MB Quart buy out

Where have you been?

https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=63036&KW=mb+quart

dwarren, I missed that post completely! Just read about it in Twice magazine today. God it sucks getting old!

forbidden wrote:

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MB Crunch, here we come!

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MB Crunch.  Hmm, that has a nice ring to it.  I know a Chinese manufacturer who'll do us up a couple dozen knock-offs with that label and chrome flames on them.  Wanna custom line at Forbidden Audio?  We can call them the "MB Crunch SPL Max" or how about the "MB Crunch Inseminator."  

Nah, I think the sound-activated blue LED pimp-lights should be sold as an add-on.  The MB Crunch "Asss Ring" designed to clip right onto the woofer frame.  We could also include adhesive-backed aluminum foil to cover the woofer cone so it reflects the flash and you can see the bump.  Oh, and a bandpass enclosure with inverted woofer mounting and 8" diameter chrome-plated ports, with the "Asss Rings" on the inside flashing through a plexiglas window, with the whole system rated, of course, at 10000 watts (peak.)

There should be multiple sized woofers in all-in-one boxes available too! 18"s and 10"s, 15"s and 8"s! Marvelous ideas here folks!  

auex]H wrote:

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w about a line of indash monitors that only play video with the key off??? Of course nav only works in this mode as well. Also they can only be used in positive grounding vehicles.

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oh, so my 1970 volvo 1800e would work well with the positive grounding setup. Good to know.

At high engine speeds the spring-loaded spinner is also pushed out of the exhaust tip, giving a visual indication of the revving engine.  Furthermore, the exhaust gases emanating from the tailpipe will be uniformly dispersed into the atmosphere.

I want this...NOW.  But how can I ride behind me so I can look at it spin?

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Build the box so that it performs well in the worst case scenario and, in return, it will reward you at all times.

Ironically, there are some good ideas in this post for a new product line.  'Course you have to read between the cynicism lines, but seriously look at what's selling these days.  Flashing LED's on a sub, chromed drivers, inverted design enclosures...

If these ideas are just floating around your heads then there are probably more in there too.  If someone decides to be industrious I'm fairly sure you could pull it off.  You should seriously think about, uh, selling out completely & making this happen.

In all seriousness it isn't that hard to do.  And it wouldn't take that much start-up capital.  I know this from experience, not conjecture.  there is start-up $$ out there if you are creative & look.  All you need is one major retailer to pick you up and you're off & running.  And with the proliferation of Ebay you really don't need that.

Look at your assets - you guys know audio & cars, you know the market, you know what sells & what doesn't.  And you've probably got plenty of crazy ideas about products daily, ideas that make you say, "someone would make a fortune if they made ______."  This is your chance to be that someone.  That bling bling tail pipe spinner is a great example - 243,000 hits to that website.

I'm not ragging on you at all, boulderguy. I see what you are getting at, and was actually curious to know if you had done something like it, which you say you have. You brought up details that sounded like you either know about it or have done it.

So what is that you have done, outside of car audio?

I was afraid this would lead here...

I don't want to turn this into a forum about me.  But since you asked, I started a small manufacturing biz for the outdoor industry that came from ideas just like this.  Moderate success, poor choice of partner.  Sold it off a year ago.  Hell of a lot of fun tho to take an idea & turn it into reality.  Have taken that experience into bicycle race promoting, hoping to make that a FT thing (meaning profitable & sustainable) in the next 24 months.  It doesn't pay the bills, but it will in 2 years.  Meanwhile I have a day job also.

Starting to sound like Tony Robbins, I know.  If there's one thing I learned from starting ventures like this it's that when we chase dreams we either win big or fail even bigger, but at least we had the guts to live on our own terms & take a chance.  And in reality, we never really lose - my failures have led to other successes - $$.  Enough of that.

One other thing it does - it drives you to work late into the nite like this...(gotta get off the forums!).

tcss]I wrote:

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's amazing how off topic this has gone, but seeing where it is now I will share a semi funny start up story. In the mid 70s when I was also in home stereo we came up with a late night, far to many chemicals idea. We designed a women's vibrator that plugged into the headphone jack of a home receiver. It would vibrate at 100 hz to the music. Built the prototype, manufactured about 500 of them, took out full page ads in all of the "men's" magazines. How could this miss we thought? Lost our shirts, still have about 499 of them stored somewhere. Lesson learned? Good ideas are not happening at 2 in the morning with a bunch of mind altered friends.

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I see Xmas gifts for your entire family for several years...