Showcasing the Best in the Mobile Enhancement Industry
Well, there it is; the BestCarAudio.com team made it through 2020. In what was easily one of the most memorable years in recent history, we saw the mobile enhancement industry ride a wild roller coaster driven by temporary store closures, product shortages and unprecedented demand from consumers. All the while, our team kept plugging away to educate, inform and occasionally Read more
Joe Cassity, the owner of Tunes-N-Tint in Lakeland, Florida, and his team have been part of the fantastic group of mobile enhancement retailers across the country that are building COVID-19 PPE face shields. Joe learned about the face shield project from Gary Bell and quickly joined the effort to provide frontline workers with these much-needed protective devices. Face Read more
Josh Landau and the team at JML Audio of St. Louis have been producing protective face shields for emergency and frontline medical workers. When the Missouri government started discussing potential stay-at-home executive orders, Josh suspended normal operations at his World Class Vehicle Enhancement Center. He shifted the company resources to producing protective face shields Read more
John Schwartz is the owner of Perfectionist Auto Sound and Security in Anchorage, Alaska, and the CEO of SoundShield. John was one of the first members of the car audio community to hear that Jeremy Katz and Evan Collins had designed a COVID-19 face shield that could be cut on a CNC laser. He jumped on the opportunity to build safety equipment for doctors, nurses and medical Read more
If you’ve been following our series of articles about car stereo shops across North America building COVID-19 face shields, then the name Gary Bell should, excuse the pun, ring a bell. Gary is the owner of Define Concepts in Orange, California. His high-end automotive enhancement shop is equipped with a good-sized CNC router and a CNC laser cutter, and being near Los Angeles, Read more
Based in Chicago, Illinois, Atrend is known industry-wide for its vehicle-specific subwoofer enclosure solutions. As car audio retailers across the country have been forced to close because of the COVID-19 pandemic, sales of audio products dropped by more than 80% overnight. As many are aware, fixed costs like building leases and equipment loan costs don’t stop just because Read more
Carlos Ramirez, the owner of NVS Audio in Roselle, New Jersey, and his staff have been hard at work building face shields for area hospitals and medical centers. With thousands of dollars in materials and more than 200 hours of time donated to the project, they’ve delivered over 2,000 shields so far. Not surprisingly, the team has no plans of slowing down until the COVID-19 Read more
Jeremy Katz and Evan Collins at JK Automotive Designs in Stoneham, Massachusetts, kicked off the COVID-19 face shield project that we talked about in our original article on March 26, 2020. As a quick summary, Jeremy and Evan took a 3D-printed face shield design and reworked it so they could cut the parts on their CNC laser in a fraction of the time it took to print. Jeremy Read more
Based in Naples, Florida, Devine Concepts has been building face shields to protect frontline medical workers from COVID-19 exposure. With the need for car audio upgrades having slowed, Adam Devine, the owner, has repurposed the shop CNC laser to help fight this pandemic by building PPE to keep medical staff safer. How Shield Production Began Jeremy Doran, the operations Read more
Car audio industry veteran Bryan Schmitt is the owner of Mobile Solutions in Tempe, Arizona. His team has been hard at work building face shields to donate to medical centers around the country to help protect frontline staff from COVID-19. Using the tools they’ve invested in to create world-class custom auto sound installations and vehicle interiors, they’ve already churned Read more
Extreme Audio near Richmond has been producing face shields to help protect frontline medical staff from COVID-19. These shields work with face masks, gloves, goggles and other PPE to reduce the chances of nurses, doctors and technicians being infected while treating patients. COVID-19 PPE Protection Saves Lives Mike Bartells, the owner of Extreme Audio in Mechanicsville and Read more
Speed of Sound Technologies, located in Milford, Connecticut, is one of the dozens of car stereo specialty retailers around North America that has joined in on building face shields to help protect frontline health care workers from COVID-19. These shields are designed to work in conjunction with face masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment to help protect Read more
