By Hugo Valle

Every car audio enthusiast wants to be able to show their unique audio system creation with pride, so ensuring that all the components selected are a good match with each other, is one of the most important things when planning a system design. It is a well know fact that as reputable a car audio manufacturers can be, they are almost never able to produce an all inclusive top of the line set of audio components, which makes it so that you almost always end up needed to buy different brand components for your system.

I personally am a great fan of Alpine receivers, and I believe they do an excellent job at breaking ground in new technologies or improve on existing ones, but if I was to design a new audio system for my car, I probably would not go with Alpine speaker. I believe that there is quite a few other companies out there that produce excellent lines of speakers which nicely complement the refined sound that alpine is known for.

To me, the important element when selecting components is to not vary too much in the amount of brands used, and this is something that can be easily achieved by grouping all the like components into one brand and end up with 3 or 4 different brands of components altogether in the final design.

To achieve this, after having chosen a receiver you are happy with, I would continue with selecting the speakers, all of the same brand. This will not only reduce the number of brands implemented in the system, but will also ensure that the quality of the sound in the car will be uniform. The next step should be to see if the speaker manufacturer also produces a good quality subwoofer. If they do, this will help to reduce the number of brands. The next task would be selecting the amp. If you are lucky, you might find that the same company produces the desired quality in amp design. If they don’t, at least you tried.

My belief is that the fewer the chances for component mismatch the greater the chances that you’ll end up with that great sound that you envisioned when embarking on the all important audio system upgrade for your vehicle. Good luck and enjoy the process.

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