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Should Cars Have High End Audio Cables

For years it has been well understood in homeused as the ground return path. This allows
audio that cables can have a tremendousnoise from car components such as the
impact on a sound system, both good and bad.alternator to be inducted into the audio
Choose the right cables and you can expect acables via EMI. In terms of RFI, unless
system to come to life. Choose poorlyproper shielding is used, the longer cables
designed cables, and you may forever bein cars will act as antennas and pull in more
wondering why you can't get your system tonoise. A third source of noise in a vehicle
come  to  life.is vibration. This is of course far worse in
a vehicle than in a home system. Pear Cable
Car audio however, has been a differentis the first company to bring out a car audio
story. While many companies still offercable that virtually eliminates the noise
coaxial interconnect cables, most have comecaused by cable vibration. The TRIBODeadÔ
to realize that the basic twisted pair designtechnology present in the Comice Silver
offers far better noise rejection in aInterconnect is an electrically conductive
vehicle. And then... Nothing. That's it.plastic layer that prevents static electrical
Innovation seems to have hit a brick wall atcharges, caused by vibration, from building
the shielded twisted pair interconnect in carup  in  the  cable.
audio. This begs the question; Should Cars
Have  High  End  Audio  Cables?- Is Quality Sound Just for Home Audio or
does  it  have  a  Place  in  Car  Audio Too?
To begin with, let's briefly go back to home
audio. After many years of fighting an uphillSome people feel that a car audio sound
battle, the idea that cables make asystem will never be as good as a home audio
difference has become a mainstream ideologysystem, and therefore high fidelity cables
amongst audiophiles. But it isn't justare a waste of money in a car. This is a
audiophiles who can hear the difference. Infaulty conclusion. The experience of
fact, in our own testing, the differences canlistening to music in your vehicle while
be heard by just about anybody, even on verydriving down the highway is unique and cannot
modest audio systems. It just takes abe replicated in the home audio environment.
willingness to discard any preconceivedThe bottom line here is that many people
notions  and  actually  listen to some music.spend more time listening to their car audio
system than their home system, and they want
So, if cables make a difference in homeit to be the best that it can be. The
audio, is there a reason why it shouldn'tcharacteristics of bad audio cables
matter in car audio? The quick answer is no.(listening fatigue, poor realism, overly
The following outlines some of the reasonsbright treble, or general noise) will all
why cables matter just as much, if not more,still be audible in a car audio system. Just
in  car  audio.like home audio, the wrong cables in your
vehicle  will  kill the listening experience.
Many people are under the impression that car
audio uses shorter cables than home audio,At the end of the day, many people want
and therefore does not need to bother withquality sound in their vehicles. If you are
high fidelity cables. This is completelyinstalling an aftermarket system in your
incorrect. While the typical interconnectvehicle and you care about sound quality, you
length in a home audio system is about 1need to care about cables. If you are only
meter, vehicles will frequently use 5 or 6interested in having the loudest car, without
meter interconnects to put amplifiers in theregards to accuracy, then high fidelity audio
trunk. In terms of speaker cables, car audiocables probably aren't for you. Otherwise, it
almost always uses cables longer than the 6-8simply doesn't make sense to shell out good
feet  used  in  most  home  audio  setups.money on amplifiers and speakers, only to
hook it all up with mediocre wire. Car audio
Vehicles represent a far more challengingenthusiasts are every bit as serious as home
environment for cables than home audioaudio enthusiasts, and now there is finally a
systems. Two typical sources of noise incable company that is serious about serving
cables are Electro-Magnetic Interferencetheir  needs.
(EMI) and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI).
In vehicles, the entire chassis is frequentlyArticle written by Adam Blake.



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