Went to a ""High End Shop" today, was an experience

[smullen 1]

Certainly was different than any other shop that I have been too... This place mostly works on Vetts, Range Rovers, BMWs, Benz, etc...

Everything Soldered and HeatShrinked, no Crimps or scotch locks in the place... All wires put in a braided loom type sheathing, no wires visable except as they come out of the amps...

They absolutly hate passive Crossovers, really pushed active systems...

They sell Zapco, Audisan <SP> and Hertz.. etc... Holy Crap those Hertz sounded good.... Started at about 400. a pair and up too 3K a pair... Tad over my budget... By Far!!!

Some of their Zapco and Audison gear, was all programable via USB port... Each of the benches had RTAs and a bunch of other decent testing tools...

Shoud have seen the install work these guys do... These guys guys were not installers but artists...

They had a dedicated wood shop just for wait for it.............. Wood... and a steel fab shop, with racks of steel stock that they make all their amp rack frames out of, plasma cutters, sheet steel for fabing up brackets, adapters and mounts, each install bay has a set of shelves where all the parts of your vehicle go and all the screws and crap get bagged and tagged...

The cleanliness and organization of the work areas was really nice too see...

Whole tour took almost an hour, maybe a bit longer...

As we were talking about what I was wanting to do, He asked what kind of amps I was planning on using in my sytem and I showed him my Sundowns, Not Impressed he wasn't....

He was like, what kind of Sub, are you running that needs an amp like that??? Must be really inefficient...

You could tell these guys really paid attention to detail, to the N-th degree, but no offense to them (not their fault) but I really felt like I was out of my range, by several notches....

I woulda really like to have them put an alarm on my ride, but I just cannot afford their rates... Quote for just an alarm was 800.00

Edited December 20, 2009 by smullen

[Duran 387]

I always loved the skills and passion those guys have, but their close mindedness keeps me away.

[todd.brust 29]

800 for an alarm?!?!

WE will do, alarm/ remote starts for 550 Installed! That's to top end viper with lifetime warranty. Pretty much the only thing we don't cover are remotes.

Thats kind of high, but that's not to say they don't do good work.

[bassahaulic 155]

I always loved the skills and passion those guys have, but their close mindedness keeps me away.

x2.

There are ZERO shops out here like that. But most here are still closed minded.