GOTTA HAVE IT
SoundstreamXXX Amplifier
By Ari Rubin
Posted on Thursday, Sep 16, 2004

You are on a secret mission for the United States Government. You have been assigned to bring down a suspected anarchist/terrorist/drug ring made up of former Northern Irish nationals, KGB agents, and ex-triad members. They want to bring about the fall of Western civilization and not exactly rule the world, but be able to run roughshod over it because, with no government around, there will be no one there to stop them.

You have been chosen by the government to try and stop them. You were hand picked by a panel of leading experts because of your familiarity with the Car Sound scene. (Apparently, one of their biggest gripes with governments, in general, is noise restriction laws. They like to play their music loud all of the time.)

You walk into the top secret organizational facility that the syndicate is using for a hideout, a converted Gothic cathedral in the French countryside, put on your special filter goggles that the agent has given you, and proceed to the stone with the X marked on it that you can now see with the aid of your spy glasses. You meet your contact and takes you to a room. He tells you that he is going to wait outside the room while you pick out the stuff that you need for your ride (it is a pre-requisite of membership in their clandestine group that you have a kick-ass Car Sound system).

You open the door and proceed into the secret chamber of gear. You glance around at all of the speakers, amps, subs, and head units strewn about the floor, but your eye is drawn to one amp in particular. You walk over to it and read the tag. It is the Soundstream XXX, a 6-kilowatt behemoth amplifier that handles source voltages up to 18 volts.

You smile wickedly, and say-to no one in particular, “The things I’m going to do for my system.”