It’s amazing - car audio packages have become a
April 19th, 2008
It’s amazing - car audio packages have become a technology battleground in the car market. They are now fulfilled with CD/MP3, DVD players, and mini-discs. There’s a jumbo range of car audio kits that range in price from $99 up to $8000 USD, depending on quality.
Different boxes and implementations of car stereo speakers are designed to reproduce various frequencies. If you’re going to be playing your system continuously, you should focus on the maximum power RMS. If you want more sound that your speaker could capture and reproduce, you should use car stereo speakers with higher and wider the frequency response.
In case you want to get the full range of sound from your car stereo speakers, you must have speakers that covers all frequency ranges. Your deck should have the capacity to power your component speakers if you do not have speakers with very high performance. In case you connect amplifier to speakers, there is need for a crossover that distributes the right frequencies to their necessary speakers. The purpose of a tweeter is to pick up and reproduce only the high-pitched treble frequencies and a subwoofer vice versa.
Car stereo speakers should be located advisedly. If you scatter speakers all around the car your car sound quality would be very poor, since you would be producing the same sound at different places. If you have a system with good sound manner, the sound should seem to come from different voices, not from two speakers.
Also when choosing loudspeakers, be realistic. If you do not want to modify your existing speaker holes, shop for speakers that will fit in the current space available. Keep in mind depth considerations, especially in doors where speakers may interfere with windows rolling down, dashes where speakers may be limited by ducts for heat and air, and rear decks where depth is limited by torsion bars that run underneath the rear deck.
When shopping for subwoofers don’t focus trying to stuff your car with subwoofers. Consider how much room you have and how much of it you are willing to sacrifice to achieve the low end. When choosing audio system you should determine it’s size as well as enclosure type for the woofers.
Recently, car audio packages have become an extremely competitive market. There are many different sets of car stereo speakers that you can install, depending on how you use your system. Your deck can handle all but the highest-end speakers, but other components may require more power. Be careful to distribute your speakers around the car so that they don’t interfere with each other. Make certain that your speakers don’t get in the way of other components of your car. Many car audio kits are out there for every budget and make of car.