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dB Drag Racing
Exedore writes "For a paltry $80,000 outlay, you too can fight back against the punk kids blasting gangsta rap from their Honda Civics. Enter the strange (and rather loud) world of dB Drag Racing and join a small group of dedicated competitors in their quest for the loudest car sound system possible. The numbers: 130,000 watts output, 177dB, 10,000 lbs. of equipment (including the vehicle and all the sound insulation needed to protect those nearby). It might not be quite up to Disaster Area standards, but it's not far off."
...it's a single frequency sound, not music. That said, it still sounds better than that crap coming from the car next to you at the stoplight...
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
How close are we to getting a cheap, easily deployable, noice cancellation system? Living in a city is great because my job is only a mile away and i can walk, but the "ghetto" blasting is getting extremely old. I mean, even through triple paned windows and extra sound insulation in the walls i can still here 50 cent in the middle of the night...*sigh*
God, I sound like a tard. One more time:
Does anyone build/sell small EMP weapons? You know, strong enough to reboot anything electronic, like a CD or a radio, within like 20 feet?
Bowie J. Poag
I read this article earlier today, and it just struck me as pointless. I guess there are other competitions which are even more contrived, and maybe I just don't "get it." I suppose anything that keeps the youngins off the street and out of trouble is good.
But honestly, how can it be a car stereo system when the car can't even move by itself! And given that you can't even listen to these things without: a) killing yourself, b) going deaf, c) being real far away, d) turning the volume way down or e) insulating it to lessen the sound; it just doesn't jibe.
I guess it's the thrill of competition, but there have gotta be more intersting engineering challenges than this.
How lame can you get.
Surely, if they're after max volume, then they don't care about distortion. I'd be tempted just to use solid state relays to drive the speakers with a square wave. That saves lots on cost/complexity/power-disspiation, leaving more for the speakers. (You could also modify the square wave using n batteries in parallel, switched in for slightly different fractions of the waveform - this would get more power into the fundamental frequency.)
I can not tell you the number of times I fantasized about that while living in dorms, and not sleeping at 1am because someone needs to hear their rap at 90 dB.
To anyone who puts other people through that... try thinking about the fact that you're being a real jackass. I once had a roommate who could sleep right through that without being disturbed, but there are quite a few of us on the opposite end of the spectrum, too, who can't help but be annoyed at least, and made physically ill (headaches, nausea a couple times) by your crap. I truly wish this was just whining and I could choose not to be affected that way, because believe me, I would in a heartbeat, but it's not a choice.
(Of course, in my experience, the kind of person who may be reading this site may be proud of their speaker set but aren't the ones blasting it five or six hours a day, week in, week out, any time of day or night. But still, think about your actions and please consider others.)
Oh, and a hint to anyone about to move to college, especially a larger one: Every dorm administrator thinks their facilities are quiet, and will say so if you ask. This is because they live in air-conditioned offices as far away from the students as possible (possibly in another building), come in at 9am (when the students are all sleeping), and go home at 5pm (about two hours before the party really starts). They also have absolutely no interest in actually working to make the facilities quieter, even if they explicitly advertise it as a feature. If you are as bothered by this as I am (perhaps 1 or 2%), seriously consider moving *way* off campus. I now work at the University I went to, and a 20 minute drive was far enough away. (Note Michigan State University is huge; you can probably live closer to smaller ones.)
What racism? Sounds to me like rascist would be inferring the race from the type of music.
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Wait a second... Is this the same slashdot that got so pissed off when the sentator from Utah thought it would be a good idea to destroy file traders computers?
"punk" kids to not listen to "gangsta" rap. punk and gangsta are two different genres.
I want one.
Although I don't mind loud music in its place, its place isn't in the car next to me, especially if it's shitty music (ie, rap, "R&B", heavy metal, etc). Blues is OK, as is Oz pub rock.
What a long, strange trip it's been.