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H2 Hummer
One of our goals with this hummer was to not do any modifications to the truck itself. Everything that was installed is removable and the hummer can be put back to stock. We also wanted to incorporate all the techniques that we teach at our school in the design and install of this vehicle. The hummer was equipped with 6 – 10” Memphis M-class subwoofers, 3 sets of the synchronous 6.5” Memphis components, a set of 8” synchronous Memphis components, three MCD500 class-D amplifiers for the subs, one MCA3004 class-AB for components, one MCA150 class-AB for the 8” components, a 16-EQP4 four band E/Q and two 16-EQ30 1/3rd octave E/Q’s. For the video side, the hummer got eight VHR-78 7” headrests monitors placed in the doors and headrests, a VIR-7100N 6.5” in-dash navigation unit and two 15” overhead monitors. Memphis Car Audio sponsored all of the car audio equipment and Soundstream sponsored all of the video equipment. The dash along with door trim pieces were painted to match the vehicle, we added a fiberglass speaker pod to each of the doors and painted them to match the color of the vehicle as well. In the back there are six 10” subs that motorize into the Hummer 2 feet and the five amplifiers motorize out 2 feet and the enclosures holding the 8” components motorize up and out at you. This was all achieved by using ONE linear actuator that can lift 1,500 pounds with only 12 volts and 10 amps. To trim it all out we used 6061 T6 aluminum that was all machined and polished at our school, again techniques that we teach. There was over 800 pounds of raw aluminum that was purchased for this build. Other then the shinny aluminum we painted all the rest of the pieces to keep everything flowing together. Compustar donated a ¾ mile remote start alarm for it as well.
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2006 Pontiac GTO
This GTO belongs to the Head Instructor/Director of the Houston location and it is his daily driver. The car was featured in the December issue of Car Audio & Electronics and in the January issue it received the honor of being one of the best shop cars for 2007. It was also shot for Performance & Autosound and should be in the May or June of 2008 issue. The GTO was gutted from the dash to the trunk to start its transfermation from stock to custom. The owner himself was the lead builder (also a past student of Acoustic Edge) along with the aid of the other instructors at the Houston location. The build took 5 months and who knows how many hours. The only thing in the GTO's interior that didn't get modified was the dash it self although it did get a 7" Soundstream in-dash screen and a Soundstream E/Q. The seats were upholstered at the institute in Houston with some embroidery done at a local shop. From front to back to describe the GTO their were custom kick pannels made to house a set of Soundstream Reference components, the doors were made from a plaster mold of the factroy door to keep all factory lines and shapes. The doors house two sets of Soundstream Reference components and a 7" Soundstream monitor. In the rear sits 4 ten inch Soundstream T4's in ported enclosures, the rear deck started with the factory one but with a little twist now and between the two rear seats the center console received a Soundstream E/Q and power distrobution block. The trunk got a lot of attention. The trunk lid now holds a 17" Soundstream monitor and a set of Soundstream Reference components and is motorized with two heavy duty acuators. In the trunk their are four amplifiers equaling 3760 Watts @ 4ohms. All of the amps are mounted on a custom rack that gives the illusion that they are floating and that they have no wires connected to them (they are all working amps though). Under the amps sits 10 passive crossovers that run the 5 sets of Soundstream Reference Series components. To each side of the amplifiers sits a Soundstream 40 farad capacitor to help store energy for all the amps. The car was sponsored by Soundstream Technologies and MRR Design along with Acoustic Edge Institute.
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Purgatory
All you can say is WOW! There has never been one like this before and quit possibly never will be again. This truck was featured in about 10 different magazines all at once about 4 years ago, so it is very possible you have seen it before. There is a link at Edge media for this truck with more in-depth pictures and articles. We did a full Memphis Audio system on this install starting with 2-1000d’s running a LVS 15” sub. That’s a lot of power running a lot of sub in a very cool ported enclosure which produced a lot of bass. It hit 156 db while playing music, in case you don’t know that’s very impressive! We inverted the Memphis class AB amp in the center console along with a custom molded skull head to bring the outside theme into the audio install. This truck was bagged, body dropped and everything else you can imagine, check out the link to read more detailed info. Did I mention that we built this truck in only 7 days?
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KVH Denali
KVH is the company that makes it possible for you to get ESPN or HBO in your car. How cool is that?
We built 2 of their Denalis for them to cruise around the country in and show everyone how sweet their product is. We did an all Kenwood audio system starting with 2-10”subs and we did a 600 watt sub amp and a 4 channel amp on the Kenwood separates in the doors and in the back next to the 42” plasma TV. We also installed 4 – 7” head rest monitors and a flip down screen. Did I mention the 6.5” Kenwood head unit with navigation in the dash? We also took a live satellite and removed the top and built our own top out of ½” Plexiglas so you could see how the satellite actually worked and tracked. This vehicle was built in only 5 days.
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Kicker Ranger
This car was not built by the Acoustic Edge but it was partially built by the CEO of the Acoustic Edge Dave (Danger Boy) Johnson while he was working as a tech for Kicker. This was a very cool vehicle which was ripped up and rebuilt twice. The first one was built for the CE show in Vegas around 1999. We put 5 of the comp 18” subs in the cab, yep I said in the cab and we put a ZR 1000 on each sub. The whole cab was fiber-glassed. The roof, floor and the enclosure were all a one piece fiberglass tubb. It sounded very good especially if you like your toons a little bass heavy. The enclosure was built to look like an aliens head, it was very cool and ahead of it’s time as far as design and technique are concerned.
The second rendition was built when the new square subs were first developed; in fact the first subs in the install were proto type speakers. This install wasn’t as sexy and curvy but we built a huge very solid enclosure with 6- square 15” subs. Holy @%*# it was sooooooo loud it hurt, BAD! It still looked really cool but man it hammered. I think it hit 168db or something really loud, the cool thing is it was built for sound not spl, nice. As far as I know this truck is still rollin around up north somewhere giving people headaches?
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Kicker Mazda
This car was owned by a local Oklahoma rep and we had the privilege to build this Kicker demo car.
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Kicker Cougar
The first thing we have to say is The Acoustic Edge did not do this car but the CEO of Acoustic Edge Dave (Danger Boy) Johnson did help build it while enjoying his term at Kicker. This was our first demo vehicle with the all new L7 square sub. We got creative and decided the normal thing has always been to put a round sub in a square box, so we decided to put a square sub in a round box. It makes sense, so we built 2 perfectly round enclosures out of fiberglass and sunk them into two half spheres so they just floated, it was cool! The kick panels also were pretty radical and took a while to build. We took 4 days just to design them as far as setting the staging and imaging using lasers to be precise. There was a 6.5” mid bass in an a-periodic chamber and a 5” mid range in a sealed enclosure and of course a very good Kicker tweeter. This car sounded heavenly, it staged perfectly, tonally it was beautiful and it would get really loud if you wanted it to. The distribution was built in the bottom of the tub using 1” Plexiglas and 1” aluminum, definitely one of a kind!
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1969 Cadillac Hearse
I don’t know if there’s a word in the world to label this Caddy right. If the designer of this Hearse back in 69’ saw this now I’m pretty sure they’d want a Hearse of there own. This Hearse was built for a customer who used it as a toy to wow people and I’m pretty sure it does just that. If the crazy silver metallic paint with the flames and airbrushing on the outside isn’t enough open any of the doors and that will do the trick. The entire inside minus the dash was completely gutted and everything was built new, all sporting what we like to call “Shag” carpet. The factory seats were gone and 4 new buckets were put in for anyone daring enough to ride in this thing. Each door housed a Kicker 6.5” speaker with tweeter for plenty of highs, and for the most needed lows 2 12” Kicker Solo Baric L7 subwoofers were brought in to do the job, the subs were part of the rear center console that met up with front console that housed 2 7” monitors that either played the rear vision camera or the DVD player that was in back as well as the Kenwood CD Player. Kicker amplifiers were used to power the system, a KX800.4 was used on all the doors while a KX1200.1 powered the subs. The amplifiers were mounted one on each side of the bed sitting on top of plexi that was back lit with red neon to give off a nice glow to set the mood. For entertainment in the back an Audiovox 15” flip down monitor was mounted to the ceiling. To finish off the theme in the back a mirror was mounted above the entire bed. The rear window was taken out and replaced with mirror as well. It’s not everyday that you see a 69’ Cadillac Hearse trucking down the road much less a Hearse like this one.
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Gates Bronco
Does the term “Worlds loudest vehicle” mean anything to you? For the record this incredible vehicle was not built at the Acoustic Edge, it was built at Kicker where the CEO of Acoustic Edge Dave (Danger Boy) Johnson was fortunate enough to be apart of this historical event. The Bronco had 48 modified ZR 1000’s and 48 square SPL subs. The subs weighed 50- 60 pounds each, the truck weighed around 18,000 pounds and the Amps were putting out around 2000 watts to each sub woofer. The cab of the vehicle was completely air tight and was made with a metal that is used in the construction of airplane wings and helicopter floors. This truck was featured on Ripley’s believe it or not in 2000
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2004 Mazda 3
Ready for the twilight zone? This Mazda was being built for a rep car for Fusion, which had an alien, UFO theme for its company. Hey, why not build a UFO and jam in the back of the car. That was our plan and that’s just what we did. A single 12” woofer was going to be the bass for the car so we built the enclosure and then made our UFO to go over it that also housed three 7” LCD monitors. Now if the crazy neon green paint wasn’t enough for this thing to stand out we loaded up a ½” Plexiglas ring with Varad LED lights to really make this thing grab your eye. Now the UFO enclosure sat right in the middle of the 4 surrounding amplifiers that powered the entire system. We took the covers off the amplifiers and made plexi covers with the Fusion logo cut out of them in neon green plexi and lit them up as well. To finish off the hatch of this Mazda we added a pair of 6.5” speakers so at shows and demos it jammed back there as well, and last but definitely not least, a bottle for a little go juice (NOS). Up front we pulled the factory head unit replaced with a Fusion CD player and put a DVD player in the glove box for the monitors in the back.
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