OOH I'm an Arc Audio dealer, if anyone wants to take his suggestion we'll go to the Toyota dealer today.

 

Aww come on, he wasn't worried about the budget....i was planning to spend more than 5K on the amps alone
But the 9140 would be a good option, it's got enough processing for most systems on the road. I guess the Arc DXE might have been a little overkill

 

my northern division is an arc dealer also, solid equiptment, but they are proud of it.
I am a big fan of processors, they are not used enough anymore, the thought the head unit can do it along with everyone going cheap. I can not beleive that there is not a easy to use processor that you plug your laptop into and tune, i know there is a few but they are a PIA to use. STEG (focals amp division) which i am also a dealer for, was suppose to have modules that plug in the amps you hook up usb and adjust, you could daisy change them and set crossover points parametric eq and so on, there last model of amps have the port built in them but the modules i have not seen yet.

 

JL reps have told us that their HD amps are the platform for data communication. There is some discussion privately about how BIG this will be. Both for JL and/or their dealers to see what the amp has been through (when that kid leaves the shop and goes for a screwdriver to crank the gains up), tempuratures, moisture, etc. Also-would make it easily possible to "lock" the amps-similar to what Directed dealers can do with the Bitwriter on the DEI (Viper, etc) alarms.

It would hopefully be tunable, adjustable, etc through use of a USB connection to a laptop. We'll see. This is VERY close on the horizon...

 

this is one of the funniest threads I have read in here in quite a while.
i like kyleisme's solution except make it a Crossfire, Image Dynamic or DB Drive dealer

hey thats me

 

That would be great for any of the higher quality brand amps especially the ability to lock the amp then only authorized dealers could adjust them which would save lots of amps from melt downs.

Or the ability to check and see if there had been voltage drops or gain adjustments, temperature increases or the presence of moisture via some kind of memory programming.

Sounds like a great idea and it would pay for itself relativly quickly because of the amps that would no longer need to be warrantied because of the ability to prevent abuse.

 

O/T but one my boys was at your shop talking to one of your guys, and they seemed to brag about a full amp install in 18 minutes. Whats up with this?

 

What does your question have to do with what I posted, I am actually confused.

as far as if someone could do a full amp install in 18 minutes, probably do able by a handful or more of good fast installers under the right circumstances but definatly not a regular occurence

Just my personal opinion though

Now I will say this, that we on a fairly regular basis have people come in at the end of the day and want something done right then, so we will put multiple people on it and knock it out quick like

That actually happens quite often around here

 

If its been done before i would brag about it too. Alot of people like to walk in at the last minute with money in hand. i know they do it here in Tally.

 

Better > Faster

Just sayin....