CarMiZa- MasterTech Expo Visitors with Earl Zausmer

The MasterTech Expo is this week in Mesa AZ, and many car audio people are in town. A few guys came over to the house to check out the progress on CarMiZa and hear some legendary old school car audio stories from the man himself, Earl Zausmer. Enjoy!

[@hiresaudiocosta873]

That was awesome!!! I actually felt as if I were there with you all instead of watching a KZbin video. Got lost in Earls stories. 😊. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

[@PrecisionMike]

@hiresaudiocosta873- Awesome! Gald you enjoyed it. Great times for sure!

[@yomama5785]

Its pretty cool to hear these stories and realize many of the concepts and setup you taught me were coming from Earl. They still get integrated into my cars! Awesome.

[@PrecisionMike]

@yomama5785 - hey buddy! yes, I agree!

[@MyTgangsta]

Wow I just learn alot here but curious when earl said about the seat position and about everyone who sits in the seat gets the same imaging but does that include people taller or short and is it frequency dependent meaning if the the midrange was crossover higher like 500hz on the dash would it still sound the same or it has to be set at the crossover he picked and why did he chose that crossover point or did he play with different ones and decided on it because it felt right to him meaning earl

[@PrecisionMike]

@MyTgangsta - cool, glad to hear you enjoyed the video! As others have indicated in the comments, the objective of the laser pointer that was in a passenger C pillar was to align the listener to the correct place. When Earl & Henry built the dash speakers, they used a laser from the driver, to the driver's ears. From there, the laser in the C pillar was added, which hit Earl's right ear, when the seat was in the correct position. When others got in the car, they would adjust the seat (watching the laser hit their hear in the rearview mirror) until the laser hit their right ear. This way, every listener's head was in the exact same place, and the sound and imaging was magical

[@robolop]

I met Earl at the IASCA Finals in Greenville Atlanta. We then listened to this car. The bass and kikbas were always a slap in the face. Not normal. We talked to him for a long time. He advised us to buy CDs from Mapleshade. These are one of the best recordings available.

[@PrecisionMike]

@cl55amg392kllr - cool story, and I agree about the Mapleshade CDs!

[@JasonWW2000]

I got to listen to it at the IASCA finals in Dallas, maybe 95?, I was in the passenger seat and I swore the sub was not in the kickpanel, but in the floor board. The drivers side had to be in the kick panel because of the pedals, but it seemed there was a big hump in the floor on the passenger side. Have I been mistaken all these years? (Ps, I have not watched all your vids yet. This may have already been talked about)

[@PrecisionMike]

@JasonWW2000- There were two builds, know as "version 1" and "version 2". Version 1 had the B&W 13" flushed into the kickpanels and the 4.5" and tweeter motorized out of the dash. Version 2 (likely what you saw) have the B&W 15" in the foot well, taking up a large amount of space. V2 had large pods with 6.5" drivers that sat on the dash. Many would agree that V1 was far superior in every way. I am rebuilding the car back to V1.

[@JasonWW2000]

The reason the imaging stayed the same is because they adjusted the judges seating position so their head was always in the same location.

[@PrecisionMike]

@JasonWW2000 - NAILED it!

[@dakenned1]

So the thing that Earl talks about noticing on Mineo's Camaro... Its interesting to see how they actually built ideas from eachother. Mike always respected Earl big time, if i had to guess because Earl was always doing HIS own thing, not what everyone mainstream was doing. The laser pointer idea we all used that later, especially for RTA, not with a laser pointer but with a piece of wire you could attach to the steering wheel and it would tell you where to put the mic. Brings back a lot of fun memories for sure. For what its worth, in this car I was always aligned but my torso is much larger than Earl so if i wanted perfect alignment I had to duck down a bit :) One idea we never got around to doing was having the seat adjust itself in a car to align to a spot like that. Basically sit down, the seat moves itself to where it needs to be for your posture.

[@PrecisionMike]

@dakenned1- Cool memories! And agree with having to crouch down a bit to be "laser aligned" in the BMW. I am 6' tall, so when I set up the same process, most people will not have to sit lower.

[@dakenned1]

@precisionmike I'm pretty sure you were with me on my first demo of that car out in Farmingdale

[@PrecisionMike]

@@dakenned1 whoa very cool! I have fond memories of that show, one of my favorites. I wonder if anyone have video footage or f that show

[@SQ_og]

Which video has the cd titles?

[@SQ_og]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKGaYp-Jg8SbfpYsi=wwDAGsIwBqfR8iDW

[@PrecisionMike]

@supervdj- There are mentions of some of the CDs in some other videos on the channel, but I do not recall exactly which. At some point, I will create a video with CDs that I suggest, and provide a description of each. In the mean time, here are a few that come to mind. Big Joe Maher- Mojo, À La Carte Brass and Percussion- Boogeyin'! Swamprock, Salsa & 'Trane, Cincinnati Orchestra with Erich Kunzel- Young at Heart. Those are my favorites!