Article: A CRESCENDO OF SOUNDS.(Living Today)

Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer

Phil Collins sings - booms - "This Must Be Love" and I feel my ears about to hemorrhage.

With the twist of a dial, Jim Crispino has turned his '86 Mustang GT into a sonic hell. The car quakes at 123 decibels. I don't hear the music so much as suffer it.

Crispino eases the volume to a hushed 110 decibels - in the jackhammer-subway-thunderstorm range - so we can talk about noise.

"I like to play it at a good clip, but not so it kills you," said the general manager of Auto Sound Plus in Latham.

Crispino, 25, spent $4,000 to install a Sony CD player and 13 Rockford-Fosgate speakers and amps in his ...

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