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On Monday, we took a look at a pretty cool office. On Wednesday, how to make a fake car sound real. Earlier today, a Jalopnik-liveried Shelby. Now, we look at the guts of Forza's digital world. Welcome to the machine. More »
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On Monday, we took you inside Turn 10 Studios, the outfit that created Forza Motorsport and teamed with us on the Forzalopnik download pack. Now it's time for a deeper dive. This is how they make the XBox game loud. More »
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The sub-$20 theft-proof stereo installation works pretty well, but let's say your local crackheads aren't desperate enough to bust your windows to steal a factory AM/FM radio, yet they will steal anything nicer? How will you listen to your MP3s? More »
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More than two years have passed since I built the car-battery-powered Turbo II, Junkard Boogaloo boombox, and finally some other masochist innovator has decided to experience the headaches joy of a homemade boombox afflicted blessed with genuine Jaguar components: Catbox! More »
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When a subwoofer — like this Cadence 34-incher — gets so large it needs an enclosure the size of two refrigerators and you need to hold it up with an engine hoist, it's probably too big for your car. More »
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Looking to upgrade the hottie-pulling quotient of your Nissan Maxima Type R? Then Lou Cerrito's One Of A Kind Audio has got the pumping system just for you. Wicked sick. More »
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Let's say you park your car in an area frequented by urban entrepreneurs who gather intoxicant-obtainment resources by harvesting car audio equipment from vehicles… yet you still want some tunes in your ride. More »
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A recent NPD Group and CEA study showed that car stereo sales and other car audio equipment had a steep decline in the fourth quarter of 2007. Single CD players dropped 4 percent, amplifiers dropped 21 percent, subwoofers dropped 18 percent and speakers dropped 8 percent—all compared to the same quarter in 2006. Kenwood seems to think it was the gas prices and weather, but in all reality I think it is because aftermarket car audio is slowly becoming obsolete. Hit the jump for a poll. I certainly don't buy aftermarket audio equipment anymore and I'm curious about you. More »
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Despite the fact that more and more manufacturers are ditching the universally sized head units for their own, proprietary audio systems, JVC is still cranking out head units that fit into the audio system consoles of vehicles of year's past. The El Kameleon KD-AVX44 has to be one of the best looking CD/DVD receivers I've ever seen. On the left side you have touch controls and on the right side you have a 3.5-inch display. The fun doesn't end there, either. More »
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Big Daddy Nick Denton shut down his Fueler at half track just to let us know about Arc Audio's PSGrill, which includes a Playstation 2 and a car audio system. We really have absolutely no clue what the point of this device is, other than that Arc does subscribe to the school of "Because We Can" thinking. We suppose it's supposed combine a few of those stereotypical guy things that we just didn't get the gene for. We prefer to have our grill outside, our video games indoors and our kickass stereo, well, everywhere. That's why we roll like Radio Raheem. More »
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