SQOLOGY Car Audio Podcast

A general discussion about the early days of sound quality car audio competition, with around 300 years of experience (and a great SQOLOGY Podcast Reunion), including Scott Buwalda (Hybrid Audio Technologies), Mark Eldridge (Mobile Soundstage Engineering), Jeff Smith (AAMP Global), Chris Pate (MTI Acoustics), Dr. Doug Winker, and Nick Wingate (ORCA Design). With Erin Hardison, Klifton Keplinger, and Randy Kunin as your hosts.

MECA Live! with Steve Stern by Benny Z and Company

Officially our longest interview, ever. Our interview with Vinny Taylor of MECA, including some difficult but necessary discussions to work together as the family we are in order to maximize the potential of sound quality competition's future. Once ready, we'll release an edited version of the traditional interview elements of this interview and drop the sunset hammer on this one.

We interview Travis Chin, owner of IASCA Worldwide, during the Knoxville IV Tweak & Tune event at The Sound Factory in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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We discuss the 2020 Unified SQ Finals, Tom's birthday, and "Erin's Audio Corner" with Erin Hardison. https://www.facebook.com/sqology https://www.erinsaudiocorner.com/ https://www.soundgym.co/

A retrospective look at a career steeped in car audio, with the founder of 'Soundscape Car Audio' and 'American Soundscape', Dan Ungaro. American Soundscape Pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEI8QpZrQzU

Cristian joins us from EMMA UK to discuss EMMA in general and some of the planned implementation in the USA. We will continue in this interview format to review the rules and scoresheets, but future interviews will be provided directly to EMMA USA Competitor Members (http://store.emmanet.us/), rather than on this SQOLOGY Feed. The EMMA rules are downloadable here: http://www.emmanet.info/competition/rules/ EMMA UK: http://emmanet.uk/ EMMA USA: https://www.facebook.com/emmanetusa/ & http://emmanet.us/

A review of the Aggieland playlist and other car audio stuff with Nick Wingate. SQOLOGY Aggieland SQ Invitational, April 18-19, 2020. MTI Acoustics will hold an open house on April 17, everyone is invited! The list of tracks is as follows, available at this Qobuz playlist, except where noted with other links): https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2734219 1) Organ Symphony No. 5 in F minor 2) Battlestar Galactica: Main Theme https://music.apple.com/us/album/battlestar-galactica-main-theme/108119256?i=108118738 3) The Great Gate of Kiev 4) God Moves on the Water 5) If I Could Sing Your Blues https://music.apple.com/us/album/if-i-could-sing-your-blues/261629584?i=261629758 6) Wild World 7) The Stars and Stripes Forever 8) Coolsville 9) Bye Bye Blackbird 10) Adagio Su Due Spunti Tematici E Su Basso - Unavailable 11) Good Vibrations https://www.amazon.com/California-Project-Papa-Doo-Run/dp/B000003D63

We interview Harry Kimura, old school competitor extraordinaire!

Our first published live (and unedited) version of the SQOLOGY Podcast, hosted in England by EMMA UK. If you want to see the video version, you can watch it at our Facebook page, facebook.com/sqology — Live panel includes Mark Eldridge, Nick Wingate, Jeff Smith, Randy Kunin, Mike Myers, Chris Pate, Ben Zimmerman, and Erin Hardison (binkinipunk).

Happy New Year!

Our interview with David Navone of Navone Engineering and Autosound 2000. 0:00 - Introduction 1:07 - David's background in car audio 3:14 - David's background in competition 4:41 - Autosound 2000's beginning 6:48 - Various projects during the AS2K days 9:37 - Industry changes 10:16 - MTX 1000000 13:58 - What David's up to now 14:43 - David's memories in car audio 18:49 - Trends in car audio 25:26 - David's memorable interviews 28:13 - MP3 & Hi-Res 33:21 - The amplifier challenge

We interview Scott Buwalda, veteran competitor and founder of Hybrid Audio Technologies.

We interview the 2017 Installer of the Year, Chris Pate, owner of Mobile Toys, Inc. and host of the Aggieland Invitational, which is back and bigger than ever for 2019! We also announce the invitees of the 2019 Aggieland World Class SQ Challenge. 0:00 - Chris's background 6:24 - The Civic backstory 14:25 - Aggieland VII, 2019 Discussion 22:32 - Aggieland SQ Challenge Invitees Announcement 28:40 - Installer of the Year, 2017 32:27 - Chris's advice for newer competitors 36:45 - Chris's song picks