Mike's Car Audio Reviews

Mike’s Car Audio Reviews will be reviewing all the major components of custom car audio equipment and covering the information for what it will take to have the set up you want. Rather you are looking to compete in local or national car shows in SPL (Sound Pressure Level), SQ (Sound Quality), or just want to have a great sounding system in your car, you will be able to get a lot of great information from this website. Car cd player reviews will cover all the important information you will need to look in to when choosing the perfect car stereo for you car audio system. Car speaker reviews will cover important information you will need to keep in mind when looking to buy component, coaxial and tweeters. Car amplifiers reviews will help you choose the perfect amplifier. Car subwoofer reviews, i think the most important, will have you choose the best subwoofer so you can get the bass you are looking for out of your car audio system. Be sure to read the car audio blog so you can read all of my reviews.

Car stereo receivers, or CD players, are not the most important thing when it comes to SPL or SQ, but it is still a couple of things that need some consideration, even if you plan on having all of your car speakers and subwoofers powered by amplifiers. Features and looks are probably going to get a lot of consideration when choosing a car stereo. The most important thing, in my mind, is going to be preamp voltage, if you will be using amplifiers on all of your speakers.

Car amplifiers, or amps, and another big piece of the car audio puzzle. If you going to be using the amp to power midrange speakers and tweeters, you will want to look for a AB amplifier that is multi channel. If you are planning on powering subwoofers, you will probably want to look for a class D mono amp. You also have to look at the RMS and peak rating on your speakers. If the amplifier going to be use to power subwoofers, you have to know how you are going to wirer the subs. Positive to positive, negative to negative, parallel and series and how this affects ohms and how a drop in ohms affects to output of the amplifiers. You also have to make sure the ohm load matches the ohm of the subwoofer as well. Don’t worry, i will soon having wiring diagrams for you to use. Car amplifier reviews will be available in the car audio blog.

Car Subwoofers, or Subs, is where the fun starts, but again you may need different type of subwoofer drivers depending on SPL vs SQ. You will also have to keep in mind the air space required per subwoofer, watts, RMS and peak, and size. Subwoofers also come in more than one shape now. You have round, square and triangle subs to choose from. Subwoofers also come in 2, 4 and 8 ohms with both single and dual voice coils. Other things to know and understand when buying a subwoofer is listed below. You can also read the car audio blog to get my reviews of all different types of car audio equipment including car subwoofer reviews.

Car Speakers, this is when you are going to have to start making decisions carefully. Midrange speakers come in many different types: coaxials, components, woofers and tweeters will be very important if you are planning on going in to SQ competition, but not important in SPL at all. Don’t let any ever tell you that tweeters will help you in it, they wont. Speakers come in many different sizes. The size speakers you buy will probably have a lot to do with the factory speaker locations in your car or truck, Of course you always have the option getting a custom car audio system. My audio blog will give you much more information when i do the speaker reviews and go more into detail with each speaker.

There are many different types of boxes you can use to mount your subwoofers. I will be going over the different types of subwoofer enclosures options that you have.