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Today the weather people lied and, instead of rain, we had partly cloudy with temps near 70 so I strung some power wires and test drove Miss Daisy with my new amp temporarily in the console and a speaker under each front seat. Took her out on the G W Parkway, popped some Bach Concertos in the Walkman and was 'King of the Road' again! Treble is a bit muted with the speakers under the seats but it sounds so much better than anything I've tried so far. Maybe a small pair of tweeters under the dash would help.

Earlier today, I saw a really neat micro Kenwood equalizer unit at the car audio store. That might help too, for $170! The audio salesman tried to sell me a $50, 8 guage Day-Glo-Red power wire and fuse kit. The wire looked as thick as battery cable! That's fine if I had a 1200 watt amp (or a pair of 1200 watt amps like the kids use to make their Honda Civics pulsate!) My 200 watt Pioneer seems to work fine with 12 guage wire and a 15 amp inline fuse. After an hours drive, none of the power or fuse connections are even getting warm. The Pioneer is wired, through a heavy duty fuseholder, directly to the battery positive terminal. There's a separate power switch circuit that turns on the Pioneer amp through an internal relay. I'm sure this system will need some fine tuning. I'll continue with future updates.

Happy Motoring, Mark

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