What is a quality car audio?

First of all, it's an opportunity to hear each audio track separately: parts of musical instruments, vocals with a wide range. High-quality speakers with high accuracy broadcast all the sound shades of the instruments, without cutting off the frequencies and without embellishing the sound. A good auto sound plays music without resonance salon details. The non-standard system, in addition to the main advantages, has an increased volume, although this parameter should not be considered the main one.

What is the main minus of regular audio components

Since auto sound does not affect safety and reliability in any way, automakers are not obliged and not interested in equipping a car with a good audio system. More often than not, components from fairly well-known brands such as Blaupunkt, Clarion, etc. are installed in the machines from the factory. Despite the fact that these are really good brands, the cheapest components are installed in cars from the conveyor.

Native acoustics sound in a narrow frequency range and make the music flat, and the sound stage is not voluminous. This is exactly the case when the word "loses" must be understood in all its senses. In addition to the low-quality sound, the interior details start ringing at high volume and the door cards vibrate and the dashboard vibrates. Of course, in the premium cars are installed elite components. In addition, to achieve a hi-end sound, the body is specially prepared, a subwoofer is installed, a sound amplifier and the location of each speaker is carefully calculated.

How many speakers do you need in a car?

In this case, the important role is played not by quantity, but by quality. High-quality acoustics should not be coaxial, but component, at least with 2 frequency channels. This system includes a tweeter (tweeter), midbass (mid-range speaker) and a crossover (frequency filter).

The minimum recommended number of speakers in the car is a pair of 2-channel sets that must be placed in the front part of the cabin. In principle, this is enough to hear the obvious differences from the regular system. In order to reproduce bass frequencies normally, it is recommended to install a pair of 1-component speakers with a large diameter in the rear part of the cabin. At the same time round speakers should be at least 16 cm, and oval 6x9.

Ideal is to to buy a car subwoofer and put it in the back of the cabin, connecting to a separate channel . In the future, in order to achieve better sound quality, as well as good hearing at all points in the cabin, it is not a bad thing to increase the number of speakers.

What are the main parameters in the choice of speakers?

The main problem that may arise after the purchase is the problem of standardization. In most cases, the standard speakers are smaller than the standard ones in diameter and diameter. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the dimensions before to buy speakers in the car.

The two most important characteristics when choosing are sensitivity and resistance. The budget version of the installation involves a direct connection to the car radio without an audio amplifier. In this case, the sensitivity should be about 92 decibels, and the resistance should be at least 4 ohms.

How to choose cheap speakers?

Almost all manufacturers of car audio produce both premium product lines and low cost. But in this case there are exceptions. For example, Focal acoustics is only premium, and the JBL brand produces mostly low-cost components. A budget set of front speakers (two tweeters, two midbass and two crossovers) of a normal brand cost about 70-80 dollars. Of course, the "nameless Chinese" have cheap speakers that have good performance. You can buy this class of car audio if you want to buy a new one every year. As for the good speakers, they are designed for use in the free volume of doors, trunk, etc.

What needs to be done besides replacing the factory speakers?

First of all, you need to choose the right place for the installation. Tweeters (tweeters) must be placed higher, closer to the listener and direct the sound to him. Low midrange (midbass) are located lower. The subwoofer can be put in any part of the cabin.

Installing speakers in a car is not everything. It is very important to firmly fasten the speakers on the dense parts of the car body. If there is no platform for fasteners (usually it is plastic), you need to make spacer rings, for example, from thick plywood.

To fully enjoy the perfect acoustics sound, you need to to buy soundproofing and handle the interior. It is advisable to soundproof all door panels where there are speakers. If this is not possible, you can cut a sheet of vibration isolation and stick it opposite the back side of the speaker. This will eliminate unpleasant ringing when the metal rattles.

What is the difference between expensive and budget drivers?

In addition to high performance, expensive materials, premium acoustics is different way of installation. If the speaker of the budget system sounds for the volume of the door, trunk or cabin as a whole (depending on the installation location), then for each Hi-Fi speaker (except for some tweeters) a special camera is made, the volume of which is provided by the manufacturer or the installer determines.

Elite components include an auto subwoofer and several amplifiers for per-channel amplification of the subwoofer, front and rear signals. At the same time, for such a system, you need to buy cables to connect and process the machine with vibration insulation, which includes the disassembly of the trunk and cabin.

For high-quality sound, the sound stage is individually adjusted, the angle of the speaker axis is adjusted, up to a couple of degrees. Also adjusts the level and frequency range of the signal of each of the speakers. Of course, with this approach, you will have to to buy the head unit better.

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