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that was like few years ago. it start at one of the car park in East Coast Park if not wrong, then they moved north to Yishun area i guess. It a weekly meet up for all these with expensive car stereo, they will open up the car for public to see and blast the area loud. Can anyone remember this? are they still around? if they are. when they move to and when is their weekly meet up and what time? Cheers

The other day, my car's stereo/radio (or whatever it's called these days) decided to throw a tantrum, and "ate" my newly-bought CD when I wanted to try it out. Being an in-built unit, there didn't seem to be an easy way to remove the set to retrive the CD. It looked like a job best left to the professionals. So, I brought the car to the dealer, thinking that they probably knew best what to do. What I didn't expect, however, was to have to drive without a radio. Unfortunately, for some reason, the dealer had to remove the entire stereo/CD player from my car in order to have it looked at, and that has indeed left me without a stereo to tune in to, for the time being. I'm sure most people have the radio on while driving, or at least some music, playing your favourite CDs or even hooking up your new-fangled music players, as I sometimes do. Besides having some aural accompaniment, listening to the radio is also useful for traffic information. Like today, when there was a massive (and I do mean massive) jam on my route to work. I was completely in the dark about it, although thankfully I saw it in time and could still plan an alternative route quickly in my head. Apart from that, driving with no music is actually quite a surreal experience. You hear nothing apart from the engine and road noise. Or, if you drive a Lexus or a Prius, you get total silence. I'm not really a fan of complete silence. It creeps me out somehow. But I guess I'll have to live with that for a while. At least, until I get my stereo (and CD) back.

Hi, is anyone using bluetooth stereo headset like Jabra Halo, Motorola S10-HD, Nokia, etc? Which one do you recommend? Thanks.

http://www.onlinecarstereo.com/Help/HelpIn...onalOrders.aspx Seem to be able to ship internationally + pricing wise (at least for the speakers) still reasonable.

I need advice.. got a new lappy.. when i wanna plug the speakers i used for my old lappy, discovered the plug is too big.. it only entered half.. Checked the specs of the new lappy.. it stated stereo mini jack.. isit new lappy comes with so called stereo mini jack which is smaller? but do multimedia speakers come with smaller plug? Or there is a converter to plug into the smaller hole?

Hi all, Any idea where to get something similiar as below? Thanks http://lib1.store.vip.sc5.yahoo.com/usbdis...mp3charger.html http://www.chronos.com.tw/products/mp3/car...3/car%20mp3.htm Cheers

Heads up. I have a pal that was just duped into buying a $3000 speaker set for $400. Watch out for the white van that tries to sell speakers from their van. However if they sell Skoda accesories give me a ping.

Was thinking of hooking up one of my mp3 players to my car stereo so that i could play songs from the mp3 player. Instead of finding propriety adapters to fit into the car stereo (ipod, etc), is it possible just to connect the mp3 player with the car stereo set via the 3.5mm output? If the car stereo has an aux out, i could just plug that into the mp3 player 3.5mm plug and i'm good to go. i don't mind controlling music from the mp3 player itself, i just put it on shuffle and continuous play. I'm not an audiophile, but i would want at least decent quality music, i think a 3.5mm input would be a good compromise. What i'm wondering is what if my headunit doesn't seem to have an aux out/3.5mm connector? Am i forced to use an fm transmitter? Is it possible to go to a car audio shop and get the technicians to splice out an aux-out 3.5mm cable out for me? If it's possible, how much would it cost and could anyone recommend any shops? Thanks to anyone who could assist me in this simple i.c.e. question!

I just want to generate some discussion and feedback on stereo/mono sub setup. Understand that in most cases, people use only one sub (mono). But most HU has 2 channel sub-out, i.e. L/R. Has anyone tried stereo connection to two subs running both L/R channels? Why do we want to do that? What are the benefits? What do we lose if we just combine the L/R signals into mono?

To ALL ICE fans here including Barakian, Skodaman & Ghostrider, thought I bring up a new topic for further discussion. On of the things that I cannot understand until today is the stereo imaging in a car. I still do not understand how that is possible in an enclosed car with 1 speaker so close to you while the other is much further away. Stereo sound is composed of identical sounds (mono) and differences. The blend produces images when the listener completes what is known as the stereo triangle . See diagram. Pls find below a diagram of a normal set up in a Home Audiophile set up where the listener is sitted in front & between the Left & Right speakers. As experience which most of us will know , is that sitting a bit to left means that we will lose the stereo effect and instead hear the sounds more from the left speaker unless the right speaker reproduce something different from the left. This is the stereo triangle and the distance indicated by the blue line between the 2 speakers must not be longer than the distance between the listener to the speakers as indicated by the 2 black lines.

Hi all, Thanks in advance. Posted this in the ICE section, guess most of them like to enjoy using the system then DIY. I have a Octavia Classic, original Blaunpunkt set and believe the fuse is blowned. Understand that there is a fuse within the electrical line before the set. There are 2 fuses and the external one is ok, hence, it is suspected that the one inside is blowned. It looks like the 13Amp fuse we use, but it is covered with a glass. Cannot remember how it has been done, something like slotting wires into the 4 holes from the side of the set....been a while ago that i have muck around with cars stereo. kindly advice how to remove the main set to from the dashboard. Again, thanks. Ivan

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/07/...kill/index.html Troy Irving's 18-year-old Dodge Caravan has a heck of a sound system: 72 amplifiers -- you got it, 72 -- and 36 big 16-volt batteries to put out the 130,000 watts of power needed to rumble his nine 15-inch subwoofers.