrity, which is good.

Now if we can stop nit picking and call it a day :D

[quote="Basstronics"]I will note however it always appears that you pick on poor Kiki. Then poor Kiki has to write up the gigantic posts explaining stuff away. Then you nit pick a little nitch of the topic that may have been vauge or something along them lines. This tends to aggrevate people, Admins too.

Cant we all just get along? If not I guess I will just have to start closing threads...

BTW we wont stand for personal attacks...

:cheers: [/quote]

I don't pick on em, he's just the only one who creates posts that are even pickable apartable ;)

If you post something I dont agree with, I'll gladly call ya on it... if it makes you feel better? :cheers:

Yep, no more personal attacks... which btw, I hope wasn't directed towards me? :help:

[quote="audiofreak12"]OK this is off subject, but who is richard clark, ive herd some talk of him and his challenges, just wondered who he was.[/quote]
^^^^ Ditto^^^^

[quote]I use a pre-amp with a line driver so that I can set the head unit to a volume pre-distortion, and use the pre-amp as a master volume so even at full, the preamp is still only at a portion of full volume for the head unit's pre-out voltage.[/quote]

Kiki, can you go more indepth on this in another thread or in the FAQ please.

OK this is off subject, but who is richard clark, ive herd some talk of him and his challenges, just wondered who he was.

[quote="spkrman"]Or will I be banned again for disagreeing?[/quote]

Honestly I cant remember which one of us put you on the temporary ban.

If I recall correctly you pushed a subject to far...

Your fully welcome to your opinion by all means. When it starts causing more problems then good around here thats where Chris, Justin or Myself step in and close things down.

Its sort of like free speech. You have the right of free speech untill it starts to cause problems...At which point something has to be done.

I will note however it always appears that you pick on poor Kiki. Then poor Kiki has to write up the gigantic posts explaining stuff away. Then you nit pick a little nitch of the topic that may have been vauge or something along them lines. This tends to aggrevate people, Admins too.

Cant we all just get along? If not I guess I will just have to start closing threads...

BTW we wont stand for personal attacks...

:cheers:

[quote="KikiTheCat"]a: I didn't ban you the first time, as I've stated before. I couldn't ban you if I wanted to. I'm a moderator, not an admin. hint hint.

b: that entire post is a copy/paste from a thread by Richard Clark. Not a single word of it came from my fingers or lips. I said I could paste the article, and I did. word for word. don't bitch at me about it. Go bitch at Rick. It's his challenge from 5 years ago. His current one I believe, is debunking capacitors.
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"I'll stop there... that's only 400 characters under the limit for a post

I've only included stuff that is relevant and not bickering. If you're just going to post yet another silly flame then don't bother, if however you want to ask/discuss then go ahead, whatever your opinion."

was that from the "original" post?

Who's bitching at you???? Calm down... its ridiculous... every post I make is only to piss you off, 100%... no really.. it is... I *only* care about making you mad!

Get ure head out ure butt man... i'm tryin to have a civilized discussion and every other post of yours attacks me... huh??

[quote]
The specific post I replied to had subjective arguments in it, which I pointed out in contrast to the objective verifiable data I'd offered on matters like the transistor part numbers used in the Art series amplifiers. that's all. It doesn't mean everything you or anybody else says is purely subjective all of the time.
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It was inferred that this amp had better sound quality than most other amps... my point in this thread was to say that amp sound quality isn't always directly tied to build quality with most of today's designs...

Durabilty, sound during clipping, all that... I never said all amps acted the same there, just within thier limits.

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if you want flaming, stop getting into positions to see your own prostates, people, and lighten up. [/quote]

If having an opinion is flaming... I'm one hell of a flamer :cheers:

[quote]
I'm not condoning pure silver cables, nor am I saying that everybody is wrong but me, and I'm not saying the PPI amps are the best amps ever made. The initial post was simply to point out a really nice amplifier that was hand crafted 12 years ago. It's like seeing a classic car. It's not always the best car in the world, but most people can appreciate it despite the age, or perhaps even for the engineering that went into it considering it's age.[/quote]

Alright, nobody ever said anything to the contrary

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that's it. for what it's worth, I may end up buying that a1200.2 myself anyway. If I do, I'll post some internal shots of it for anybody who's curious.[/quote]

I'd like to see some internal shots... :thumbsup