I'm getting my Hertz hcp1dk swapped out (under warranty) by my local car audio installer, and they're allowing me to upgrade to something larger if I pay the difference. Aim is to install a much more powerful subwoofer in the future, something that can do 1ohm 1600W RMS. I believe HCP1DK can do 2ohm 1200W RMS.
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Diamond Elite DES series amplifiers have been our work horse ever since its introduction last year when it was engineered and designed from the ground up. Smaller than the previous generation and constructed with the same footprint dimensions for all models, these amplifiers have been engineered to sound even more dynamic and to deliver optimal rated power at all impedance levels! A ll Diamond Elite DES series amplifiers feature various switched speaker level turn on options (VOX/DC Offset/REM), utilize the latest digital chipset technology, and provides installation flexibility and all the controls necessary to fine-tune and improve the sound quality of any car audio system.
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Carlton Kramer, vice president of marketing for Pacific Historic Parks, grew up on Oahu, with Diamond Head as a constant backdrop. Recently, as he hiked up the crater while listening to the new Diamond Head audio tour, he was amazed at how ill-acquainted he was with the iconic volcano.
Clients pick up the audio tour player and map for $4 per person at the Diamond Head Visitor Center, near the crater entrance. Numbered trail markers correspond to each part of the narration, which includes compelling commentary by experts and music inspired by the setting.
Like Kramer, I was entertained and enlightened by the audio tour, despite having climbed Diamond Head dozens of times. For newbies and repeaters alike, it offers greater appreciation of a beloved attraction.
Diamond Cut Audio Restoration Tools (also known as DC-Art and Diamond Cut Audio Lab) is a set of digital audio editor tools from Diamond Cut Productions used for audio restoration, record restoration, sound restoration of gramophone records and other audio containing media.
In 1995, the Diamond Cut Audio Restoration Tools (DC-Art) program was first formally introduced into the commercial marketplace. Since then DC-Art (or DC for short) has been used throughout the world for not only musical audio restoration applications, but for others such as 911 call restoration, clarification of police surveillance recordings, cleanup of radio broadcasts for release on CD, restoration of historic spoken word recordings, cockpit voice recording restoration among others. The full version is highly useful and flexible for any number of audio related operations.[2]
Unlike other programs in the field of record and audio restoration, DC-Art has undergone regular and significant modifications on an almost annual basis. Many of the changes appear to stem from the frequent discussions and interest in the process of audio restoration[3][4] by addressing them using new and novel algorithms in order to both simplify and improve the outcomes of the audio restoration process. As such, many of the releases include alterations aimed at both novice and experienced/expert users or engineers in the field:
DC-Art was the first of the officially released audio restoration programs from Diamond Cut Productions in April 1995 and featured a 16-bit processing architecture for the various audio processing algorithms. Initially it was released as a beta version to potential customers and identified as QA 1.1. During the initial release it took several months of de-bugging to optimise the various algorithms. DC-Art V1.0 was made available to the public by July 1996 and later through Tracer Technologies, Inc.[5] in order to facilitate the marketing and distribution of the software. Version 2.0 of DC-Art was released later in December 1997 and included innovative real-time filter previews. If you have an original copy of QA 1.1, consider it a collectable antique!
DC-Art 32 was released in 1998 and also referred to as "DC-Art Version 3.0". In contrast to the earlier release, DC-Art 32 used a 32-bit processing architecture to improve the accuracy of the various audio processing algorithms. Unlike other audio-restoration software, DC-Art 32 also introduced a novel enhancement processes termed the Virtual Valve Amplifier (aka. VVA). This novel enhancement algorithm provided the opportunity to re-create or enhance various harmonic frequencies that are otherwise lost during the audio restoration process and to "color" sound to match that of the era from which the recording was made.
DC-Art Millennium/Live or "DC-Art Version 4.0" was publicly released in August 1999. Unlike previous versions, DC-Art Millennium brought with it a new level of performance and features in the audio restoration and enhancement software market.[6] Unlike other software of its type it included features like live feed-through mode whereby a user could effectively restore a recording on the fly. At the time, it was also one of a few programs available to the public that supported 24-bit/96 kHz sound files which was later found to facilitate impulse noise detection and FFT-based noise removal algorithms. In addition, DC-Art Millennium boasted over 15 real-time tools that could be used individually or in combination (called a multi-filter) and thus setting the restoration software benchmark for its time.
DC-Enhance/MP3 was released in February 2001 as a low cost product for improving the fidelity of MP3 audio files. Unlike other members of the DC-Art family DC-Enhance/MP3 did not include any tools for audio restoration, rather focusing on enhancement of bass and harmonic attributes of already digitised audio. Due to the limited function of this program it was rapidly superseded by other DC-Art versions which included MP3 enhancement as a part of the multifilter component.
As the name suggests, Audio Mentor was designed to take novice users "by the hand" and guide them through the restoration process of removing clicks, pops, hiss and surface noise from any recording format. In a rather innovative method, Audio Mentor took a user through a series of informative steps from setting the recording levels, noise reduction, sound enhancement to making a CD in minutes. It included facilities to automatically split a file into its individual tracks such as when transcribed from a cassette or LP record. In addition, it simplified the process of tracking audio files undergoing or having undergone the restoration process by automatically transferring them between various folders and included a novel mechanism for keeping track of what had been done on each individual file (e.g. noise reduction, Enhancement, Final Touches). DC-Audio Mentor underwent several months of beta testing before being released in mid July 2006.
Other improvements were aimed at novice users or reducing the time required to restore recordings made from old shellac records. These included new and simplified EZ DeClick and EZ DeCrackle filters for repairing unwanted impulse noises. Similarly, a weighting function was added to the median filter which had advantages for both de-crackling a recording and facilitating speech clarification by changing the "timbre" of the sound often required with forensic audio recordings. Other additions included a de-clipping filter and acoustical analysis facilities for spectrograph-voice prints.
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