What options are there for getting better sound quality?
– Depends on the car and how old it is. Usually we recommend to upgrade the radio first. Upgrading from the factory radio usually shows a significant improvement, mostly because having higher powered outputs as well as a better quality DAC. We find that most vehicles from around the mid-2000’s and newer come with some fairly good quality speakers and a new head unit truly wakes them up. Older vehicles typically use cheaper speakers, with a smaller magnet and/or a cheap, some even paper, cone. At that point, it would be highly suggested to replace and upgrade the speakers. In the vehicle is equipped with a factory amplifier, along with their fairly common failure rate as the vehicles age, quality is usually better when the factory amp is bypassed and ran using the built-in amplifier of the new head unit. From there, the ideal setup for sound clarity would be to run a separate amplifier and setting up component speakers with tweeters and crossovers. This is the more expensive way to go,
