Directed Sells Off Precision Power

By: Ben Vollmer, Car Audio Nationals / Team SoundDomain

Precision Power back in the day made some of the finest amps ever, and I used to drool over them on a regular basis. The Art Series was one of the coolest looking amps and featured the ability to tap into the hollow areas of the top and bottom of the amp to run a water cooled system through it (which usually picked up some additional creativity points for competitors). Here is the A600.2, which touted 150x2 and was a benchmark back in the mid 1990's when it was released.

 

They have been in the Directed family of brands since Directed bought a/d/s several years ago, but times change, and again, so has Precision Power's owner.

The brand is now at Epislon Electronics, Inc, which already owns some well known 12-volt brands such as:

• SoundStream
• Kole Audio
• SPL Audio
• Power Acoustik

Epsilon Electronics acquired all branding rights and existing inventory. Warranty service for qualified product sold through the Directed Electronics channel will continue to be processed by Directed.

I hope that the new owners will return "PPI" to it's original sound quality roots. Ah, the memories.

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!