When I was a kid I used to read car magazines and dream of someday owning a legendary car like a Ferrari, Maserati, or Lamborghini. In the world of car audio amplifiers, one of the most legendary brands is Rockford Fosgate. But unlike in the [ … ]
Many audio enthusiasts have changed their music collections over to a compressed digital media format, and now carry thousands of songs within their favorite players. With your entire music collection at your fingertips, the need for a CD mechanism in the dash becomes more diminished all the [ … ]
The Phoenix Gold brand of car audio was founded in 1988 as a maker of audio cables and accessories for home and car audio. In 1990, the brand expanded to include amplifiers and speakers. Over the following decade or so, Phoenix Gold established an excellent reputation based on the qualit [ … ]
Have you noticed lately that a lot more audio manufacturers have been talking about efficiency? In a car stereo amplifier, we measure efficiency by comparing the amount of power consumed (in watts) from the battery, versus the amount of power (also in watts) delivered to the loudspeakers. The diff [ … ]
Of all of the products I get to review and play with, I’d have to say that component loudspeakers are my favorite product to evaluate. The choice of which loudspeakers we use has more effect on the overall sound of our systems than any other component. And I listen to a lot of different types, [ … ]