Car Amplifier Choices

Series Summary

Thinking of updating the sound system in your vehicle? Cassettes are totally awesome, but now that you don’t have the time or energy to rummage through boxes of old tapes at your local garage sale, it might be time to consider installing some new audio equipment in your car. Depending on the replacement model stereo you choose, you might finally be able to play a CD, or possibly even impress your work friends as you play your i-pod on the way to lunch.

In this series of free videos, you’ll get step-by-step instructions on how to replace your old car stereo amplifier with the perfect one you chose. Expert Larry Lundy takes you through the entire decision process, from the decision to get an amplifier for your car to differences between each amplifier available. The installation process is fairly simple and makes a great do-it-yourself project. Your old vehicle will sound better than ever, especially now that you can rock the digitally remastered reissue of Boston’s debut release.

Video Transcript

"Hey guys it's me Larry from Cartunz Motor Sports Tacoma, Washington, Puyallup, Washington and today we're going to be going over one of the great mysteries of twelve volt. The amplifier, what it is, what it does, where you get it, how you get it. The, you know, the myths, the truths about amplifiers and how they can apply to your situation or anyone else's situation for that matter. Hopefully I can make the transition between informed consumer and non-informed consumer a little bit more convenient in between. You know, past conjecture and past just trying to sell you something, the truth about what amplifiers do, no embellishment just the real deal. Amplifiers big metal boxes, kind of, they do all kinds of things for your vehicle as far as sound is concerned. It can give you full range, give you low frequency for sub woofer and like people there's many different varieties. We have, they come in all different shapes, sizes and colors well probably not a whole lot of colors here because these are all neutral but as you can see they come in many different sizes. We have multichannel analog amps for, for floor range, we have a digital but Mossfet based D class mono block for just your woofers. We have a six channel amplifier that does multichannel outputs. It gives you full range plus your low pass frequency and this amplifiers digital input, has a DAC, DAC, digital analog converter, it has a fire wire port, USB port, data logging and tuning by laptop only. In a mouthful, then we have our standard digital to analog converter amp that has conventional analog controls but a digital to analog converter on the line outputs in a line balance inputs too so two channel amplifier. As you can see, many different types of amplifiers and hopefully I can break down some of the different types, what they're used for to help you the consumer make a more educated decision on what amplifiers going to best suit your needs. And as you can see I probably have a good five grand in front of me at least in inventory so not only are amplifiers fascinating but also, well somewhat profitable, but past the business aspect amplifiers will give you what you need. Natural sound reproduction be it if you want to pound down the block or listen to that Beethoven Symphony Orchestra over your CD player but all in all there's something for everyone."