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Panasonic's CQ-TX5500D tube amp car head

Panasonic CQ-TX5500D

We sincerely hope you know what a tube amp is, because what kind of sick, amazing joke is it that Panasonic not only thought to make a tube-amp head for a car but actually freaking went to market with it? We know, audiophiles, it's not perfectly new. And yes, the CQ-TX5500D will set you back about a grand, but we're hoping you're probably already so transfixed by that lovely glowing vacuum tube front and center you've already forgotten about the fact that you're going to have to settle for MP3s or CDs on this thing, since we haven't really figured out a way to play those sweet extra-thick 12-inch pressings of Highway 61 Revisited while actually driving on the, um, Jersey Turnpike.