#stereo components

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From the classic audio files: the Bose 901, 501 and 301 loudspeaker systems - 1975.

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Record & Tape Center

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listening to records

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Upgrade Your Toyota Innova Sound Experience: Key Features to Consider

When you own a Toyota Innova Crysta, you expect comfort, reliability, and a smooth driving experience. But one aspect that can truly elevate your time on the road is a great music system. Whether you're taking a long road trip or just commuting through the city, having a high-quality sound system can make all the difference.

In this blog, we'll walk you through key features to consider when upgrading your Innova Crysta music system. You'll discover what elements contribute to great sound quality and why making the right choices will greatly enhance your driving experience.

1. Sound Quality: The Heart of Your Music System

When choosing a music system for your Innova Crysta, the first and most important feature to focus on is sound quality. A top-notch music system will offer crystal-clear sound, deep bass, and vibrant treble. You want a system that delivers high-quality audio whether you're listening to your favorite songs, podcasts, or the latest audiobook.

When exploring options for your Innova Crysta music system, pay attention to the speaker quality. Check for systems with a good frequency response, which means they can handle both low and high sounds effectively. You'll also want to look for systems with minimal distortion at high volumes, ensuring the sound stays clean and clear no matter how loud you turn up the music.

2. Speaker Configuration: Coaxial vs. Component

There are two main types of speaker systems you can choose from: coaxial and component. Coaxial speakers are commonly found in many cars, and they combine the woofer and tweeter in one speaker. They're a good choice for basic sound, but they may not give you the richness or clarity of more advanced systems.

Component speakers, on the other hand, separate the woofer, tweeter, and other elements. This allows for better sound positioning and a clearer, more dynamic sound experience. For those looking to truly enhance their Innova Crysta music system, component speakers are definitely worth considering for a more immersive audio experience.

3. Amplifiers: Power Up Your Music

An amplifier is an essential part of any high-quality music system. It boosts the audio signal, ensuring that your speakers receive enough power to deliver crisp, detailed sound. While many stock sound systems in cars come with basic amplifiers, upgrading to a more powerful one can dramatically improve your audio experience.

When upgrading your Innova Crysta music system, consider investing in an amplifier with enough power to drive all your speakers effectively. This ensures that you'll get clear, balanced sound throughout your car, no matter where you or your passengers are seated.

4. Subwoofers: Feel the Bass

A subwoofer can take your music experience to the next level, especially if you enjoy bass-heavy genres like hip hop, EDM, or rock. The subwoofer handles low-frequency sounds, delivering that deep, thumping bass that makes your music feel more immersive.

When upgrading your Innova Crysta music system, consider adding a subwoofer to balance out the highs and lows in your music. With a good subwoofer, you'll not only hear the bass but feel it, transforming your car into a concert on wheels.

5. User-Friendly Interface: Keep It Simple

No one wants a music system that's difficult to use, especially while driving. A user-friendly interface is key when choosing a new Innova Crysta music system. Look for systems with intuitive controls, easy-to-read displays, and compatibility with your smartphone. Bluetooth connectivity, USB ports, and hands-free calling are all features that make your driving experience more convenient and enjoyable.

6. Customization Options: Tailor Your Sound

Not all drivers want the same sound experience. Some prefer extra bass, while others focus on clarity. A high-quality Innova Crysta music system should give you the ability to customize your sound settings. Look for systems with equalizers that allow you to adjust the bass, treble, and midrange according to your preferences.

Additionally, some systems offer preset sound profiles for different genres of music, making it easy to switch between settings depending on what you're listening to.

Conclusion:

Upgrading your Innova Crysta music system is an investment that can significantly improve your driving experience. By focusing on key features like sound quality, speaker configuration, amplifiers, subwoofers, and ease of use, you can turn your car into a sound sanctuary. Whether you're an audiophile or just someone who enjoys listening to music on the go, a great music system will make every trip more enjoyable. Ready to upgrade your Innova Crysta music system? Explore top-quality options that deliver exceptional sound, easy functionality, and customizable features. Don't settle for standard—enhance your driving experience today!

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How Can I Improve My Car's Audio System?

How Can I Improve My Car’s Audio System? Improving your car’s audio system can transform your driving experience, turning mundane commutes into enjoyable journeys filled with high-quality sound. Whether you’re a casual listener or an audiophile, there are several steps you can take to enhance your car’s audio setup. Key Statistics: 67% of car owners believe that an upgraded audio system…

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The audio component system era was truly something else...if you had one of these in your bedroom in thes 90s and 2000s...you already know

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BBRAINZ X STEREO COMPONENT - TOKYO CRUISING

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From the classic audio files: the Bose 901 loudspeaker system - 1976.

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While I avoided noting it because it led to the digression you're about to wade through, I'm ecstatic to announce that yes, that cool satnav was also available for my beloved childhood Corolla! What do you mean "what childhood Corolla?"? The one from the first blue link in the post, silly! The one you clicked when you first read it because you know I lovingly weave them into my posts just for you (btw thank you so much for that! c:). What was I saying? Ah, right, the satnav! You can see the multi-function screen that would display directions right atop the dashboard!

And, like in the Yaris, the CD player or tape deck (or as shown here both if you're a real baller) were installed below in the center console DIN. Oh right, we're being accessible here - DIN is the standard head unit slot size's name, which derives from the German standard institution that codified it, like ISO files and film sensitivity came from the international organization DIN is the German branch of.

And that Corolla sure liked DINs - so much so that, as was the case for ours, you could swap the factory screen pod for a third DIN and forego factory Toyota infotainment in favor of whatever stereo you wanted, and those lower slots would just be filled by a storage tray.

Tray which, of course, someone handy could swap for yet more car Hi-Fi! But, since the Japanese law says "it's either Japan-only or has a cooler Japan-only spec", they made themselves a double DIN dash pod...

...and since the cupholders below the storage tray sure look like they're installed in a half-DIN slot, that makes for a maximum total of 4.5 DINs, which while I'm open to be proven wrong I think is an all time world record for production passenger cars.

To communicate the sheer power of this amount of space, let's list car stereo components until we fill it:

This, as you can see by the watermark, is no ordinary tape deck, but one of the handful of car stereos ever made that could play Digital Compact Cassettes, Philips' cosmically flopped attempt to update its most successful invention (at least if you count the CD a team effort with Sony).

The nice thing about that stereo is the DCC mechanism was designed to be able to play normal tapes too, meaning it can also function as an ordinary tape deck, unlike, uhh...

...that weird time Sony decided what people really wanted in a car was the ability to play their Video8 camcorder tapes. Well, to be fair this was more to put on movies for van or bus passengers, and putting videotape technology at the service of car entertainment was not a new idea...

...as indeed, there were a few stereos out there that played Digital Audio Tapes, Sony's attempt to make a compact cassette successor through VCR technology, which labels, frightened by bit-perfect copies, cockblocked out of mass adoption cornering it into the professional space. Professional space in which however it was a hit, so while you may not have heard of DAT, you've heard DAT, e.g. the master for Whitney's cover of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You was a DAT!

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The nice thing about DAT stereos though is that, with how new and high-tech it was when it came out, the few consumer DAT products ever made were range-toppers aimed at Hi-Fi tech pioneers with cash to blow on cutting the edge, so all these stereos are hefty, sturdy, well-built, top-quality, no expense-spared masterpieces.

Whereas nowadays most car stereos are more like this...

...cheap garbage whose only quality is that, however poorly, it does a lot of things. Hell, this unit alone has a DAB radio, Bluetooth, an AUX in, an SD card slot, a USB port, and a disc slot that promises to play CDs, DVDs, and -and I know you're not sold so far but here comes the dealmaker- Video CDs.

Which, combined with all the other formats from the head units above, forms a combined 14 different sources. Hell, if you want to round that up to 15 (let's pretend 15 is any more round a number) you can just move to the trunk...

...where you can mount a changer for MiniDiscs, the portable, digital, re-recordable Sony format -yeah Sony made a lot of formats huh-most notable for everyone falsely believing it flopped (truly the Tumblr of formats) and for NOT BEING A FUCKING MINI CD PEOPLE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. But then again, why mount that changer in the trunk when the thing is so adorably tiny you could effortlessly slot it under the seat or even in the glovebox!

"Ah, this is why I like you, man. You start talking about the Mk1 Yaris and you manage to fly the fuck away into completely unpredictable territories" glad you appreciate it, but what car do you think that changer is in? ;)

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

the Toyota Yaris is my babygirl... (I have a 2002 one which I named Tilly)

can I learn some more about my car maybe?

Call yourself Dr. Pepper because you can!

I have made a helpful diagram to illustrate.

Very happy someone asked about the car me dad was gonna buy, so I get to show its funky optical-illusion digidash that, through some magic I must say still eludes me, is made to look a lot further than it is so your eyes don't have to refocus to glance at it.

And I know what you're thinking - "Wow, digidashes are so cool, if only there was a website that collected them all" and my dear where do you think I got this image from? ;) But there's another cool thing about this image, speaking of it - what's with the coordinates in the lower display? Well it turns out that's why that button at the bottom right says "NAVI" above it - for the low low price of an absolute fucking fortune that it seems no one was willing to pay you could get your Yaris fitted with a little underseat satellite navigation unit that fed off map CDs (because people who say things were better back in the day just don't remember the details that well) and gave you directions in return!

"But wait", I hope and pray you're thinking so I get to do the reveal, "where's the screen then?" Well it's right there! What more screen do you need to be given a turn and a distance?

And that's not even all the cool tech that the Yaris ever got! In 2004, they made a special version called "Yaris Blue", available in blue, blue and blue, which offered steering wheel controls and what color was that tooth again ah right Bluetooth!

Hm. I wonder what website this image came from. Guess we'll never know. Anyway, imagine life in 2004 with a decked out Yaris: electric windows, a sunroof, Bluetooth and satnav, a wicked digidash... what else did you need? Hell, what else do you need today? Maybe a bit of space, but that was taken care of by the Yaris Verso that was introduced alongside it a couple years later! It married Toyota reliability and quality with a surprisingly spacious mini-MPV body style, with the only problem of being phantasmagorically ugly.

yeah. I don't think even in Japan you couldn't find one that looks decent.

Hm. I'm gonna need to sample the public on this one, but the fact that they call it Fun Cargo there may risk swaying me over.

They also did other fun things with the Mk1 Yaris in Japan, like calling it Vitz, giving it a turbo version because of COURSE, and making it one of Gran Turismo's most famous surprise win cars. You know how Gran Turismo has made many people, including some of y'all, fall in love with some cars? Yeah. I suspect it's done the opposite here. It is worth noting, here, that Gran Turismo random car prizes were not influenced by what cars you already had. Do you see where I am going with this.

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

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Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

This 1953 Muntz Jet convertible underwent a three-year custom build under previous ownership, and it was purchased by the seller in 2021. The car is powered by a fuel-injected 5.7-liter LT1 V8 engine paired with a four-speed automatic transmission and a Ford 9″ rear end, and it is finished in Apple Pearl with a white Carson-style removable top over gray snakeskin-style Naugahyde upholstery. Features include custom bodywork, an Art Morrison frame, power-assisted steering, four-wheel disc brakes, airbag suspension, Painless Performance wiring, and more modified and fabricated details. This custom-built Muntz is now offered with a copy of Rodder’s Journal magazine featuring a story on the build and a clean California title in the name of the seller’s business.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

The steel, aluminum, and fiberglass body is mounted on an Art Morrison ladder frame that was boxed and finished in semi-gloss black, and the floor was raised 3″. The exterior was repainted in a Sherwin Williams two-stage Apple Pearl mixed by the late Stan Betz. Features include a chopped Duvall-style windshield, 1950 Chevrolet headlights, dual Appleton spotlights, 1951 Ford Victoria side windows, and a white removable Carson-style top fabricated to match the height of the chopped windshield. Additional equipment includes color-matched rear fender skirts and chrome bumpers. Wear from fitting the top is noted on the rear deck.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

Steel wheels sourced from a 1976 Dodge measure 15″ and are mounted with Cadillac Sombrero-style covers and whitewall tires. A matching spare fitted with a BFGoodrich Silvertown tire is mounted within a rear-mounted Continental-style chrome carrier. A Mustang II front end accommodates power rack-and-pinion steering , and the car rides on an electronically-adjustable Air Ride Technologies airbag suspension system along with 2” lowered front spindles, Strange Engineering tube shocks, a rear Panhard bar, and front and rear sway bars. The seller reports that the front control arm bushings were recently replaced.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

Braking is handled by GM G-body-sourced calipers matched with Ford Granada discs up front and Ford SVO-specification calipers and discs at the rear.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

The cabin was customized by Jim’s Auto Trim of San Diego, California, and features Glide bucket seats and a rear bench trimmed in gray snakeskin-style Naugahyde upholstery, along with matching treatments for the dash trim, headliner, and door panels. Additional equipment includes a 1952 Lincoln steering wheel mounted to a shortened Lincoln steering column, gray cut-pile carpet, and a Pioneer stereo housed within a custom center cubby.

The engine-turned “Hollywood” instrument cluster houses Stewart Warner gauges consisting of an 8k-rpm tachometer, a 160-mph speedometer, and auxiliary readings for fuel level, battery charge, oil pressure, and water temperature. The five-digit odometer displays 25k miles, though total chassis mileage is unknown. A Lokar pedal assembly was fitted during the build.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

The Corvette-sourced 5.7-liter LT1 V8 features a polished fuel intake manifold along with billet aluminum valve covers, and additional features include an Opti-Spark distributor, a Griffin aluminum radiator, and a wiring loom sourced from Painless Performance Wiring. A set of long-tube headers are connected to a 2.5″ exhaust system equipped with dual Dynaflow mufflers. The seller reports that the oil was recently changed.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

Power is routed to the rear wheels via a four-speed 4L60E automatic transmission and a Ford 9″ rear end with with 3.55:1 gears and Strange Engineering 31-spline axles. Additional photos of the underside, drivetrain, and suspension components are presented in the gallery below.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

The car was featured in issue #36 of Rodders Journal magazine

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I am very hyped for BrotherShip, and you seem like someone who is also hyped. Please vent about everything we know so far, so I can live vicariously through your rant.

Uuuh jeeze where do I begin.

Love how hard they're going with the "brotherly bonds" angle. I don't think I've seen a game synopsis that focused this hard on the bond they have. Then there's fact that their physical touch seems to literally generate some sort of interdimensional power!?

How? Why? What's going on? I want to know. I want to know so bad. The world they get teleported to is called "Concordia," which means harmony/agreement. There's also the fact that the aesthetic theme of the game is centered around electricity, so maybe all powers revolve around flow/connection, which would be in line with introducing a mystical power generated by the brothers' emotional bond.

Speaking of electricity! I've seen these goons for five seconds and I am intrigued:

It looks like they're going to be reoccurring foes. And while the allies are plug/socket themed, these three enemies are wire/plug themed. The purple guy at the front has a stereo plug for his hair piece and a jack for his hand, and their hands are designed based off of fork spade wire connector.

So I'm going with a theory that the friendly residents are generators/guardians of a strong source of magical energy, while the Extension Corps and their affiliates are out to harness/steal that energy.

Then there's who I'm presuming to be the big bad in this game:

He was in the trailer for half a second, so I assume Nintendo is trying to keep him mysterious for now, but from the little I saw of his design two things stuck out to me: He's equipped with what looks to be a stylized pair of electrician pliers, and his hat has a green and red wire sticking out of the top.

So THAT doesn't bode well

Bowser's going to be there too, but I'm not yet sure if he's going to be a hesitant ally, a small-scale villain, or a final boss who takes advantage of the new villain's failures like in Mario & Luigi Dream Team. At this point it could be anything.

I DO like that Princess Peach is having more of an active role! In the past few Mario & Luigi games she's either been captured to move the plot forward (as is tradition), or has been quietly pulling strings from the sidelines to help out, but it'll be fun seeing her running around and exploring with her own group of misfits.

Also!!! The Luigi "L!"!

My main theory is that, every so often, Luigi is going to come up with a new mechanic depending on what we've encountered over the course of the story, and these new mechanics will be used to overcome obstacles and get into secret areas.

Then there's the central hub world!!! Of all the Mario RPGs I've played (two of them) that's usually my favorite aspect: having a main area where you can hoard all the random nonsense you've stumbled across and get a few extra perks. Looks like we're going to have that same thing here, and they aren't going slouch on the "exploration" angle of this game

I'll stop now, but I've got one last quick theory I'm gonna scream about: Apparently "electrical bonding" is the process of connecting multiple conductive components that are not intended to carry a current to a grounding system, so that if something goes wrong (like an electrical surge or a lightning strike) there's a lower risk of someone getting electrocuted.

So maybe Mario and Luigi are NOT meant to be conduits of this sort of bond-power, but they're unwittingly connected to it in order to prevent tragedy and create stability? (I may be looking into it too closely. I am not an electrician, but that's my theory until I see evidence suggesting otherwise.)

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Why Component Speakers Are Worth the Extra Investment

the key differences between coaxial and component speakers. Learn why component speakers provide superior sound quality and are worth the extra investment for audiophiles and music enthusiasts.