Car Audio mag 20th Anniversary

cdeditor — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:07:00 +0000

Editor, Car Audio & Electronics Magazine

Vote for your favorite… We’re celebrating Car Audio and Electronic magazine’s 20th anniversary this summer. See the October issue for a special retrospective covering some of the best custom car audio rides from the show and sound competition circuit. Online we’ll be featuring each of the vehicles from the retrospective with additional pics. Every week users can vote for their favorite cars from the different categories. Here I’m posting interior shots from various Alpine demo vehicles (the full features can be found on our site). Chronologically you have the Honda Civic, Mini Cooper, BMW X5, The BMW 645 and the MBZ R500. Tough choice but I think I may have to lean toward the Civic that Chris Yato and Steve Brown built, partially because it’s the vehicle that really got the over-the-top demo car trend going. And you see variations of different design elements from the Civic in the cars that followed. Comment on your favorite and vote for yours starting next week on the Car Audio website.

Follow the jump to check out the legendary rides!

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Honda Civic:

MINI Cooper Chop Top:

X5 Ultimate Listening Machine:

Sinister 6:

MBZ R500:

Stay tuned to CA&E for more details!

Check out our previous Alpine coverage, including builds of some of these amazing demo cars over on SoundDomain!

Car Audio Mag Future Feature: Audible Excellence

cdeditor — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:40:00 +0000

By Ben Oh

Car Audio Mag Editor

The car is an increasingly complex extension of your person and, especially if you’re intocar audio, it’s an extension of your house — often I’m on my couch listening to and evaluating music or watching a movie; pretty much what I do in my car! Of course, for some, for brief periods of their lives (very brief, one would hope), cars ARE their homes. The car isn’t just about getting from A to B or individual expression, it’s about a high level of functionality as well. Just as the mobile phone is basically an add-on appendage stuck to your ear that connects you to everyone else, the car is like a robot you wear that cocoons and connects you toeverywhere. Car Audio has always been about SQ and custom cars. And it’s also about the evolution of the automobile from a mode of transportation to, well, a giant gadget on wheels. That being said — look at the Mercedes C230 Sport seen here, built by movie sound engineer Gary Summers and the guys at Kustom Kar inSanta Rosa. This is a great example of a true SQ vehicle. It’s one of the best sounding cars we’ve featured in the mag. The article also really gets into how Gary tunes the car.

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You don’t need the world’s best equipment for great mobile sound, but it doesn’t hurt having Alpine F1, Morel special edition speakers and JL Audio subwoofers. But the key is in the tuning. Of course, the pics you see here are just a taste. Check out the full story in the Sept. issue of Car Audio Mag.

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Car Audio mag 20th Anniversary

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