Creating the Immersive Automotive Audio Experience (Download)

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From car audio’s fledgling beginnings in the 1930s as a simple AM in-dash noise source to today’s fully immersive, multi-speaker, hundreds (even thousands) of watt theater-like environment, it’s been a remarkable journey.

Early high-end automotive audio was a niche market driven by a handful of audiophiles seeking to bring a much better sound experience to the wheeled environment. Eventually, as audio technology advanced, the niche audio market quickly adopted it. Today, nearly entry-level vehicles boast some form of premium audio environment.