Car Stereo Systems - Your car stereo resource

When you mention the power amplifier to someone who loves car stereos, you will get a long discussion about what it can do. However, the preamplifier is not only little understood by many, some don’t even know it exists. This is because the preamplifier is something that is vitally important, but hidden away in the [...]

When a car stereo system is running properly, the signal will go from the head unit, out to the subwoofer and amplifiers, and then into the speakers. However, when it goes to the amplifiers, there are two different stages that occur which have an impact on the quality of the car stereo system.
In the amplifier [...]

We are guessing you are realizing there is a lot more to amplifiers than you previously thought. They go well beyond simply choosing the one that has the most wattage. So far, you have had to consider what type of amplifier you want, where you want it, how many speakers to connect to it and [...]

You can have two guesses of what the amplifier does, but the first guess doesn’t count. Obviously, when you think of the amplifier, you realize that it amplifies the power of the car stereo system.
The main job of the amplifier is to deliver an amplified signal to the speakers of the car. This has [...]

Just when you thought you had learned everything you needed to know about car amplifiers on this website, you find out there are other types of amplifiers you need to consider. These come in the varieties of two channel, three/four channel, five channel and mono-bridge channel.
Two Channel
The two-channel car stereo system amplifier is a very [...]