Smokin' Deals: Sub/Amp Package from Elemental Designs

If you're shopping around for some bumps in your truck, take a look at the smokin' deal being offered from Elemental Designs: A 13Av.2 D2 subwoofer and a NINe.1 amplifier out the door and to your home for $450. That's a savings of $140 off retail prices. Not too shabby! The 13Av.2 features a three-layer vacuum-molder polymer composite cone, dual flex spder, and can take up to 1500 watts RMS. The sleek NINe.1 is a perfect combo for the sub-frequency monster, and will deliver about 1200 watts into a one-ohm load. Not a bad deal!

Got bass? Check out this deal!

UltraSubs-- Are you Ready??

Posted by: Brian Murphy, SoundDomain Moderator

Hello friends & Ultra enthusiasts,

I am very proud to announce that ULTRA is now shipping our new FULL line for 2009 !!!
The "Early Bird gets the Worm", our 2009 products are being released early due to public demand for more ULTRA offerings.

We have completed our offerings with THREE lines of performance subwoofers, Reference standard 6.5 separates and of course our new ULTRA 4200AM four channel and 1600AM mono block amplifiers.

All the new 2009 products are also "Standard Equipment" on the Christian Audigier and Ed Hardy limited edition $475,000.00 custom Escalade and Navigator, the Escalade was recently on display at the recent World famous Barret-Jackson auto auction in Arizona last month.

Another notable ULTRA enthusiast, Mr. George Foreman, with his new personal limo is loaded with ULTRA products to keep all his travels interesting.

Cool Stuff You Can't Have: Harman Kardon Amplifiers

Harman Kardon is a name well known among home audio fanatics. Their home theater amps are very sleek and have a refined and elegant style. So when I stumbled on this post over at South African car audio blog Resonance Factor, my jaw just about dropped onto my desk! Harman is offering a full line of car audio amplifiers for European and other non-US countries, and Razeen snapped some pretty good shots of the amps and has full details over at the Factor. The initial launch will include one 2-channel and two 4-channel Class A/B amps, and one Class-D sub amp. The inclusion of a Class-D amp is pretty common for car audio, but a different approach for Harman as their home audio line is all Class A/B. Regardless, these amps are hot and I wish there was some way to convince Harman to bring them stateside. However, SoundDomain did get the scoop that there are some good things on the way from one of Harman's other companies, but we aren't allowed to disclose details just yet. You'll just have to stay tuned; we'll have an announcement in the next few months!

Source: Resonance Factor
Source: Harman Kardon

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JL Audio Rockin' at Hard Rock Park: More Details, Video, Pics!

So we did a little more digging into the JL Audio/Hard Rock Park partnership and we've got a few more pics and a video of one of the coasters in action! Here's what we found out about the Zeppelin ride from JL Audio:

"On the Zeppelin ride, each train has eight rows of four seats (32 riders). Each seat has its own component system (an M770TCS in its own sealed enclosure). Each train has four specially modified HD600/4 amplifiers for a total of sixteen 150 watt channels, so each channel powers two component speaker sets with 75 watts each. Total power is 2,400 watts. That's a "Whole Lotta Love", baby."

Pretty impressive! Follow the jump for a few more pics and a video of the Zeppelin in action!

Product Review: Exile Audio X600.4

By: Eric Drust

I would like to thank Ben Vollmer for purchasing this amp, and allowing others to test and play with it.

As with my other reviews, I will break this down into a few parts. The first of which is cosmetic build. This will entail fit and finish, and what I think of the overall look of the product. The next section will be dedicated to the electrical design, and will include my evaluation of the amplifier circuitry and parts. The last section is performance, where I will measure different aspects of the amp with the equipment I have at hand, and finally listen to it myself for a subjective opinion.

Cosmetics: