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who is making the factory sound systems for lexus?
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Originally posted by SVT Contour:
dnewma04,
Yes, I now recall a company by the name of Phase Linear but that is about all I remember about them.
I, too, will try to do some research on this topic as now I've piqued my own curiousity about Carver's car audio foray.
Stay tuned (ouch!). "The Aliante 12 is the second best subwoofer made by Phase Linear. Phase who? No I'm not talking about the Phase Linear brand that you can by at Circuit City or Best Buy. Although related they are two entirely different companies, but are owned and operated by Recoton International Holdings. This Phase Linear is a European division that had a vision of building high quality, high-end designs of speakers, subwoofers and amplifiers for the European market. They asked and were granted use of the venerable Phase Linear brand name with the intent of furthering the mark created by Bob Carver and others of the early Phase Linear brand of home audio devices from the 1970's into today's modern car audio industry."
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Originally posted by coloradosvt:
who is making the factory sound systems for lexus? Mark Levinson, though I think only in name.
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Originally posted by ESC:
Mark Levinson, though I think only in name. I suspect that you are correct. I can't believe that Levinson would stoop so low.
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ESC,
Thanks alot for saving me probably hours searching the Internet for the answer.
I appreciate the information.
dnewma04,
You are correct that it is indeed Mark Levinson who has sold his audio soul to Lexus for marketing purposes.
Of course I don't know who is more to blaim for this sacrilege; Levinson for selling out or Lexus for trying to exploit a high end name to bolster their own luxury image amongst the status symbol obsessed yuppies who make up their customer base.
On a similar musical note (ouch!), isn't the OEM system in the new Infiniti Q-45 provided by Nakamichi?
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Originally posted by SVT Contour:
ESC,
Thanks alot for saving me probably hours searching the Internet for the answer.
I appreciate the information.
dnewma04,
You are correct that it is indeed Mark Levinson who has sold his audio soul to Lexus for marketing purposes.
Of course I don't know who is more to blaim for this sacrilege; Levinson for selling out or Lexus for trying to exploit a high end name to bolster their own luxury image amongst the status symbol obsessed yuppies who make up their customer base.
On a similar musical note (ouch!), isn't the OEM system in the new Infiniti Q-45 provided by Nakamichi? SVT Contour, no problem, I had just read that comment on Phase Linear earlier in the day so it was easy to find. I'm not that familiar with high end audio so I don't know who Mark Levinson is, but he's no longer associated with the brand, it's part of the Harmon group now. The last Lexus system was Nakamichi. Did you know a Mcintosh system is optional on Subaru's? And the optional Volvo C70 is Dynaudio.
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ESC, Oops, me bad. I stand corrected yet again.  Geez, here I thought I was the master of home/car audio trivia. Seems I now have to pass the crown to you... 
1999 SVT Contour, #2140 of 2760, Tropic Green - Medium Prairie Tan
Koni Sport struts; TSW Blade wheels; Nakamichi, a/d/s/, Boston Acoustics, Infinity I.C.E.
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Yo Tim,
How about a post install pic? How did you mount it? IIRC, that's a long amp.........
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Originally posted by SVT Contour: ESC,
Oops, me bad. I stand corrected yet again.
Geez, here I thought I was the master of home/car audio trivia.
Seems I now have to pass the crown to you... Actually, Levinson is still actively involved with the compnay but Harman did purchase them. I'm still upset that McIntosh put that system in a subaru. It really wasn't anything to get excited over anyway. IIRC, it used a 6x9 sub... :rolleyes: Don't I get some credit for useless HT and car audio trivia? I am the one that mentioned Phase Linear first! :p
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Did anyone know that McIntosh is now owned by Clarion?   Not that Clarion is bad in any way, it's just a little depressing to me.
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