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Today’s Truck & Sport Utility Performance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Typhoon\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Typhoon is without a doubt the most terrorizing sport\/utility on the highway. It attracts attention even from people who know little about cars and trucks. This was the driving force behind Panasonic’s selection of a Typhoon as their demonstration vehicle. Squeezing out the most from the truck, Panasonic installed two, yes two, separate systems. This is an excellent idea for demonstration purposes. The first set-up is a high-performance, reasonably priced system comprised of a CD player driving four speakers. The second system is a full-tilt, go-forbroke affair with cassette deck, CD changer, crossovers, equalizers, multiple amps and component loud speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the dash houses two head units it still appears stock looking because of the extra large stock GM radio mounting area. Both systems have phone-triggered Auto-Mute, a feature that reduces the stereos volume when a call is made or received on the Panasonic EB-H50 cellular phone. The “simpler” system sports a CQ-DP48 CD! receiver with a removable front panel. Its MASH one-bit digital analog converter supplies superb audio signals and the builtin four-channel amp (roughly 12 watts per channel) capably drives four loudspeakers. In this particular application, Panasonic utilized its Model EAB-H65 6.5-inch coaxial speakers in the front door and a pair of EAB-H95 6×9 coaxials in the rear. Any normal person would be pleased with this system’s performance. Abnormal people, read on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big kahuna system takes no prisoners. Its CQ-R75 cassette receiver (also with removable front panel) has built-in DSP circuitry, allowing the listener to tune the system to acoustically resemble a concert hall, living room or stadium. The unit also acts as a CD changer controller for for not one but two DP-60 changers. Each of these ultra-compact changers holds six CDs, and incorporates the MASH circuitry mentioned above. Audio signals pass through two CY-MC91 nine-channel electronic crossovers, each has center channel and subwoofer outputs. The signal from one of these crossovers is sent to an M-1004 amplifier. This versatile amp can be run in four-, three- or two-channel configuration. In the Typhoon it’s wired for three-channel duty, driving the rear speakers and center channel speaker. The rear component drivers are EAB HS55 5 1\/4-inch mids with an EAB-ST1 dome tweeter. This crossover also sends signals through a CY-EQ 10 equalizer to a second and third M-1004 amp. Each amp drives two EAB-W250 10-inch subwoofers. The EQ-10 can adjust 14 bands of equalization with up to 12dB boost or attenuation and has separate controls and outputs for center and subwoofer channels. The second MC-91 crossover feeds signals to a second EQ- 10 which, in turn, passes it on to a fourth M-1004, set-up in two-channel configuration which is good for 120 watts-per-channel. The amp drives the all-important front loudspeakers, EAB-HS65 6.5- inch mids and dash-mounted dome tweeters, E66 1 3\/8-inch units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would seem that even the sweetest sounds loose their magic. Why else would anyone want to drown out the muscular buzz of the Typhoon’s turbocharged 280-horse powerplant. But, hey remember it took two stereos to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n