Every professional audio system installation, be it for a church, dance club, home theater or your car, requires DSP calibration. Your smartphone, laptop and smart speaker use digital signal processors to optimize the sound you hear from the tiny speakers. Digital signal processors aren’t magic, and they aren’t complicated. They offer a reliable and straightforward […]
How Cooling Features Improve Car Audio Subwoofer Performance
Not long ago, we looked at how an increase in subwoofer voice coil temperature reduced the power delivered from your amplifier. With component temperatures easily exceeding the boiling point of water, the impedance of the voice coil can increase by more than 50%. Manufacturers that understand this go to great lengths to include technologies to […]
A Quick Look at Bluetooth A2DP Sound Quality in a Car Audio System
We can’t count the number of times we’ve heard people say that listening to music over Bluetooth A2DP doesn’t sound as good as if you played a WAV file directly from a USB memory stick. So we fired up the Sony XAV-AX7000 multimedia receiver that we reviewed in late 2020 and made a series of […]
Let’s Talk About Bridging Multi-Channel Car Audio Amplifiers on Subs
A comment came up the other day that it was unwise to use all channels of a four-channel amplifier to power a pair of subwoofers. Not only is this incorrect, but this practice opens up several unique system designs and installation possibilities, especially where high-power requirements are necessary. Let’s dive in! Four-Channel Amplifiers Are Amazing! […]
Radio and Backup Camera Upgrade for Thomasville 2017 Jeep Compass
A client from Thomasville came to Precision with a 2017 Jeep Compass, looking to upgrade the factory radio to a more up-to-date unit with built-in Apple CarPlay and a rear-view camera. This Jeep Compass happened to be a base model, so it was not equipped with a backup camera or Bluetooth capabilities. We took our […]
