Tag: Auto Industry

In the years since its inception, the pathway to integrating the factory radio with aftermarket components has been riddled with cheap methods, noisy adaptors and countless failures. The usual method if you wanted to add an amp to your car’s factory system involved the use of a high to low level adaptor, which worked “enough” at the time, although there was inherent noise and a huge lack of performance from this band-aid.

Automobile manufacturers have made some baby steps toward making the factory stereo system look and sound better, but they’re still falling way short of what’s possible when it comes to getting great sounding audio and extra features from your car system. Every year, the auto industry tries to change the designs of head units (radio's) so that it makes it difficult (if not impossible) to change the radio in order to upgrade the system. Thank goodness the aftermarket industry changes with the times! Read more