The Best Mobile Enhancement Retailers
Santa Fe is a small American city, but Hyundai has borrowed the name for its big SUV (sister company Kia has gone a similar route with its large Telluride SUV). For 2019, Hyundai has dropped the Santa Fe Sport (but added the very cool small Kona) and has added the Santa Fe XL. How about people who typically carry items in the cargo hold but not necessarily passengers? Then the Read more
The next topic in our look at car audio amplifier specifications is input sensitivity. This specification is easy to understand but is important to choose an amp that will work with the system your local car stereo shop has designed. In the simplest of terms, the sensitivity specification determines how much voltage is required on the input of the amplifier for it to produce Read more
The BestCarAudio.com editorial team recently talked to none other than Ricardo Rangel, head of the famous Mexico City-based Monster by Rangel, about the 2018 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 project they recently completed. Ricardo told us that this is the sixth build they have done for this client in the past three years and with each project, the client’s interest in Read more
We’ve touched on the topic of signal-to-noise ratio in car audio amplifiers before. This specification is one of the most important in quantifying the quality of the amplifier you are going to choose for your audio system. While the power ratings are the only way we’ll know how loudly an amp can play, the noise specs give us a look at the design philosophy of the amp. Quite Read more
Understanding how to recreate music in our vehicles is a complicated science. Balancing speaker sizes and locations with the goal of recreating what the recording engineer heard in the mastering studio or, at the very least, making your system enjoyable isn’t always easy. We want to take a look at the physics behind sound and explain a few fundamentals of how sound works to Read more
The car audio industry has changed a lot since I first got into it while in high school. A mere (cough) 30 years ago, CD players were just becoming popular, most aftermarket car radios were pull-out designs and the public didn’t have access to the Internet. OK, that’s a small list of the differences between now and then, but for those of us who have been in the industry for Read more
In our first Mobile Electronics Industry profile, we contacted Dave Evans, the owner of Adrenaline Autosound in Clayton, North Carolina, to talk about how he got into the industry, what drives him and where he thinks our industry is headed. Working with his head technician Brandon Douglas, the pair has run Adrenaline Autosound since 2006 and serve the Raleigh area with audio Read more
As the Head Writer at 1sixty8 media and the Editor-in-Chief here at BestCarAudio.com, I manage to write between 20,000 and 25,000 words a week on various aspects of the mobile electronics industry and aftermarket accessories. You’d think that given that level of immersion in the industry, it would be hard for me to think about anything other than aftermarket accessories and Read more
If you have been around the mobile electronics industry as long as I have, then you have seen thousands of installations executed in dozens of ways. There’s no doubt that an installation that looks amazing deserves attention and recognition. The question remains, how does a consumer go about balancing his budget to yield a level of performance that ensures the high-end gear Read more
