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 car. For the effort he won Best of Show in last year's Crank-It-Up Contest at his store. His system was clocked at a bone-marrow-conducting 129 decibels.
About three miles away, in his office in the old friary on the Siena College campus, the Rev. Dennis Tamburello - a 15-year member of the …
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