Sunday 27 March 2016

Improve Your Car Speakers with a Few Simple Changes

If you’re having problems with the sound quality in your car, it might be relatively straightforward to fix. If you still have factory-installed speakers, or if the speakers are blowing, then it’s highly likely that you need to buy new speakers. However, if you have done this, or you know that your speakers are good quality, and you’re still having issues, try our simple remedies outlined below.

1.Cars experience a lot of reverberation. What this means is that sound waves bounce around the car, hitting into each other, and causing mild distortion. While it is mild, it can make a lot of difference to the sound – especially if you're someone with a discerning ear.

To deal with this, you need to install sound dampening materials. Place it on the floor, in foot wells under the carpet, in the door panels, and behind the columns. This can make a huge amount of difference, and it’s relatively cheap.

2.Buy a bass blocker. If you have in car speakers that feature a subwoofer, it could be that low frequency sounds – which should be going to the subwoofer – aren't being fed correctly, and instead are also going to the woofer.



The woofer can’t produce the very low frequency sounds, and it interprets these signals in a distorted manner; it’s sort of the same as screaming as hard as you can, but in an Incredible Hulk way, your voice can’t handle it and cracks. With speakers, the woofers can’t handle it and they crack, which means they break.

A bass blocker prevents the low frequency sounds from reaching the woofer, and therefore stops the damage. Instead, the bass is diverted to the sub woofer, where it belongs, and where the speaker can handle it.

3.Buy a crossover unit and play around with the settings. The cross over is similar in function to a bass blocker, but rather than blocking frequencies, it simply orders them and then feeds them to the correct speakers. For instance, it sorts your music in to low, medium, and high frequencies, and channels them respectively to the sub woofer, woofer, and tweeters. This ensures that each speaker is producing the correct sounds, which then improves sound quality and prevents damaging the speakers.

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Thursday 17 March 2016

Car Stereos: How to Change the Head Unit

This article will teach you how to change a head unit. It is a simple DIY guide. However, if you buy a head unit that requires modifications to your dash, this article is not for you – you need a more advanced guide, and probably need to use a professional installation service. Here, we’re just looking at a simple swap.

1.Choose the correct head unit.

You need to ensure that you buy a compatible head unit. This involves two considerations:

a.If you live in the UK and drive a UK-based car, then you need to ensure that you buy a UK-compatible head unit. The best way to do this is to buy from a car audio UK retailer.

b.You need to buy a head unit that is the same size as the existing unit or the slot in the dashboard if it has a pop out section. In the UK, we measure stereos height in DIN. Ensure that you know which DIN you need. If you want a larger DIN than your car currently allows, then you will need to have the stereo installed by a specialist.

2.Remove the old head unit.

This is relatively easy. You need to disconnect the unit from the battery (under the bonnet), and then use specialist prongs to pull out the head unit (from the centre console). Finally, disconnect all the wires.

3.Connect the new head unit. 

Take the head unit, and connect the wires. You can find online keys that show you which wires go where. It’s straightforward and often colour coded.

4.Connect the unit to the battery.

When you disconnected the batteries in step 2, you now have to reverse the process and reconnect the wires. Remember that you haven’t replaced these wires because they link from the mountings to the battery, and not directly from the stereo – you had to plug them back in when you connected the head unit in step 3.



5.Test the unit. 

You see, car audio UK is very simple and straightforward if all you're doing is changing the head unit. You can easily carry out the work yourself, even if you have zero experience with electronics and gadgets.

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