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773 = lumens we’re getting. So slightly less than a 5 percent voltage drop took a 15 percent bite out of our intensity.

The thing is, once you start taking parts off of a machine, it’s hard to stop. And for all the changes the brand has brought to the Ram Heavy Duty in the 16 years between my truck and this one, there’s so much that’s the same. The bones beneath that drastically different skin are remarkably similar. I knew how to take the bed off.

Warranty cost reduction is also a major reason why automakers tend to specify long-life bulbs as original equipment. But the filament changes required to make a long-life bulb tend to reduce luminance and beam focus, which means shorter seeing distance and a browner light color. The image shown here is from the R&D journal of Hella, one of the world’s foremost vehicle lighting manufacturers. It’s a comparison of the low beam seeing distance from a headlamp using a long-life bulb (3000 hours) versus that same headlamp using a bulb with higher luminance and better beam focus, but shorter lifespan (500 hours). This should go a fair ways toward answering why picking the longest-life bulb you can find and feeding it as high a voltage as you can would be a no-gain, zero-sum deal.

On the negative side, there are known issues with the operating system running slowly or even crashing. This can remain an issue even after firmware and software updates. Also, it lacks the ability to cast a streaming video to the display, which is odd considering the unit has both video and streaming features. That said, the AVH-2300NEX is a pretty amazing stereo receiver that will take your multimedia automotive experience to the next level.

Finally, good aftermarket speakers sometimes have worse bass than stock, not better, since they may be designed with the expectation that your system has a subwoofer. So, plan on adding another amp and a sub.

Lennard Zinn, our longtime technical writer, joined VeloNews in 1987. He is also a custom frame builder (www.zinncycles.com) and purveyor of non-custom huge bikes (bikeclydesdale.com), a former U.S. national team rider, co-author of “The Haywire Heart,” and author of many bicycle books including “DVD, and “Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance,” as well as “Zinn and the Art of Triathlon Bikes” and “Zinn’s Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists.”He holds a bachelor’s in physics from Colorado College. Readers can send brief technical questions to Ask LZ

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Here’s another example of an artist whose original master tapes were reduced to ashes by the 2008 Universal fire. Originally recorded for A&M Records, they became the property of Universal after a series of mergers and acquisitions. And in a rather hilarious bit of timing, these reissues, meant to help celebrate Soundgarden’s 35th anniversary as a band, come along on the heels of the class action lawsuit that the surviving members joined on to, demanding answers and restitution. Knowing all that offers up more questions about the source of the music on this trio of vinyl repressings. If they weren’t the original master tapes, what are we dealing with here? In the case of Superunknown, the quartet’s 1994 breakthrough, there was either a nice safety copy of the tapes or a high-resolution digital transfer at their disposal. The two albums that bookend it on the other hand weren’t so lucky as both Badmotorfinger and Down On The Upside have a cloudiness to them that only grows as each side of the double LPs move toward the runout groove. With the right amount of volume—and goodness knows, these bludgeoning rock classics should be played loud—that quality can be counteracted a bit. But the magisterial work that Terry Date, Michael Beinhorn and Adam Kasper did to harness Soundgarden’s unique power certainly deserves better than what we’ve been given here.

Add to that the highest destination charge I can remember seeing ($1,495), and the Trackhawk we drove has an as-tested price of $100,215.