President\’s Message
November 2, 2002
Boston Audio Society
November 2, 2002
President’s Message
Under the title “Car-audio training covers installation, all the basses,” the Boston Globe profiles the Ritop School for Mobile Electronics in Boston. Recently the anti-noise group Noise Free America put the Mass Dept. of Education on its “Noisy Dozen” list for licensing a “boom car academy,” saying that boom cars are destroying many neighborhoods across the country: “They are making people sick and depressed.” Joe Boston, Ritop’s director, said the school turns out professionals who can install stereos, alarms, monitors and other technology in cars. He pointed out that Noise Free America considers movie trailers to be a form of noise. (The group’s Web site describes those film previews as “thunderous.”) “It’s not about noise,” said Boston. “We just don’t go out and ‘boom, boom, boom’ all the time.”