chiark

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]

chiark

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.

fin

Looks very good

globbits

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

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

chiark

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

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

globbits

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

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
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

chiark

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

globbits

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

henry winx

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

chiark

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

David_Wallis

nice site nick

chiark

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

David_Wallis

i noticed

kernel

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

chiark

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

Avi

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

chiark

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.