Car Audio – The Evolution Continues

In the early days, radio music and the patter of radio announcers were the rage when driving a car. In those days, car audio consist mostly of a portable radio receiver with its own set of speakers installed in a car.  Today, with digital music coming in from many other sources, the car’s sound system has evolved as well.

Most of the evolution went along with the digitizing of sound and pictures that can be sent and received. In the small system within the car, the main consideration is the quality of that digital sound.

Reasons

Asking a number of people why they want some sounds while driving their cars can have as many number of reasons as well. Mostly, though, people want to have some pleasurable distraction while driving.

The distraction can come from some straight music or some live patter (DJs and news announcers or talk show hosts) or some canned audio programs (comedy shows, podcasts and commentaries). More than 90% wants to have music, and the best kind there is, not just the content but in the performances.

The Audio System

Today, a Car Audio NYC means the total sound system used to play music inside the car including the related devices used – the head unit, the amplifiers and the speakers. These component devices are all equally important in producing the kind of sound quality that you want.

To get that quality, you need to get the best kind (not necessarily the most talked-about brands) of each of these components. Once installed and orchestrated to the best of their capabilities, you can have the sound quality that you’ve always wanted. These might include where you want your speakers, maybe having a subwoofer in the amplifier, or having some graphic display in the head unit (the control box).

The Music and the Devices

The main consideration is getting the right devices to play your kind of music inside your car. (These days, however, that distinction is slowly being erased because most audio systems for cars can play any kind of music at the touch of a button). Be it classical, pop, R & B, hip-hop, jazz, swing, even plain talk audio – any kind can now be programmed onto the system.

These days, too, is also the age of integration in terms of devices to play the music with and the media where they came from. Today’s car’s system must be able to play not just what comes out of the radio, the CD, the iPods, or MPG players.

Integration

Your system must somehow be able to integrate the sounds coming from these sources into your car’s system. The main reason is that you also use these portable players in listening to your music outside of the car and they usually carry your whole music library.

These days, when one talks about Car Audio NYC, it could mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. They usually agree, however, that listening these days to the sounds inside the car is better than ever.