Wednesday, 20 May 2015

How To Optimise Car Sound Quality

If you lead a hectic home life your care will be the one place to listen to your favourite music in peace.  Unfortunately, very often sound quality is lacking.  If you are a music lover it stands to reason that you want to choose from the best in car stereos that are currently around.

How can you improve sound quality without replacing your head unit?  In most new cars this component of your music system is of good quality nowadays.  What manufacturers don’t seem to have thought about is to fit adequate speakers to accompany them.



Speakers are the easiest part of your equipment to change if you want to improve sound.  The head unit is often integrated in the dashboard and changing that may spoil the overall look of the interior.

It is surprising that just by changing the speakers and perhaps fitting better amps you will transform the tone of music.  You will be able to distinguish sounds that you have never heard before in your trusted music collection.

If you have ever looked where the speakers are in your car you will find that they are housed in the doors of your car.  This is really not the best place to have them.  Doors vibrate and most of the road noise will emanate from here.

If you are intent on improving sound, you may want to think about sound proofing them in order to shut out this outside noise.  There are soundproofing materials especially for this.  You will be able to seek advice from your provider of new sound equipment.  Advice is available both online as well as in your local audio store.

As already mentioned above if you should have a separate amplifier fitted with your stereo unit, this will improve sound quality even further.

There are other things to do to improve sound.  You will be able to get a good idea if you research your options before you buy anything extra for your sound equipment.

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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Why You Should Have Bluetooth In Your Car

You will be able to do so much more with your in car music system if you should have a look at Bluetooth car kits.  These will be especially useful to you if you do much mileage or if you drive for a living.

You will be able to operate your mobile without taking your hands off the steering wheel and you are able to stream music files and, furthermore, it will allow you to listen to internet radio.  You will also be able to give commands by the speak trigger facility.

This system will work best if it is stereo specific as adaptors have more limited features.  Many new cars are now fitted with this system.  If yours isn’t then you may have to think about buying a new head unit.

If you are researching the possibility of installation, you need to make sure that what you are going to buy gives you all the features you need.  It is no use having Bluetooth car kits fitted if the feature you have really set your heart on is not there.

It is possible to have a system wired into your old stereo unit if you have an older car.  If your budget is tight this may be the best option for you.  It will allow you to phone hands free whilst you are driving and it will turn down your stereo when a call comes in.  As already said above, you will benefit from basic facilities this way.

If you go down this route you may have to buy a special wiring harness.

There is a word of caution about Bluetooth though.  Because this system works via radio waves it is possible for hackers to get into your system. Passwords are known to have been stolen this way.  Hackers can interact with a passing network too.

It is of the essence, therefore, to make passwords as secure as possible and new head units may have advanced security features to stop this from happening.

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