Easter Eggs in Audio Gear

Easter Eggs have been around for years. No, not the colored eggs you created as a kid... This kind of Eater Egg is a hidden feature or novelty that developers place into software, on circuit boards, in DVD's, etc that are hidden until somebody stumbles on them by accident. I can remember my friend Mike and I playing a flight simulator game in Excel and watching a volcano in Windows 9x. There is even a whole website devoted to Easter Eggs in DVD’s, CD’s and Software. And in the computer world, it's a pretty common thing to find art inserted on actual computer chips.

One of the most recent Eggs that made me laugh was in the Latest Apple Keyboard Update. Something tells me Mr. Jobs would LOVE to find this engineer and put him out of a job. :-)

A few years back, there was a thread on the old Phoenix Gold forum that highlighted some “easter eggs” on car audio circuit boards. While digging through an old Hard Drive the other day, I found a few images that feature some really great circuit board eater eggs. Rumor has it some of them are engineering samples, early production runs, etc... But some of them where in actual production pieces.

Do you have any easter eggs for Car Audio? Post them up in the forums!

Follow the jump to check out a few other cool and funny Easter Eggs from PPI and Phoenix Gold.

in the forums!

This is a PPI DCX.

This is an unknown to me Rockford-Fosgate Board

This is a Phoenix Gold Ti 800.1 Amplifier.