Monday, November 19, 2012

Great Bass In A Tight Space

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Land yachts are quickly disappearing. Cars and crossovers have been on a course where space has become much tighter. There are more factory electronics now. Every concealed nook and cranny seems to be filled with something essential. Cabins are proportionally larger and dead space is rare. But, if you want great bass reproduction you need to have a sizeable subwoofer enclosure. Cars are also being built better now, often having solid or nearly sealed rear bulkheads. This compounds the problem of getting bass radiation into the cabin of a sedan. Much of the structure is in place to attenuate road noise and increase the structural integrity of the vehicle. So you can’t remove anything. Add to that, the fact that many vehicle owners want great bass but in a stealth installation…heard but not seen.

A good car audio designer must have quite a few tools in his bag because every vehicle is a little different and one size won’t fit all. Each individual vehicle will dictate a varying approach if you want to get the best bass performance. A good car audio designer must be able to understand and effectively execute a number of subwoofer loading schemes with equal effectiveness including infinite baffle, aperiodic, air suspension, bass-reflex and bandpass to name a few. The parameters of the sub driver must match the particular method of subwoofer loading (enclosure type) and each enclosure has to be modeled independently to uniquely fit a given vehicle. This requires a little computer power and a very good subwoofer modeling software.

Sure, many can get passable results with the audio equivalent of a dead blow hammer. What they lack in precision they make up for with the leverage of more power, more subwoofer and more enclosure space. We can certainly do that. But, when the situation calls for a more creative and knowledge-intensive approach, we have many more alternate solutions that yield better sound quality. The challenge is what makes it interesting.    

David
Earmark Car Audio

www.earmarkcaraudio.com


Monday, November 5, 2012

BMW 528i Install

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BMW 528i
 Before we started on the speakers.

 Beginning stages of door panels.

Final stages of door panels.

Hertz high energy 3-way component speakers
installed and maintain factory look.

Just wrapped in vinyl.

Carpeted inserts installed and vinyl trimmed.

 Testing LEDs and location for best effect.

Factory fold down arm rest. 

A factory look with two 10W0 subs firing through.

Final test looks great and sounds even better!

First view of the trunk.

Bit ten and JL Audio amp mounted, tuned and tested.


Trunk finished and ready to deliver. We added a
raised JL Audio logo under the carpet for added effect.