Car Audio Nationals SQ CD Giveaway

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Car Audio Nationals has given us 5 of their new SQ competition CD's to give away to you guys (and gals).

Car Audio Nationals is a Sound Quality car audio series featuring shows sanctioned by IASCA, MECA and USACi with additional judging scheduled for the Final event in September, 2008. It features a prize of over $500.00 per show with a grand prize purse of $3,000.00. They have a very active competitor base quite a number of big name judges.

For more information on becoming a part of Car Audio Nationals, please see their website at CarAudioNationals.com.

More info on the CD's after the jump.

"Most of the current CDs are recorded with multiple microphones in a dead-sounding studio, with reverb and overdubs added in the mix. We decided that partnering with a audiophile record label vs. building and mastering a CD from scratch ourselves would end up sounding better and be better for you as a competitor.

After looking at a wide variety of labels, other audiophile labels do great recordings, too, but few capture the full-bodied tonality that we were looking for. And fewer still have signed an eclectic array of artists. We selected Chesky Records to partner with to build this disk.

Chesky's approach is purer: It records in the natural reverberance of St. Peter's Church in Manhattan, using custom-made vacuum-tube recording gear, a single microphone (in most cases), and no audio processing or overdubbing. The result is a spacious, natural sound you simply cannot hear in ordinary commercial recordings. (See Equipment List)" - Car Audio Nationals

Track Listing:
1 - 52nd Street
2 - Love and Happiness
3 - Oh Well
4 - Dinah
5 - Spooky
6 - Maria Mulata
7 - Three Little Birds
8 - Fever
9 - No Flight Tonight
10 - Still Haven't Found What I Am Looking For
11 - The Chesky Style: An A/B comparison
12 - Channel ID/Phase Test
13 - Balance Test
14 - Pink Noise
15 - Subwoofer Crossover Test

The CD's can be purchased directly from Car Audio Nationals for $11 on their website.

Liner Notes for the CD
Car Audio & Electronics Review of the CD


This giveaway is open to anyone in the US (our staff is excluded of course). The usual rules apply, just leave a comment on this post to enter and only one entry will count per person. Five winners will be randomly selected Thursday, May 1st at 10pm EST and we will notify them via email.