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[wazzab4]

Intermediate
Travis Cooper (Lancer) 103points 1st
Matthew Sriow (Honda Accord Euro) 102points 2nd + Judges Choice (iluvmusik)
Jason Salmon (AU Falcon) 97points (senh)
Ben Jackson (Nissan Pulsar) 92points (Incredible hulk)
Jason Tankard (Nissan Skyline) 87points
Antony Kline-Spink (Holden Berlina) 84points (Spink!)
Nathan Ross (Supra) 52points (TRD)
Aaron Graham (VY Commodore) 50points

Advanced
Warren (Fairlane G8) 112points 1st (wazzab4)
Jess Jalkanen (Mirage) 109points 2nd (~JeSs~)
Richard Clery (Lancer) 107points (scraverX)
Chris Vidler (Fairlane) 93points (Data mine)

Expert
James Cockman (VZ Commodore) 119points 1st (2loud2old)
BDL Car Stereo (Peugot) 113points 2nd (BDL CAR STEREO)
Michael Foley (Mini) 100points (ROLEYFOLEY)
Antony Hughes (VW Beetle) 99points (268669)
Peter Harlovic (Alfa) 88points (muzzy)

Show
Jess Jalkanen (Mirage) 85points 1st (~JeSs~)
Jason Tankard (Nissan Skyline) 56points 2nd
Warren (Fairlane G8) 48points (wazzab4)
Richard Clery (Lancer) 43points (scraverX)
Aaron Graham (VY Commodore) 29points
Nathan Ross (Supra) 23points (TRD)

Edited by wazzab4, 05 February 2012 - 12:02 PM.

[~Spyne~]

Congrats guys. Full results and scores coming soon, I assume?

[TRD]

Was good to meet everyone today. Seems I certainly have a lot of catch up to do. See how I can go for the next event!

[muzzy66]

Nice turnout today, and it was great to see all the blue sky's and sunshine after the last few days of ugly weather (though my lobster-red skin would disagree with me!).

Seems there are plenty of cars out there that have a lot of potential, which is great to see! Big thanks to the organisers, judges and the hosts for making the event possible - as always it was great to see some old faces again!

Edited by muzzy66, 04 February 2012 - 11:02 PM.

[2LOUD2OLD]

Congrats guys. Full results and scores coming soon, I assume?

yeah Adam, datamine will have them up in the next day or so

was a fantastic day, some great sounding cars and seeing as I judged novice with only one competitor I finally had a chance to listen to a buch more cars.
couldn't of asked for any better weather. Was great to see a good showing from the NSW boys.
Absolutely rapt with a win in my first run in expert class. major congrats to Waz for a win on his car's first event, even if it did take 2.5 years to get there.

Thanks must of course go to Focal for sponsoring the event. Focal have been amazing with their ongoing support of MEA ACT
Thanks to Autotech Services for again hosting a great event, they certainly provide an ideal venue for our events and have also supported us for many years.

[iluvmusik]

What a long day ! Arrived home after midnight. It's a pleasure to meet everyone. Most friendly people I've ever met.

I got these

 MEA ACT Trophies.jpg   816.51K   3 downloads

Thanks to Marty, Dan and Paul of Fhrx for the nice sound system and for winning these trophies. They are rightfully yours.

Thanks to the organisers and judges for making this event possible.

Thanks to all competitors who make the day interesting. I get to listen to lots of cars sound system.

Thanks to my travelling companions Ant and Muzzy, we arrived safely

[muzzy66]

Thank's for coming Matt, especially considering it was so soon after you car being finished! It was good to finally meet you and also good to see you got some good results. I know you were really unsure for a while of what gear to use, so I'm glad you are happy with what you decided on!

Also I'd like to give a quick heads up to Anthony (Spink!) for the install in his Commodore. The second I jumped into this car the first thing I noticed is how clean those speakers sound, but the tuning was holding them back a little from achieving their potential. After two quick experimental changes it already improved quite dramatically. It's a nice install layout with some great gear, and with the new amp and a little tuning time I think this system has the potential for some really great results. Keep it up!

All this listening to (and talking about) car audio has made me even more impatient to get the gear in my car and get this install done! If all goes to plan hopefully it that won't be to far away.

[~JeSs~]

Bit hot for the comp, dang weather report is lies, all lies.
A couple of new faces, but the numbers were down a bit from last years round at Autotech. Great location for comps, always good photos to be had here.

Had a listen to a few cars, Mini in size not in sound, and the Spink mobile might have us tweaking our 'family' car for upcoming events, if time permits. Also cheers to scraverX for playing some floyd through his noice system.

Photo dump
http://www.facebook....=3&l=cd170f33ac

(as ususal, got nuts with the tags, if that's your bag)

Edited by ~JeSs~, 05 February 2012 - 12:38 AM.

[data_mine]

Congrats guys. Full results and scores coming soon, I assume?

Of course.

Intermediate
Travis Cooper (Lancer) 103points 1st
Matthew Sriow (Honda Accord Euro) 102points 2nd + Judges Choice
Jason Salmon (AU Falcon) 97points
Ben Jackson (Nissan Pulsar) 92points
Jason Tankard (Nissan Skyline) 87points
Antony Kline-Spink (Holden Berlina) 84points
Nathan Ross (Supra) 52points
Aaron Graham (VY Commodore) 50points

Advanced
Warren (Fairlane G8) 112points 1st
Jess Jalkanen (Mirage) 109points 2nd
Richard Clery (Lancer) 107points
Chris Vidler (Fairlane) 93points

Expert
James Cockman (VZ Commodore) 119points 1st
BDL Car Stereo (Peugot) 113points 2nd
Michael Foley (Mini) 100points
Antony Hughes (VW Beetle) 99points
Peter Harlovic (Alfa) 88points

Show
Jess Jalkanen (Mirage) 85points 1st
Jason Tankard (Nissan Skyline) 56points 2nd
Warren (Fairlane G8) 48points
Richard Clery (Lancer) 43points
Aaron Graham (VY Commodore) 29points
Nathan Ross (Supra) 23points

As always Jess is the woman to beat, setting the standard in Show class, and doing damn well in SQ too.
I entered my new daily driver, with bog stock 15 year old factory stereo - damn it was hard to get the judging material on cassette.
We had some new faces, all the regulars, and some old friends from Sydney coming down, and getting shown that you can't rock up to Canberra with an unfinished system, you'll get owned.

Thanks to the judges; Pat, James, Chris, myself, and now Warren (while he's always worked second show judge, he's now in the - literally - hot seat) for working in what was a surprisingly hot day - despite what the mercury said.

The surprise of the day for me (judging Expert) was BDL's Peugot, filled good gear and potential, and was always good, but not great. Today it stepped up to great. Watch out James. Also Jess and Richard, stepping up into Advanced from Intermediate last year, and holding their own.

Well done and thanks to all our competitors, as you can see from the points line up, any point you can get is valuable, it's tight up the top, and there's no breathing space anywhere in the classes.

Thanks to Ed (Autotech) for opening up for us, providing some shade, and running some cars up on the dyno, the winner there a green VL Turbo doing ~360rwkw.

[scraverX]

Wow, considering the judging is more critical in Advanced... I did a lot better then I expected. Especially with only a 2 point gap to Jess.

[iluvmusik]

^ I love your car Richard. It's quite a complete package. Good looks, good sound Thanks for the listen. I enjoyed it.

The other car that impressed me sound wise is James (2LOUD2OLD). It is very nice Well it has to be if it keeps coming 1st.

Well done Spink! Freshly minted a-pillars and I actually thought it sounded good.

Ant's car...omg his 8 channels amp took up the whole back seat and horns !!! There should be an award for thinking outside the square

Warren's car..unfortunately didn't listen to it. I thought I love my Ultimo but he has 2 !!!! and the Utopias Be kit 7 - killer

Lastly as we were about to leave, 4 people crammed into Syd-monster's Honda and it was sounding quite loud even from where I was standing outside. Then he promptly came out, open the boot and reveal the remnants of a Christmas tree and underneath a sub that is not connected and the car is sounding loud !

[wazzab4]

OK so Jame (2lound2old) posted some results when he got back to my place, when Data mine adds them to the thread i will put them in the 1st post.

Matt (iluvmusik) next round it will be there to have a listen, As for your car i didn't even get to walk over to it.
Next time I need to see and listen to your car and Ants car as well.

Now off to tune the car before the next round.
I have some issue's to fix noise is my 1st thing to tackle.

Wazza

[2LOUD2OLD]

when Data mine adds them to the thread i will put them in the 1st post.

umm waz have alook at post #8

[Sierra]

Congratulations to everyone ... sounds like it was an awesome event

Great weather, great turnout what more could you want!!

Nice one James on your debut win in Expert ... and congrats to all the other winners and place getters.


Pics or it didn't happen

[2LOUD2OLD]

here Al
http://www.facebook....=3&l=cd170f33ac

[wazzab4]

Ok so the hangover missed that.

[muzzy66]

Peter Harlovic (Alfa) 88points

Wow, I was expecting a 50 at best. All things considered that's a surprisingly decent score! At least now once the install is done I'll have a chance at catching up if I put some effort into it

As always Jess is the woman to beat, setting the standard in Show class, and doing damn well in SQ too.

I had the pleasure of judging this car once before and it's just a really nice sounding system. Kind of reminds lot of Alan's XR6 in that it's a simple layout, yet just works really well. Well deserved results!

Edited by muzzy66, 05 February 2012 - 10:53 AM.

[2013FOCUS]

Waz or Chris, is it possible to include the MEA usernames against the competitor/car names?

For those interstate, it will help put a car/person to their MEA persona..

Thanks, Mark

[wazzab4]

Yep i can feel in the ones i know.

[Sierra]

here Al
http://www.facebook....=3&l=cd170f33ac

Thanks James ... Great Pics

[Sierra]

Yep i can feel in the ones i know.

Question is Waz ... would they really want you to "feel" them in?

[wazzab4]

Ok still blaming the hangover.

[2013FOCUS]

Thanks Waz, I know what you meant to type..

Congrats to all on what appears to have been a great day and congrats to all the winners and placegetters.

Looking at the points scores in all classes, your season is going to be a close one!

Mark

[iluvmusik]

Question is Waz ... would they really want you to "feel" them in?

Eeeew ....Waz you shouldn't go bottoms up non stop the whole night !

[muzzy66]

Reow...who said car audio isn't sexy!!

[scraverX]

^ I love your car Richard. It's quite a complete package. Good looks, good sound Thanks for the listen. I enjoyed it.

Thanks, you aren't the first person to say they like the sound of my car. Overall Linearity has always scored quite well and at least two judges have said it's very easy to listen to. Looking back over my score data (All the way to my very first round, 06/06/2010) Linearity has been scored at 8 or 9 six out of eight times including this round.

Nine, with 2-way split and sub in advanced!!!

[2LOUD2OLD]

Thanks James ... Great Pics

Not my pics Al, but you're welcome

[Sierra]

What I should have said was ... thanks for the link James ... and great pics Timo

[frogslapper]

Sounds like a great day.Well done everyone,the question is will anyone beat James?
I heard it at nationals and was very impressed.

[iluvmusik]

Umm what's the Judges choice trophy for?