John, You know more than you let on! Good for you attempting to replace the caps, i just don't have the soldering skills necessary to do it. I have always wondered what it would cost in money and space to transition an amp like this to solid state caps or if that was even possible (like maybe the so...

Okay, so I have waited the requisite time as I have to start to move this item. I am going to offer my nickel MS1000 to the boards here first. Catch you guys over on the classifieds.

Sort of a bump, I'm still trying to reach David, but no luck. His loss might be someone else's gain. I'm selling a piece to help pay patent fees. I will be disappointed to see the piece go, but maybe one day I will own another.

Does anyone know his email address, I need to get in touch with him asap?

Thanks

The main reason that most people don't do this is because of ground loop noise. A lot of the time grounding in multiple places creates a ground loop that causes significant audio noise. Just think the head unit is ground to the same vehicle. An ideal situation would be grounding all points in the ex...

Yes there is the highlander is a different beast than the prius. It is a smallish SUV, There is room for an HO alternator and there is an existing one as well. My thoughts were I just needed to use my old isolator that is circa 1990 to separate the two power systems, but I have read some things onli...

So all this time and views and NO ONE has ever installed an aftermarket system in a hybrid???

I am the new owner of a slightly used 2010 highlander hybrid. I "had" to get an suv for a daily driver as I now have 5 month old twins and needed a second vehicle that can tote them, my wife and I around. Some of you might know my previous install of two 13w7 sub in an s-10. For those of y...

Okay so for the past couple of months my car audio has been acting like there is a break in an rca. Every time I go over a bump no matter how little I get the dreaded loud as all get out white noise or loud pops. This has happened in the past and it turned out to be a loose screw in the TiDEQ. So I ...

What is the rj jack next to the lpl? HMU? HMLI?

jbondox, That is not necessarily true. Stay with me here. There are certain times that it is best to be completely quite until it comes time to produce a working product and then blitzkrieg it. This keeps people/press/etc calling it vaporware, the product being written off prematurely, or even not l...

Perhaps something tied to the old but left to the imagination of the new purchasing it? I always saw MS as "Monster Series" MC for "Monster Champions". It could also stand for "Master of Ceremonies" like MCs etc. Different than before, but tied to the past. A problem he...

What comes to my mind that made PG great back in the day 1) was the simplicity of the designs and 2) they did what it stated it would do (M series lines - M/MP/MQ/MS/MAC/MPS). Even though PG made monstrous amps they were know for the sound quality could be considered a 3). There is something to be s...

I am one of other owners of a nickel MS1000, the one with the blue plexi in the earlier pictures. It came from Tristan via R-acer. Is there another person on the board that has one? Thought Matt and I were the only ones currently here. Due to the economy and things (like getting married again) the b...

Some of you might be familiar with my system for others here it is: Nak cd500 feeds TiDEQ feeds PLD1 feeds M44 feeds exile 2400.1 Okay recently I've noticed that the bass in my truck is lower than it should be when it is around volume 20 to 30 on the Nak. If I turn it up to say 40 or so the bass kic...

I don't post often, b/c well I don't often have experience with the hardware being talked about, but this time I do. I have a Nak CD500 and it is connected to a DD10 as well. I have not had any issues with the Nak in general or in connection with the DD10. I have four fans, exile 2400.1, M44, TiDEQ,...

Might not be so great with Ike coming, but I am in Dallas.

Stereo Junkie

So here is my experiences. I currently run my Nakamichi head unit with an 8G nano (new black square one) and I have music encoded all the way from 96kbit/s (think old reel to reel -> cd -> mp3 ugh!) to ACC lossless. While I (and everyone else for that matter) can hear the difference between a cd and...

Physics state that the electrons will move on the outside of the wire. So a thought of mine in previous years has been that the more strands the greater the surface area, but you must remember that all the strands are so tight that there really is no enough of a surface area increase to reduce the r...

what PassatBloke is saying is that you use a DMM to test different wires to find a wire that is "hot" when the key is in the ignition but not "hot" when the key is not in the car ignition. Make sense?

Stereo Junkie

You are looking for the "remote" wire that shows current when the car is on, possibly? In a 98 camry don't have a clue as to what color that wire would be. You could trace it back to the HU and look for a label there.

Stereo Junkie

Great question!

I have no idea how I would do that... perhaps there is another thread on that or a quick description?

Thanks,
Stereo Junkie

Okay here is a cad drawing of the changes to the black box in the back to be able to accommodate the new equipment.

I have also acquired the fans now.

http://picasaweb.google.com/doug.fossle ... 0619719250

Any feed back???

Thanks,
Stereo Junkie

Bfowler,

Looks good so far and don't hold out on the finished pics!

Stereo Junkie

Okay...I have started to gear up for the finalization of my stereo in the S-10. Thanks to several people go out for the additional equipment I now find myself in posession of. MS1000 Nickel plated (R-acer) 2xMS2125 (one original box - Tristan - and ZPX2 which might not get used) Ax406a (BenVollmer) ...