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Kinja'd!!! "FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem" (fuelstratifiedinjection)
06/27/2016 at 06:54 • Filed to: None

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Kinja'd!!! Schaefft > FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem
06/27/2016 at 07:38

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Nice


Kinja'd!!! SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem
06/27/2016 at 07:48

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Bose? HiFi? Lulz


Kinja'd!!! FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
06/27/2016 at 08:02

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Are they that bad? Well, Bose makes badass Bluetooth speakers


Kinja'd!!! FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > Schaefft
06/27/2016 at 08:03

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Erich Sixt knew what was good.


Kinja'd!!! SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem
06/27/2016 at 08:19

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It’s not that they’re that bad as much as they’re not good. You can get way better for way less. To me, Bose are like the Apple of audio. You’re basically paying alot of money for cute packaging and a patronizing ad campaign designed to make you feel like you’re special for buying it. For the price of pitiful Bose midrange speakers, you can pick up some no-bullshit cheap studio monitors like KRK Rokits or M Audio BX5s (probably sold as something else now since IIRC M-Audio were consolidated with Avid’s other divisions) that have the advantage of also being active so you don’t have to find a good receiver. You can just get a passive trimmer and call it a day. I will admit to being somewhat impressed by the sound from my uncle’s bluetooth thing for the size of the package, but it still didn’t sound good per se and I didn’t see the reason for the super-tiny packaging in the first place.


Kinja'd!!! Aaron M - MasoFiST > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
06/27/2016 at 08:50

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Their target audience was originally people who were turned off by all the hi-fi dick-measuring that came into style in the 70s and 80s. As such, the compact units were generally better than anything their customers had ever heard, but once MOSFET amps were a wider thing and self-contained active systems got cheaper, they were no longer special.

In 83 though, they were probably one of the better car stereo designers. That was the year they started designing enclosures and systems to match the frequency characteristics of each individual vehicle, and they were the first ones to do it.


Kinja'd!!! fintail > FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem
06/27/2016 at 09:21

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No Brabus in the current Sixt fleet, but AMGs show up now and then.


Kinja'd!!! SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Aaron M - MasoFiST
06/27/2016 at 09:52

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That makes a ton of sense. Never really payed attention to car audio, but in the home arena, they’ve always made me shudder. Personally, I love me some 70's dick-wagging wood-panelled receivers, but really prefer an old McIntosh MC240 or something super accurate. Bose is the wrong kind of colored for me. To this day, when someone’s looking for a good home audio receiver, I tell them to go to the flea market and buy the heaviest one they have with wood panels. No one’s been disappointed yet.


Kinja'd!!! Aaron M - MasoFiST > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
06/27/2016 at 10:11

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My family lived in a rich town with no garbage service, so all of our stereo systems came from the town dump. My brother has a set of old wood-paneled KLH speakers that were thrown out, and my dad pulled an entire Klipsch 5.1 system, receiver and all, from a neighbor of ours that was going to throw it away when they upgraded. Of course, we’re all engineers at heart who love running wire and futzing with equalizer settings and troubleshooting all of our random-ass components.


Kinja'd!!! FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > fintail
06/27/2016 at 10:12

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Sixt does have some cool rentals. I also usually see new cars from them first rather than by someone private. Just last week I saw the new E Class for the first time and it was a rental.


Kinja'd!!! fintail > FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem
06/27/2016 at 10:38

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Yep I see W213 has been in German fleets for maybe a couple months now, not a common sight yet, but they are out there. They just started arriving in NA about 10 days ago, I think. The exterior is pretty tame, but the interior is quite nice.

I’ve rented from Sixt every time I needed a car in Germany, and have always received a nicely equipped vehicle.


Kinja'd!!! FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > fintail
06/27/2016 at 10:44

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I think the E Class is the best looking Mercedes sedan currently. Sixt usually has a large selection of good cars.


Kinja'd!!! SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Aaron M - MasoFiST
06/27/2016 at 11:08

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You’d love my studio setup. I’ve mostly built my own transformer balanced preamps and compressors by hand.


Kinja'd!!! Aaron M - MasoFiST > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
06/27/2016 at 11:19

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Nice. I don’t think we got any deeper than installing new drivers in enclosures or rebuilding crossovers.


Kinja'd!!! fintail > FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem
06/27/2016 at 21:19

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I like the W212, it aged well, but have only seen one W213 in the metal, other than camo-wrapped ones I saw in Stuttgart last year. It’s definitely not ugly anyway.

Sixt in the US isn’t always as well-equipped, but has some offerings not typical for American fleets - A8, S, 7er, etc.


Kinja'd!!! FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > fintail
06/28/2016 at 03:29

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The 212 is what a Mercedes should be; big, comfy, reliable and elegant. Much better than the somewhat awkward W210 and W211.

I didn’t know that Sixt operated in the US.