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20th May 2022Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: Simplicity in Sound Mercedes-Benz E63 S Wagon

Categories: UncategorizedTags: 2021, AMG E63 S, California, Focal, Illusion Audio, Mercedes-Benz, Milpitas, mObridge, Morel, Mosconi, Orca, PAC, San Francisco, Simplicity in Sound

Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: Simplicity in Sound Mercedes-Benz E63 S Wagon

In the spring of 2018, I was fortunate enough to spend an afternoon hanging out with Bing Xu from Simplicity in Sound in Milpitas, California. Aside from talking shop about car audio stuff, he offered to let me listen to the sound system in his 2014 Mercedes-Benz E63 S wagon. It was amazing! The imaging was detailed, the tonal balance was excellent, and the integration was Read more

24th Jan 2022Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: 2018 Tesla Model X

Categories: Bluetooth, Car Audio, INDUSTRY PROFILES, Installation ProfilesTags: 2018, Amplifiers, AudioControl, Digital Signal Processors, Dynamat, Focal, Model X, Mosconi, Orca Design, Sound Deadening, Speakers, Subwoofers, Tesla

Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: 2018 Tesla Model X

In the fall of 2018, Focal introduced the latest generation of its Utopia speaker solutions at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Wayne Smedile from Paragon Sales & Marketing knew right away that their dealers needed to experience these new flagship drivers to appreciate their clarity and realism. So he ordered a 2018 Tesla Model X the next weekend and put a plan in motion to have Read more

24th Dec 2021Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: Sudbury Car Audio

Categories: Backup Safety, Car Audio, Driver Safety, Lighting, Motorcycle Audio, Retailer ProfilesTags: Amplifiers, ARC Audio, Focal, JL Audio, Morel, North Bay, Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie, Speakers, Subwoofers, Sudbury, Sudbury Car Audio, Timmins, Toronto, Val Caron

Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: Sudbury Car Audio

Conrad Leduc is the owner and head installer at Sudbury Car Audio in Val Caron, Ontario. Conrad opened the 1,200-square-foot shop in 2017 after many years working at other retailers in the area. With its suite of premium products and a commitment to customer satisfaction, the store has garnered a well-deserved reputation in Northern Ontario for delivering premium audio system Read more

12th Aug 2021Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: 2020 Jeep Rubicon Diesel

Categories: Car Audio, INDUSTRY PROFILES, Installation Profiles, Lighting, Truck AccessoriesTags: 2020, Alpine, Body Guard, Delaware, Focal, iDataLink, Jeep, Lewes, Mosconi, Musaic Audiophile Design, Rigid Industries, SoundShield, Stinger, Wrangler Rubicon, XS Power

Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: 2020 Jeep Rubicon Diesel

High-end installers often get calls from clients who live outside of their county or their state or province. Now and then, a client is willing to ship his car or truck partway across the country to have work done. In the case of this 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, the owner consulted with Matt Schaeffer of Musaic Audiophile Design in Lewes, Delaware, using WhatsApp. Why not Read more

10th Aug 2021How the Best Car Audio Installers Get Even Better

Categories: ARTICLES, Car AudioTags: ARC Audio, AudioControl, BLAM, Brax, Compustar, DroneMobile, Focal, Helix, Illusion Audio, JL Audio, Kenwood, Kicker, Mobile Solutions, Mosconi, MSC, Orca Design, Rockford Fosgate, Sony Firstech

How the Best Car Audio Installers Get Even Better

If you’ve read any number of our articles here on BestCarAudio.com, then you know that we always suggest having your car audio upgrades installed by a professional. Unfortunately, finding an installer who has the training to execute your project efficiently is no easy feat. With that said, Mobile Solutions of Tempe, Arizona, has come up with a plan to elevate the skill level of Read more

16th Jun 2021Car Audio Myths: Tweeters Need To Be Installed Near Midrange Speakers

Categories: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Resource LibraryTags: Alpine, Digital Signal Processors, Focal, Speakers, Tweeters

Car Audio Myths: Tweeters Need To Be Installed Near Midrange Speakers

Decades ago, car audio professionals were adamant about the statement that tweeters needed to be installed right beside the midrange speakers in your car audio system. Is this accurate? The answer is that it depends on a few variables. Keeping them close can’t hurt, but it might come at the expense of improving the soundstage location in your audio system. Why Did Tweeters Read more

5th May 2021Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: 2003 Toyota MR2 Spyder

Categories: Car Audio, INDUSTRY PROFILES, Installation Profiles, Smartphone IntegrationTags: 2003, Alberta, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, Audio Control, Focal, JL Audio, Kenwood, Red Deer, SoundShield, Toyota MR2

Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: 2003 Toyota MR2 Spyder

The owner of this somewhat rare 2003 Toyota MR2 Spyder contacted the team at Vibe Car Audio in Red Deer, Alberta, to inquire about upgrading the audio system. After talking with the client about her listening preferences, they inspected the vehicle to determine the best solution to meet her goal. Their proposal mixed a technology upgrade in the form of a new Kenwood 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

23rd Aug 2019The 2020 Car Audio Season Starts at KnowledgeFest Dallas – Part Two

Categories: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Lighting, Marine Audio, Radar Detectors, Remote Starter, Satellite Radio, Truck Accessories, Vehicle SecurityTags: 2020, AAMP Global, Audiomobile, Author Alarms, Corvette, DD Audio, Escort, Eton, F-150, Ferrari, Focal, Ford, Full Throttle, GT40, Harley-Davidson, Heise, iDataLink, Jeep, JVC, MECP, Memphis Car Audio, Metra Electronics, Morel, Mosconi, Orca, RaceSport, SQL Audio, VAIS Technology, Volkswagen

The 2020 Car Audio Season Starts at KnowledgeFest Dallas – Part Two

We continue coverage of the KnowledgeFest event from Dallas, Texas where the best retailers and vendors get together to improve the mobile enhancement industry.  Click HERE to see part 1 of this Read more

26th Mar 2019Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: Apicella Auto Sound

Categories: Car Audio, INDUSTRY PROFILES, Retailer ProfilesTags: Audible Physics, Audio Development, Audiofrog, Blackhole, Brax, Focal, Gladen, Helix, IASCA, Illusion Audio, Match, MECA, Mosconi, Radios, Speakers

Mobile Enhancement Industry Profile: Apicella Auto Sound

Located in Stony Point, New York, Apicella Auto Sound isn’t your typical car stereo shop and has a unique backstory. Owner Nick Apicella told us that he had never really done the same job for more than six months at a time. In most cases, he spent his winters snowboarding or working somewhere and wishing he could do things his way. In the spring of 2017, as winter was coming to Read more

20th May 2018Top 100 Most Influential Car Audio Products of All Time

Categories: ARTICLES, Bluetooth, Car Audio, Integration, Marine Audio, Mobile Video, Navigation, Resource Library, Smartphone IntegrationTags: a/d/s, ADS, Alpine, Amplifiers, ARC Audio, Audiobahn, AudioControl, Audiofrog, Audison, Autosound 2000, Blade Technologies, Butler, Cerwin-Vega, Clarion, Coustic, D'Amore Engineering, Dynamat, Earthquake, Empeg, Focal, Galvin Manufacturing, Image Dynamics, JBL, Jensen, JL Audio, KEF, Kenwood, Kicker, Linear Power, MB Quart, Milbert, MMATS, mObridge, Motorola, Muntz, Nav-TV, Orion, PAC Audio, Panasonic, Phoenix Gold, Pioneer, PPI, Radios, Rockford Fosgate, SAS Bazooka, Sony, Speakers, Subwoofers, US Amps, USD Audio, Wayne Harris Enterprises, Xtant, Zapco

Top 100 Most Influential Car Audio Products of All Time

Enthusiasts have been trying to find ways to bring their music into their cars for more than 100 years. What started with a phonograph in the back seat or strapped to the fender of a horseless carriage has evolved to Internet-connected computers with voice recognition systems that allow us to communicate with friends and play source music from the ever-miraculous cloud. In Read more

25th Apr 2018Bang for Your Buck: Car Audio Subwoofer System Options

Categories: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Resource LibraryTags: Amplifiers, ARC Audio, Audiomobile, Focal, Illusion Audio, JL Audio, Kicker, Rockford Fosgate, Speakers, Subwoofers

Bang for Your Buck: Car Audio Subwoofer System Options

No single upgrade to an audio system offers a larger improvement in sound quality than the addition of a car audio subwoofer. Adding a subwoofer not only improves the low-frequency performance of your sound system, it can also improve the clarity of the entire system and enhance the volume level capabilities of the smaller speakers in your car. In this issue of Bang for Your Read more

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