Monday, 19 May 2014

GET THE BEST CAR AUDIO SOUNDS

With iPods and iPhones able to store unlimited music it is hardly surprising to learn that nearly half a billion dollars is spent around the world each year just on the interface kits to allow these and other mobile devices to be heard.

Eventually every car manufacturer will wake up to the fact that Satnav as well as interface systems and UBS ports for all mobile devices must be fitted as standard. A recent survey revealed that people looking to change their existing car considered a plug in mobile device interface played an important part in their decision making.

Until it is standard companies like In Car Music in Leytonstone, London will continue to do a thriving online trade in interface kits as well as anything else to do with car stereo fitting kits, audio upgrades, speakers, DVD, Satnav, amplifiers, reversing warning systems and screen displays as well as any other equipment that helps make the car a mobile office come studio.



car stereo fitting kits
car stereo fitting kits


The car is an ideal environment for good sound especially if it has been fully dampened. This procedure is highly recommended if you are one of a growing breed known as an audiophile. Audiophiles are the ones driving those cars that you often hear before you see. They are usually a few streets away and when they eventually pass you it feels like you could be in the presence of a minor earthquake.

To be fair to car manufacturers their cars generally have pretty good sound systems and in some cases it is actually difficult to improve on them. But this is only the case for the more expensive cars; the sort that you need to be seriously rich to even considers buying.

In some of the very high end market there is an astonishing array of up to twenty speakers fitted and the whole system may have cost many thousands of pounds.

If you spend a great amount on a new audio system it becomes necessary to consider security. If you don’t look out the audio system could be worth more than the car.




BEST SURROUND SOUND

The factory installed audio systems in modern cars are generally very good although for the real aficionados they can always be improved upon, except in the most luxurious cars where it would be hard to improve on the one fitted.

Some of these top of the range cars have over two thousand watt systems with twenty speakers built in and the sound is probably better than anything we lesser mortals could achieve at home given a few thousand pounds to spend on attempting it.

There are stores up and down the country like the London one of In Car Music that have a thriving business selling everything to do with car entertainment. The busiest part of the business at the moment is the selling of interface kits for iPod and iPhones as well as USB ports, Bluetooth and rear seat LED displays.

car speakers
car speakers


Perhaps because the car can be an excellent surround sound system it is not too surprising that some younger people can become almost obsessed with trying to achieve the perfect sound.

The results can usually be heard before they are seen by the rest of us. In some cases it seems that the whole of the back half of the car is stuffed with car speakers big and small.

These are usually a mix of base, woofers and tweeters with some huge amplifier sitting beneath the lot.
On the internet you can see photos of the boots of cars where the different speakers are arranged and locked together to create almost a new art form.  Perhaps a new word should be found for this audio sculpturing.

When so much is spent on the speakers you can bet that a similarly large amount of cash has been spent on the head unit and amplifier. What you will not easily see is the extra dampening that has been used to line the whole of the inside of the car.

This is to create near perfect acoustics as this is essential to compliment the increase in quality systems.

  

  

BETTER SOUNDS IN THE CAR

Sound systems in cars are often better than the ones at home and some people lucky enough to be able to buy a brand new luxury limousine enjoy nineteen and twenty speaker systems running off a top of the range amplifier.

I am told the sound in some luxury cars is quite awesome although I have not had the pleasure of listening myself.

Once you get into the league of spending quarter of a million pounds on a luxury new motor the manufacturer having put in ten thousand pounds worth of audio is not going to complete the car without making sure it has excellent dampening.


car audio
car audio


The simple act of dampening a car creates near perfect acoustics just like a modern symphony hall. The object is to prevent any street or engine sounds from being heard inside the car and the sound system crystal clear as a consequence. 

If you are old enough you will remember the days when a car in the radio was considered a luxury! Only the best makes fitted them as standard and even then they were of poor quality with just one mono speaker fitted in the dash.

Upgrading the car audio in your old car today can easily be done as long as you take the precaution of checking dimensions. In other words, if you are upgrading the head unit it is essential to have a new one exactly the same size as the one currently fitted.

The same applies to speakers in doors or parcel shelf. If they are six inch then the new ones must also be that size to fit in the recess unless you are turning the car into a mobile jukebox with giant new woofers and tweeters with extra amplifier all filling the boot.

Everything to do with in car entertainment, or ICE for short, can be sourced and bought online at the In Car Music store where it is also possible to buy many other accessories including car security and reversing systems.

To build a better car audio http://www.incarmusic.co.uk/

   

BLAST OUT THE MUSIC

When you pass your driving test as an eighteen year old and get your first old banger it takes a while before that feeling of freedom wears off and the pleasure of driving for the sake of it is one full of memories that stays with you for the rest of your life.

Being able to cruise along with your favourite music blasting out loud on the car stereo system is a whole lot better feeling than sitting at home; it even sounds better!

Car stereos with CD player are fitted as standard in virtually all makes and model of new car but it never used to be the case decades ago. Before the invention of the CD player there was the mini-cassette and before that there was the VHS or Betamax tape. The tapes were the size of a thick paperback book and the glove compartment could only store half a dozen at most.

Car stereos
Car stereos


Today with iPod and iPhone interface kits the amount of music you can listen to is almost limitless.

The car is a great environment for entertainment of all kinds particularly when still a teenager and enjoying any excuse for having to drive somewhere. The quality of the sound system is only limited by your pocket.

On the other hand, you do not have to spend a fortune to upgrade the car stereo system in your car as you will discover when you look at a site online like the one at In Car Music.

Here you will be able to buy interface kits, new speakers, amplifiers, Bluetooth, DVD/USB, add-on navigation systems and security products to name just a few extras. It is possible to turn your car into a state of the art audio/visual theatre to make even the longest trips pass quickly.

Globally the sales of products that are designed simply to facilitate the addition of portable devices runs at something like half a billion dollars a year although doubtlessly this figure will peak soon before dropping as car manufacturers fit interfaces as standard.

For everything to do with car stereos http://www.incarmusic.co.uk/