Is is possible to have Car Audio sound as nice as Home Audio?

[Shawn]

The setup in my bedroom sounds soooo much better then my car setup and I've spend hundreds on my car setup. The sound, bass, etc is so much crisper and clearer on my home setup.......

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

no

 

[N8Magic]

In short, no.

(the inside of a car is one of the worst environments for accurate music reproduction)

 

[Harvey]

Only if you had a car interior as big as your livingroom, and you didn't have to consider that cars also have to a few other minor things, like moving and carrying passengers.

 

[glen]

Mine is better than most homes. But my home is better. Having EQTs and and my own RTA helps a lot.
You need horns or PODs to get any sort of stereo image, and you need a 31 channel EQ to get the sound right. And you need test tones for the RTA, and a lot of time.
Here is the car and set up:
http://www.sounddomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=134802&page=1

The car is tuned to have a gradual slope from 10hz to 20khz of 1.5 db/ octave ie., 120db at 10hz, 118.5 at 20hz, 117 at 40hz, 115.5 at 80hz, etc... all the way to 20khz. That is the correct way to EQ a far feild source, which it is in your car, home, or basically anywhere.

 

[bleeb]

if you want good sound in your car, you'll need to add dampeners into the interior.

 

[silverpig]

Yes it is.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Yes it is.

No it isn't.

 

[glen]

The small volume of the car HELPs tremendously with low frequency reproduction.

The bad thing about the car is you sit off center, so stereo imaging is almost impossible.

 

[ElFenix]

a friend of mine used to be a top amatuer in car audio competitions... damn that car sounded good!

 

[Shockwave]

Glen hit it right.
Car audio takes a WHOLE lot more time and patience and work, but yeah its possible.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: glen
The small volume of the car HELPs tremendously with low frequency reproduction.

The bad thing about the car is you sit off center, so stereo imaging is almost impossible.

time correction on my HU helps a bit

 

[flyfish]

The cool thing about car audio is that you have a "captured audience"per se. You have fixed listening positions to work with. Staging is where you can make up for lack of "nice sound" of home audio.

 

[Fudssa]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Yes it is.

No it isn't.

 

[0roo0roo]

car audio is overpriced for what you get. there were no pc speaker wars in car audio apparently. pc speakers have come a long way.

course with a car you gotta use sound dampening if your car doesn't have enough. subs, and speakers that can put out enough sound to overcome road noise, in really lousy mounting positions to boot. no nice wooden cabinets for speakers, just plastic mounting in your doors or rear deck. not so kewl. u gotta boost certain frequencies to compensate for all that road noise. best to have someone else drive while you tune the eq or something. very expensive to get decent sound. cars interior is hostile enviroment for sound quality.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: glen
Mine is better than most homes. But my home is better. Having EQTs and and my own RTA helps a lot.
You need horns or PODs to get any sort of stereo image, and you need a 31 channel EQ to get the sound right. And you need test tones for the RTA, and a lot of time.
Here is the car and set up:
http://www.sounddomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=134802&page=1

The car is tuned to have a gradual slope from 10hz to 20khz of 1.5 db/ octave ie., 120db at 10hz, 118.5 at 20hz, 117 at 40hz, 115.5 at 80hz, etc... all the way to 20khz. That is the correct way to EQ a far feild source, which it is in your car, home, or basically anywhere.

Your car is still too small for you to hear bass.

 

[OulOat]

I don't get why people spend so much on their cars, instead of useful investments, like homes. Unlike these bloated cars, houses cannot be hit by other houses. And home values usually go up with age, where car values decrease most of the time.