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A Car Stereo System Is A Great Gift Idea For Music Lovers
Posted on November 23, 2011 | Car Stereo.
Sometimes something happens to give you a strong feeling of exhilaration and your spirit lifts up to a higher level than where it normally is. For some it’s that winning goal in a football match, or being the first to the tape in a race. For me that’s when one of my favourite tracks starts playing and everything starts to feel better, no matter what my problems.
Music from my youth, or even from my childhood years that I’ve grown attached to and never seems to age for me. Music that brings poignant memories of good times, that changes the way the world looks – sometimes in an instant, sometimes it just grows on you slowly.
Although we always take our music with us there are some places that consistently seem to be places where we really need it. In the home and in the car are particular places where you automatically turn the music on, when you want to listen to it and at the volume that suits the mood you are in. Of course, you can spend the day with a portable stereo and earphones plugged in, great if you are on foot. However, the two places we usually want the best quality music player in are the home and in the car and that’s where the quality becomes more important.
Often when setting up home we treat ourselves to a music system that allows us to play our carefully acquired music whenever we please, but the car tends to be left out because the music system in it comes as standard. Although we spend a lot of time in the car we tend to get used to what is available to us and the factory fitted car stereo system is accepted.
Remember that a car audio system is factory fitted with a low cost system that doesn’t waste too much money on car owners who really do not care about music. They sound OK, they have to, just so that cars in the showroom at least sound good, but when you spend so much time driving and appreciate music then you might feel better with a change.
Why put up with factory specification when you can put some power and quality into that beautiful sound you want to enjoy whilst you are held captive going from A to B? Get a brand new quality car stereo system that gives your music the justice it deserves.
In fact, doesn’t this sound like a great gift to somebody you know. Someone who travels often, loves music and would appreciate a gift of a quality new car stereo system. If you did give this as a gift then imagine that moment their favourite music is played, it catches them just at the right time, lifts them higher than they have felt for ages, in perfect clarity and powerful volume. A car stereo system is the perfect gift of a perfect sound in a place where it really does get appreciated.
What Does A Digital Bass Processor Do?
Posted on November 11, 2011 | Speakers.
If you are to look at any system that has a serious car stereo in it you will most likely notice that most have a digital sound processor. The first time I saw one of these I thought it was just an overpriced bass boost, and that my current amp would do basically the same thing. Little did I know that a bass processor is much more than a bass boost.
A bass processor is installed before any crossovers or signal processors. So it would be hooked up right after your in dash unit. Always install before your crossover. At first you might think that a bass processor would be just for bass heads. This is not the case a bass processor can also improve the low end sound of all music from classical to rap. So what exactly does it do?
A good bass processor contains a circuit that accurately recreates and injects low frequency information back into the signal, giving your bass more impact. A bass processor will also allow you to customize this low end power to your specific vehicle. It does this by allowing you control the para-bass functions. What this does is allows you to adjust the sweep and the width of the bass.
The sweep will let you pick a certain frequency you want the bass restoration circuit to maximize. Having a lower sweep the bass will be centered around lower frequencies. While having the sweep higher means it will be centered around a higher frequency. While the width allows you to control how wide of a frequency range it will effect. If you have the width low the bass will be centered around a smaller frequency range, and turning this up higher will increase the frequency range.
So with all this bass processing going on you might be worried about your expensive subwoofers. I know that is something I was worried about when I first installed a “epicenter” by Audio Control a popular bass processor. I was mainly worried about the subsonic frequencies that can damage your stereo equipment.
If you look at any good bass processor will come with what is called subsonic filter. Subsonic frequencies are those that are not audible to the human ear. Sound frequencies that are below 20Hz are considered subsonic. A good bass processor will have a subsonic filter that will make sure you don’t waste your car stereo’s power on this subsonic information and will make sure you are putting all of your systems power to good use.
A subsonic filter is a huge feature to being able to fine tune your bass response. On most systems setting this filter at 33Hz will be good. If you want to protect you’re your speaker system even more though you can try a higher frequency. Often a higher frequency will sound louder and cleaner.
So whether your interest is in Beethoven’s kettle drums, Miles Davis’ trumpet, or the percussion of rap music, a digital bass processor will restore those long lost bass notes.