Quality of standard CD players in cars called into doubt Founder and MD of high end car audio distributor FOUR, Brian Parton, called round to show me his new system last week. Brian took his car to see FOUR MASTER, Stuart Crombie at Accutek. An installer who is held in extremely high regard by his […]

Car audio – Starting from scratch In the beginning there were the sounds of our habitat – Nothing else had been invented. These sounds and a human’s ability to hear them, tell what direction they were coming from and judge whether they were happy sounds or sounds of warning helped contribute to the evolution and […]

Media Oriented Transport Systems (MOST) allow high quality digital audio information to be acquired and used to improve your in car sound

Mid-Range frequencies are vitally important in car audio systems. The lack of attention to this important area is what makes most people believing that all car stereos sound poor. A competent installer can achieve wonders on a relatively small budget and without impacting on the aesthetics of your vehicle.

The image above is of the interior of one of the finest show cars currently in circulation, a Vauxhall Astra belonging to FOUR MASTERs John Kleis in Reading. The build quality and sheer power of the overall system has been wowing car show visitors for three or so years now and it never fails to […]

Is this the best sounding car in the country? This picture shows a very small part of the dashboard of a VW Golf demo car built by FOUR MASTER supremo’s Source Sounds in Sheffield. The car is completely smothered in speakers. There are 100 voice coils (that’s the component that makes speakers move in and […]

Are 17 speakers in your car truly better than four really good ones? We don’t think so and explain why!

Phasers on Stun! This month’s final frontier is to the highly critical, planet phase. To kick off, we need to make sure you all understand how sound gets to your ears. Sound is basically the detection of movement of air entering our ears and creating sympathetic movement of the ear drum. The more violently the […]

16 bit vs 24 bit-depth audio This topic is probably one of the most difficult to boil down for the lay person! Digital audio is a very complex and controversial business due to the apparent need to parameterise what is considered by many to be as psychological a phenomena as it is physics-based! An example […]

Already struggling with terminology? For those who are, I will start by telling you that “equalisation” is simply a posh term for tone control. Sometimes these appear as bass and treble on audio equipment but in a car, this is never adequate in order to tailor sound to match the listening environment. Graphic Equalisers Since […]