Recent content by Michael Marklund

Ryan, Fun to drive? Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Michael

Through my 15+ year career in the high end car business, I have had as customers or met these people: Alice Cooper Michael Nesmith (monkees) Dave Mustaine (megadeath) Barry Bonds (Giants) Tony Gwynn (padres) Sammy Seale (Chargers) Junior Seau (Chargers) Mark Parent (Padres) Bip...

Bill, Wrong. AMG is the performance division of Benz. Just like "M" (Motorsport) is the performance division of BMW. All Mercedes dealers sell AMG cars. They are part of the regular dealer stock. (Although they are manufactured in a separate section of Benz in Germany.) Personal choice for...

This is the one for me too. Emailed Ron at SVS. Tried to see if they had a trade-in program. No such luck. Ron did say, though, that since I am a repeat buyer, there's no shipping charge on the pb2+! That'll save a few $$. Will wait to put my order in until they are shipping. Need to sell...

Brian, I'll second the W (Westin). Stayed there for a 3day weekend last September. Westin's beds are probably some of the best in the business. All the rooms also have killer shower heads. It's close to everything downtown. Wouldn't walk to Safeco, but the hotel has a shuttle that will take...

MickeS, Ran your Carfax for you. Car looks good. No odometer rollback. Not salvaged. Not a manufacturer buyback. Shows being involved in one accident in Tucson,AZ on 10/18/00. Only says total accident damage over $1000.(Carfax shows no "severe" accident damage.) Last reported sale was at...

Michael T, From the 3800 owner's manual (features section): AL24 ProcessingPlus, an advanced version of conventional AL24 processing, is a newly developed analog waveform reproduction technology, and offers compatability with the high number of bits and high sampling rates of next...

Doug, I got the Ah! last week and it's still in carton in my garage. (Along w/ 3 monoblocks, a new rack and a bunch of new power cords/interconnects.) Have not had time time to tear down system and put new rack/equipment. Hopefully this weekend.:) My Ah! has 3 sets of extra tubes and 2...

Keith, Side question for you... Your website upgrade list says you want to add the upsampler for your Ah! Njoe Tjoeb cd player. Your system list and photos don't show that cd player. Do you not have it anymore or have yet to get one? Just curious. I bought one last week. Decided to replace...

Keith, FWIW...Jeff Talmadge w/ Denon USA has posted on AVS that the 3800 will be discontinued. Not yet though. It will be replaced w/ the 3900 "this fall". Don't know any details other than that. Am currently using a 9/02 3800. Bought in Jan 02. Knew about chroma and skip problen when I...

Dean, Although a Mercedes, none of the tuners are allowed (by Benz) to alter the grille and keep the Star intact. Hence, most of these modded cars have odd grille logos. Btw, most of these upper end tuners do work in the USA. You do not have to import to get one. However, these...

Charles, It's a V8 not a V6. Bad lighting/reflection in photo. Carlsson's website says it's based on the SL55 which is only a V8. The blower on top of the engine (seen on Carlsson's website is the V8 blower, not the V6. Car would be called a CK32 if it was a V6. Carlsson's designation is a...

Dean, It's not a SL350 or a SL500. It's a tuned SL55 AMG. AMG is the "hotrod" division of Mercedes-Benz. Carlsson adds some horsepower (about 90), a body kit, wheels and some other fluff. Car in the photos is a non-USA car. (note: cloth insert in seats is not a US option.) Although the...

Got rid of tape deck?...no. Just bought one though. New Sony ES dual deck. Store goofed too. Price was $350 and they said it was on special for $100 plus 20%off. Paid a whopping $79.00. Sent my Dad down to pick one up and they said it was supposed to be $250. (Wife is an ice skating coach and...

Suppose I mind as well chime in... I am on my second Range Rover. First was an 89 and now a 96. The first one I bought used w/ 125k miles. Drove it til 192k miles. My current one, I just bought used w/ 60k miles. Let me add that I have been a service advisor for 15 years. Three years of which...