Car Audio Blog

BMW Audio Improvement Sound Upgrade Kits in five stages.

Ray Smith — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:01:10 +0000

We have had so much success with our BMW sound improvement kits that we had to bring you the latest news and how to get the best sound out of your BMW whether you are working to a budget or simply want the best sound money can buy, we can guarantee complete satisfaction. June 2013 [...]

Quality Car Tweeters FREE

Ray Smith — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:07:42 +0000

Something for nothing is always good but when you are offered a pair of one hundred and fifty pound (yes £150.00) pair of high quality car tweeters from Italian Hi-Fi specialists “Hertz” you must be asking; what’s the catch? This super-tweeter has such a niche place in the market (I will explain this later) that [...]

New Rainbow Intelli Sub 10 Give Away

Ray Smith — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:17:48 +0000

At Driving Sounds we go to great lengths to provide you with sound system advice (excuse the pun) Probably the most contentious element of a system is bass. For those of you already hooked on bass, we salute you but, sometimes we need to review the levels at which we are listening and also the [...]

Rainbow IQ Car Speaker upgrades line changed

Ray Smith — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:31 +0000

The very popular rainbow IQ line vehicle specific factory OE upgrade speakers has been overhauled and slimmed down to fit fewer cars. The new custom fit (Intelligence Line) IL Line range of rainbow speakers consists of only six pairs. Two BMW (E46 Limo and Coupe), two Mercedes (W124 Front and Rear) and two VW Golf [...]

Parrot Asteroid Tablet Unique Install

Ray Smith — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:53:45 +0000

This Parrot Asteroid Tablet Bluetooth car kit was fitted in place of the vehicles standard car radio display. The old display was re-located in the roof panel. This car is available for demonstration at our showroom in Dunbar anytime The Parrot Asteroid Tablet is available on our website, here..

Driving Sounds Issue three out today

Ray Smith — Thu, 30 May 2013 09:54:24 +0000

Car audio specialists have a good read available in “Driving Sounds” magazine issue 3 which is now available from Four Master Dealers or direct from DrivingSounds.com This issue has over fifty pages of good stuff and interesting articles about dealers and their customer’s cars with high quality audio installations. The guys at “Four” have invested [...]

Facebook alerts spoken out of your car radio

Ray Smith — Wed, 29 May 2013 15:39:50 +0000

Alpine have a new range of clever Facebook connected car audio Head Units available. The baby of the range is the CDE-175R – CD USB Headunit with Tune-it and Facebook and at £159.99 it is a steal. Next in the range is the CDE-177BT which sports Bluetooth as does the top of the line CDE-178BT. [...]

HD video driving recorder with G-shock sensor.

Ray Smith — Tue, 28 May 2013 10:26:21 +0000

Collect motoring incident evidence on SD card for insurance and legal purposes, and even share these videos directly to YouTube when analyzing journeys using the MiVue manager. 3-axis G-shock sensor The integrated 3-axis G-shock Sensor records driving directions in a wave diagram, which can be interpreted to show the direction the impact came from and [...]

How do you make a great sound even better?

Ray Smith — Mon, 27 May 2013 15:31:00 +0000

Ray’s demonstration car has changed a few times over the years from Genesis amplifiers to Audison and Voce speakers with under seat active sub which made a pretty good sound and helped many customers choose similar systems. This week Ray decided to take it to the next stage and his fitters pulled the car apart [...]

Which Bluetooth iPod solution, Dension or Fiscon?

Ray Smith — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:51:47 +0000

This is a true story about the frustrations of dealing with the inadequacies of UK suppliers more than the merits of the products but it serves to outline the steps customers should consider before leaping in to have these products supplied and fitted by dealers. If it helps someone with a BMW or VW who [...]