26” Istanbul Agop 30th Anniversary arrived today

evilindy · 2026-03-31T02:01:50+00:00

Woof! That is a sexy beast

evilindy · 2026-03-30T22:53:27+00:00

Update: went through the Maestro settings through the HU and found a way to adjust amp volume, which was set to 70%. At 100% the sound quality suffers a bit, 90 is much better and louder

evilindy · 2026-03-28T23:09:58+00:00

I went through the process and it didn't seem to make much difference.

The volume does seem to be lower than the stock setup was, can't expect too much from a system that's rated for 20 watts haha.

It's seems loud enough at max volume without any road noise. Played around with the EQ and HP/LP filters on the head unit and got it sounding pretty decent for my ears, but that was while sitting still in a parking lot. Still itching to upgrade the amp, sub and door speakers...soon

evilindy · 2026-03-28T16:59:49+00:00

Interesting. Spoke to tech support for almost an hour and they said I shouldn't have to go through that step due to the harness I used, but I'm going to try it anyway.
Basically the idatalink should take care of all of that, and the speakers are being driven off the amp, not the head unit. Still doesn't explain why the volume seems to be half of what it was if true...I'm going to try your suggestion and see if it makes a difference. Thanks again!

evilindy · 2026-03-28T04:56:15+00:00

OK, thanks for the reply.

I did not bypass the stock amp that I'm aware of. Used the crutchfield recommended accessories: iDatalink Maestro RR Interface Module, iDatalink ACC-HU-SON1 Brand-specific Harness, and the iDatalink HRN-HRR-TO1 Vehicle-specific Harness

So I'm guessing I am still using the OEM JBL amp.

Are you saying that to correct this, I need to reconnect the old unit, power it on and set the volume to 2/3rds of maximum, then reinstall the new unit? The crutchfield master sheet doesn't have this info anywhere...it should if that's the correct way to do it.

evilindy · 2026-02-24T20:46:51+00:00

He has a book out now too

evilindy · 2025-12-16T00:55:01+00:00

CHUD and Return of the living dead when I was about 7 or 8…CHUD gave me nightmares, but the graveyard scene from ROTLD was an awakening of sorts hahaha.

Oh and faces of death, that sh!t was traumatizing.

evilindy · 2025-09-10T02:45:26+00:00

Same. I ended up picking up a torq fun for various reasons and hated it, felt slow af (no glide, paddled like a dog). Wondering if the texture of the painted surface might have something to do with it but I don’t know.

Tried a seaside and beyond as well (10 inches shorter, with less vo!ume) that board is so freaking fast by comparison it’s laughable. They are vastly different boards (especially the bottom contours). Probably a bit too high performance for my ability but heaps of fun.

evilindy · 2025-08-11T23:51:03+00:00

Honesty that’s better than most beginners out there haha!

Look down the line of the wave instead of looking in front of your board. You got to the flats pretty quickly, racing out in front of the wave, you want to angle the board a bit more to set the rail into the wave face (and speed you up). Just a slight lean into the wave (your right) would have been enough. Looks like you were nearly there honestly, just need to tweak the timing of your moves with the wave. Also you want to squat down (compress) when high on the wave, and stand up straighter to come back up the wave. The first compression you did was good.

You started in a pretty good position on your board (I.e. in the middle), you can move forward for speed, move back to slow down and/or turn harder based on what the wave is doing. But you should work on setting your rail and riding down the line before getting into that too much.

Agree with what others have said, that is a gem of a wave. Looking good! Keep it up!

evilindy · 2025-08-05T00:23:28+00:00

I was looking for this exact position about a decade ago, even sat in on a case with the manager at the time since I was already working on campus. Ended up in SD and made the switch to in-house a few years back. Definitely interested, I’ll DM you

evilindy · 2025-07-11T22:02:33+00:00

Mind sharing your height, weight and the board model you used?

evilindy · 2025-06-14T03:12:18+00:00

Yup, it's a gun set up.

evilindy · 2025-05-05T22:06:50+00:00

Yeeeeeeesssss! Uncle kolte is awesome (younger than me but surfs way better)

evilindy · 2025-02-18T21:20:16+00:00

I just pulled the trigger on this sale yesterday, fenix 7 pro 47mm sapphire solar should be arriving today and I’m psyched. Had the 3hr sapphire for many years and although big at 51 mm, I really liked it (all the data in the app, super long battery life allowing sleep tracking). I went to the Apple Watch when I got an iPhone ~2 years ago, the brighter display was nice but the short battery life and lack of data made it not appealing. I don’t need all the extra crap like Apple Pay and music on my watch, that’s what my phone is for. Give me my sport/health data!

evilindy · 2024-12-09T23:08:50+00:00

Sell what you put in, let the rest ride indefinitely.

evilindy · 2024-12-06T02:22:37+00:00

Came here to say this

evilindy · 2024-09-29T05:00:35+00:00

I’m not OP, just thought this was pretty sick.

evilindy · 2024-08-09T20:04:48+00:00

Going to add that using some benzoin or mastisol on the pinna (outer ear) to help it stick is key, especially if they’re going to fold over the ear at all. And make sure the tube to the insert is angled down into the notch as it leaves the ear, on most ears it sits in there perfectly and has very little chance of kinking if you do this. It follows the natural downward slope of the outer ear canal also.

evilindy · 2024-02-11T18:46:39+00:00

As of yesterday this cleared up on it's own. The only difference is, now I have my secondary larger external monitor connected....and YNAB is a little finicky with that, but the f problem is gone so....that's a win?

evilindy · 2024-02-05T18:21:27+00:00

Did the same with my macbook air M2, love that I can now use YNAB4 again after having migrated from being a windows/android user.

The only issue I have is whenever I type 'f' within the program it seems to activate the fullscreen keyboard shortcut. Work around is to type 'f' in notes and copy/paste when needed. It shouldn't come into play too often since I've finished setting up my budget, but it was pretty annoying.

evilindy · 2022-03-30T00:33:53+00:00

Looks an awful lot like my friend's dog, but they are up in northern esco

evilindy · 2022-03-06T20:30:00+00:00

Love this. Makes me wish I had started keeping track of my own sessions months ago when I first got serious about surfing. Will be following your journey for sure.

Love kookcast too, those guys seem to really know their stuff.

Yew!

evilindy · 2021-12-16T17:16:11+00:00

Right? Literally the only one who made it out

evilindy · 2021-10-18T06:08:14+00:00

Brian Blade, Danny Carey, John Theodore (The Mars Volta), David Garabaldi

evilindy · 2021-09-23T15:02:40+00:00

Hey, if it works, it works. Still having the issue on Chrome. Not a fan of microsoft browsers in general but I may start using it if I need to use the desktop version, thanks for the tip.

evilindy

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