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28th Feb 2025Why Proper Grounding Is Crucial for Your Car Audio Amplifiers

Categories: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Resource LibraryTags: Alternators, Amplifiers, Balanced Inputs, Batteries, Differential Inputs, Ground, Grounding, Power Cables, Signal Processors, Speakers, Subwoofers

Why Proper Grounding Is Crucial for Your Car Audio Amplifiers

When upgrading their car audio system, most enthusiasts focus on selecting the right head units, signal processors, amplifiers, speakers, and subwoofers. While these selections are crucial to the new audio system's performance, how those products are integrated into the vehicle, configured and calibrated, is even more important. One critical factor that often gets overlooked is Read more

23rd Jun 2023Testing Amplifier RCA Input Circuitry – Revisited

Categories: ARTICLES, Car AudioTags: Amplifiers, ARC Audio, Audison, Bridge Tied Load, Differential Inputs, Hertz, RCA Interconnect Cables, Rockford Fosgate, Sony

Testing Amplifier RCA Input Circuitry – Revisited

We recently published an article that explains how differential inputs on car audio amplifiers and signal processors work. Just after that was published, we were talking with Brad Ott, executive vice president of operations at ARC Audio. He has an extensive background in circuit design and was the company’s product development manager for many years. Brad offered to send us Read more

14th Jun 2023How To Test Car Audio Components for Differential Inputs

Categories: ARTICLES, Car AudioTags: Amplifiers, Balanced Inputs, Differential Inputs, Digital Signal Processors, Radios, RCA Interconnect Cables, Single-Ended Inputs, XLR

How To Test Car Audio Components for Differential Inputs

If you were into car audio in the ’80s or ’90s, you undoubtedly heard about people spending countless hours hunting down engine noise or alternator whine issues with amplified systems. Thankfully, modern high-quality car audio amplifiers include circuitry on the RCA input jacks that nearly eliminates the chance of ground loops and prevents the audio system from producing Read more

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