Yeah yeah yeah - you've tried to flog 'em to me before... I've bought a Diamond M6 12... Still tempted by UFB, but the HD62s are working pretty well with sub bass down to about 80Hz.

[Edited by chiark - 7/3/2003 5:46:02 PM]

Remember that 7" VGA wide touchscreen LCD tft display that I mentioned as a group buy?

Well, I finally wrote a review...

http://www.diymp3.com/article.asp?id=2
(excuse the formatting at the moment - it's all a bit transient!)

If there is interest in a groupbuy, let's look at getting it moving
Cheers,
Nick.

Looks very good

Nice review mate - very fair comments all - particularly about that HD connector!!!!

Mine's now in the dash of the Bora, using MediaEngine to play umpteen mp3's. It's blummin marvellous, although the touchscreen doesn't always start. Seems to be when the car's been left overnight, so I'm guessing it's battery-voltage related. But then, I am going to be putting a separate battery in for the PC and screen, so the problem should go away :D

By the way, how did you force the graphics card to use specific screen resolutions? That's a new one on me!

Thanks yet again for getting the other development unit for me ;)

Richard

So you're running it directly off the car power supply? Cool :D

The stuff to change resolution is either the Matrox display drivers, or alternatively Powerstrip.

The real bugger is that powerstrip doesn't support the via chipset, so you need an extra graphics card. The 450 works well :D

Ah, gotcha. In which case, I'll be settling for the standard 800*600 which still looks fablious :D

Power supply is a second 12V battery and 0.5F cap, through a thumping great charging diode. So, that battery/cap powers the stereo and PC. Running a 1GHz mini-ITX, via a Morex 12V PSU (currently sat on the passenger seat!:)) and it works a treat. Doesn't like to be powered up before the engine's running, but otherwise it's very reliable.

Going to be building a false floor for the passenger's footwell. That way, I can put the two Focal 5WS subs in the kickwell, the PC by the seat, and only take up about 2" of floor!!!!!

PS Small Focal subs in the front of the car RULE :D
PPS Am using Cerwin Vega 6.5" drivers in the doors, 1" tweeters on the dash, the two 5" subs in the kickwell and no other speakers. You wouldn't believe the sound - it's like a set of studio monitors

Git. I told you you should have sold one of those subs ;)

Got three spare 10" PPI flat-piston subs spare..... :D

Looks very very interesting, and great review Nick.
I for one am still very interested in the group buy, any ideas of the kind of discount that can be expected?

Nice 1
Henry

Well, the unit price would be around $400, down from the $450 that he normally charges. Shipping shouldn't be much over $25 / unit.

nice site nick

Cheers David. It's all data driven, so it's easy to change content etc. Must get more on it :D

i noticed :D

I see these are currently $429 one off. If one takes the plunge and purchases a unit I assume Her Governments Custom & Excise people will want their share, do we know how much that will be?

Cheers Pete

Erm, potentially nothing. That's what I paid.

Can't you get them sent as a demo unit?, then you wouldn't have to pay the charges??

You can try.

The problem is that AIUI it's a federal offense to misrepresent customs charges, or something like that... But mine came through with no customs labels at all.