Learn to Understand Car Speakers

Getting the right set-up of speakers in your car is vital if you want to enjoy music while on the move. If the stereo in your car is very much an added extra with little relevance to your enjoyment of a car journey, you do not really need to worry about it, but for many people a good stereo really makes a car. It is something that adds to the overall feel of a car, and for people who want their journeys to be comfortable and highly enjoyable, a good sound system can make all the difference. The more important music is to you, the more attention you will need to pay to the sound system.

Nowhere is this more relevant than in the speaker set-up. There are so many different speaker set-ups that you can possibly choose, and consequently the importance of getting it right is all the higher. You can easily spend a lot of money getting a sound system installed and then find that its delivery is little better than average. It is important to have in mind what you want and then address that with the people from whom you are purchasing the sound system.

The standard speaker set-up in a car will be the "Coaxial" option. This is the one that generally comes with new cars and it tends to feature a woofer (which delivers low frequency, bass noises) with a tweeter mounted on top of it providing the high frequency sounds. These systems are installed as standard and will deliver an adequate level of sound for occasional use. If sound quality is important to you, however, you will find these systems to be inadequate for the purposes of delivering detailed, varied sound.

If you are looking for genuine sound quality in your in-car entertainment system, the least you should be looking for is a component-based speaker system. The component system separates the woofers from the tweeters, and drives sound only to the speakers that can handle it. This allows for cleaner, more efficient sound and a far more honest representation of the music as the makers wanted it to be heard. It will make your in-car listening experience a good deal closer to what you would expect from a home entertainment system.

The best bet if you want to buy a sound system is to consult closely with your supplier making clear what exactly you want and what kind of car it has to fit into. There are so many and such widely varied possible set-ups and the one that works for person A will not necessarily work for person B. There are certain aspects that remain constant no matter what the situation, however. A tweeter should always be placed where it has a clear path to the listener, otherwise its effect will be lost. Make sure as well that the size and shape of your car is ready to handle the sound system that you want to install. Failure to set things up properly can lead to things going wrong both with your car and with your stereo.