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29th Mar 2023Understanding Speaker Quality: Old School Premium Speaker

Categories: ARTICLES, Car AudioTags: Amplifiers, BassBox Pro 6, Clio Pocket, MB Quart, Speakers, Thiele/Small Parameters, Woofers

Understanding Speaker Quality: Old School Premium Speaker

We’re now into our fourth speaker in our series about understanding speaker quality. For this article, we will analyze the performance of an old-school premium speaker, the MB Quart PWE-160. If you were into car audio in the ’80s and ’90s, then the MB Quart brand was a name you’d know well. This brand was famous for its performance in car audio competitions. So let’s see how Read more

20th Feb 2023Understanding Speaker Quality: An Old MTX Blue Thunder Woofer

Categories: ARTICLES, Car AudioTags: 1991, 323, Audax, BassBox Pro, Mazda, MTX, Speakers, Subwoofers, Thiele/Small Parameters

Understanding Speaker Quality: An Old MTX Blue Thunder Woofer

I purchased a pair of MTX 6.5-inch woofers around 1992 or 1993, and they were installed in my 1991 Mazda 323 hatchback as midbass and rear-fill drivers. Later, they migrated to a set of “home speakers” with an Audax tweeter, though I don’t think I spent much time listening to them after I finished building them. Unfortunately, those speaker enclosures were thrown out after they Read more

3rd Feb 2023Understanding Speaker Quality: Another Inexpensive Aftermarket Speaker

Categories: ARTICLES, Car AudioTags: Amplifiers, Clio Pocket, Harmonic Distortion, Skar Audio, Speakers

Understanding Speaker Quality: Another Inexpensive Aftermarket Speaker

We’re on to our third article in our series of quantifying speakers’ performance in terms of their application and quality. We started with a factory Honda speaker, then looked at what an inexpensive aftermarket speaker offered. For this third article, we’ll look at another inexpensive aftermarket speaker, the Skar Audio FSX65-4. Skar Audio FSX65-4 Let me start by saying that Read more

24th Aug 2022Understanding Speaker Quality: Inexpensive Replacement Speakers

Categories: ARTICLES, Car AudioTags: Civic, Honda, Speaker Distortion, Speaker Quality, Speakers

Understanding Speaker Quality: Inexpensive Replacement Speakers

A while back, we took a close look at the harmonic distortion performance of a 6.5-inch door speaker from a Honda Civic. We measured the Theile/Small parameters and the driver’s impedance curve. Next, we looked at how much distortion the speaker created at different drive levels. If you haven’t read that article, it’s a bit of a prerequisite for this one. You can find it here: Read more

29th Jun 2022Understanding Speaker Quality: OEM Speakers

Categories: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Resource LibraryTags: BassBox Pro, Civic, Clio Pocket, Honda, Speakers

Understanding Speaker Quality: OEM Speakers

Up to this point, we’ve explained the difference in performance between entry level, poorly designed and premium car audio amplifiers. We hope you’ve found this informative, and now it’s time we took a close look at car audio speakers. No car audio component is more crucial than speakers for reproducing music with accuracy and clarity. This series of articles will analyze Read more

30th Jun 2020Speaker Q and How it Affects Sound Quality

Categories: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Resource LibraryTags: Audiofrog, Audison, Focal, Morel, Speakers, Thiele/Small Parameters

Speaker Q and How it Affects Sound Quality

When it comes to correlating how the parameters of a speaker translate into music reproduction, well, the details are often somewhat sparse. One speaker characteristic that’s often overlooked when searching for new subwoofers or woofers is Q. This unitless number is a key component in describing how the suspension and motor work to control and damp cone oscillation at its Read more

25th Jun 2020Powersports Speaker Upgrades Improve Sound Quality and Quantity

Categories: ARTICLES, Marine Audio, Motorcycle Audio, Resource LibraryTags: Can-Am, Honda, JL Audio, Kawasaki, MB Quart, MTX, Polaris, Powersports, Rockford Fosgate, Side-By-Side, Soundbars, Speaker Pods, Speakers, Textron, UTV, UV Protection, Yamaha

Powersports Speaker Upgrades Improve Sound Quality and Quantity

Powersports speaker upgrades for UTVs and side-by-sides are all the rage these days. Car audio manufacturers offer pods, soundbars and enclosures to let your local specialty mobile enhancement retailer add or enhance the sound system on your Polaris, Can-Am, Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki or Textron vehicle. Let’s look at some of the options available to make your time on the trails Read more

12th Jun 2020Speaker Power Ratings Don’t Define Their Quality

Categories: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Resource LibraryTags: Amplifiers, Digital Signal Processors, Sound Deadener, Sound Deadening, Speakers, Subwoofers

Speaker Power Ratings Don’t Define Their Quality

The number of times a consumer has asked for a set of speakers based on power ratings is incomprehensibly huge. They ask for 300-watt 6x9’s or a 1,000-watt subwoofer without understanding how the power ratings are created. Let’s quickly review what it takes to make a speaker that can handle a lot of power and explain why that may have nothing to do with sound quality and Read more

6th Sep 2023Premium Car Audio Quality Control Processes

Categories: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Marine AudioTags: Amplifiers, ARC Audio, Audio Precision, Digital Signal Processors, Klippel, Rockford Fosgate, Speakers

Premium Car Audio Quality Control Processes

Let’s take a look at amplifier, speaker and subwoofer quality. This time, it won’t be a series of lab measurements that evaluate distortion, frequency response or power. It won’t even include listening evaluations or comments on shiny products. Many years ago, Rockford Fosgate ran a magazine advertisement showing a picture of a Punch 75 HD amplifier and Bruce. Bruce is Read more

5th Sep 2023Understanding Subwoofer Quality – Setting the Stage

Categories: ARTICLES, Car AudioTags: Amplifiers, Klippel, Rockford Fosgate, Speakers, Subwoofer Enclosures, Subwoofers, Thiele/Small Parameters

Understanding Subwoofer Quality – Setting the Stage

Last year, we published a series of articles that compared several 6.5-inch woofers. Those articles were intended to show the linearity and distortion differences between entry-level products and those with features that improve performance and sound quality. The results were exactly as we expected: The better drivers played louder with less distortion. We figured it was about Read more

1st Aug 2023My Car Stereo System Sounds Worse After a Speaker Upgrade. Why?

Categories: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Resource LibraryTags: Amplifiers, Digital Signal Processors, Radios, Sony, Speakers

My Car Stereo System Sounds Worse After a Speaker Upgrade. Why?

Before about 2000, upgrading a factory-installed car audio system was pretty easy. You could start with a new set of speakers and a subwoofer and have something quite enjoyable. In the last few decades, automakers, or more specifically, the companies that supply their audio system components, have learned how to maximize the performance of the inexpensive speakers they use. Read more

14th Jul 2023Behind the Scenes with the Pinnacle Autosound Audi Q3 – Speakers

Categories: ARTICLES, Car AudioTags: Audi, Florida, JL Audio, Lake City, Morel, Pinnacle Autosound, Q3, Speakers

Behind the Scenes with the Pinnacle Autosound Audi Q3 – Speakers

If you haven’t noticed by now, the editorial team at BestCarAudio.com has a penchant for being, well, what we’d call geeky. We love car audio systems that sound great. We also love audio system upgrades that look like they are a part of the vehicle design. The system for this Audi Q3, created by Pinnacle Autosound in Lake City, Florida, includes those two crucial elements but Read more

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