One's vehicle often represents the ideal place to take in some uninterrupted performances from a favourite musician or band. For many drivers, the car is the only setting such music can be blasted at any volume desired. Air guitar or dashboard drumming is optional.
Lately, automakers are offering more advanced in-car entertainment technology than ever. If music is a big part of your travels, be sure to check out their latest and greatest next time you're shopping for a new ride.
MP3 CD players are fairly standard, allowing playback of MP3 formatted discs from your home PC. A single MP3 CD can contain hundreds of songs- personalized and organized by artist, date, genre or in any other way the user sees fit.
Some vehicles offer a CD changer, enabling push-button swapping of up to 6 discs. With 6 MP3 CD's loaded, hundreds of hours of playback are always on standby at the driver's fingertips.
High-tech aficionados will appreciate the increasing popularity of hard-drive based audio storage, which allows the contents of a CD to be copied directly into the car's stereo. The in-car hard drive can store thousands of songs, and often includes a connector for easy transfer of music from PC to car using a thumb-drive or memory card.
For the ultimate in listening selection, consider satellite radio. The growth and merger of companies like Sirius and XM has exploded on the mobile entertainment industry- giving listeners a gateway to a world of music, sports, weather and specialty stations. There's something for everybody regardless of their preferences, channels to choose from. A subscription is required, with pricing at around $15 per month. Most automakers include a 3-month subscription with new vehicles.
Unlike FM, on satellite radio, commercials are a rarity. There's a vastly larger music selection, and the signal will stay with you right across the continent- rather than fading away an hour outside of the city limits.
Think of satellite radio as providing the same benefits for your drive as satellite television does for your home: more selection, enhanced content quality, and the ability to tune into just about anything, anytime. The fees are a bargain to some, as opposed to buying CD's or downloading from an online music library and burning the data to a disc.
Want to ensure a fantastic listening experience? Test out some upgraded audio system components on your next new vehicle like high-output speakers or software upgrades like Audio Pilot to ensure your music always sounds fantastic. Most new vehicles can be ordered with high performance audio systems from manufacturers like JBL, Infinity, Harman Kardon, Mark Levinson and Bose- to name a few.
If you're not planning on a new car, a powerful and clean audio system can be installed to your existing model- often making the difference between simply listening to music and really experiencing it.
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Lately, automakers are offering more advanced in-car entertainment technology than ever. If music is a big part of your travels, be sure to check out their latest and greatest next time you're shopping for a new ride.
MP3 CD players are fairly standard, allowing playback of MP3 formatted discs from your home PC. A single MP3 CD can contain hundreds of songs- personalized and organized by artist, date, genre or in any other way the user sees fit.
Some vehicles offer a CD changer, enabling push-button swapping of up to 6 discs. With 6 MP3 CD's loaded, hundreds of hours of playback are always on standby at the driver's fingertips.
High-tech aficionados will appreciate the increasing popularity of hard-drive based audio storage, which allows the contents of a CD to be copied directly into the car's stereo. The in-car hard drive can store thousands of songs, and often includes a connector for easy transfer of music from PC to car using a thumb-drive or memory card.
For the ultimate in listening selection, consider satellite radio. The growth and merger of companies like Sirius and XM has exploded on the mobile entertainment industry- giving listeners a gateway to a world of music, sports, weather and specialty stations. There's something for everybody regardless of their preferences, channels to choose from. A subscription is required, with pricing at around $15 per month. Most automakers include a 3-month subscription with new vehicles.
Unlike FM, on satellite radio, commercials are a rarity. There's a vastly larger music selection, and the signal will stay with you right across the continent- rather than fading away an hour outside of the city limits.
Think of satellite radio as providing the same benefits for your drive as satellite television does for your home: more selection, enhanced content quality, and the ability to tune into just about anything, anytime. The fees are a bargain to some, as opposed to buying CD's or downloading from an online music library and burning the data to a disc.
Want to ensure a fantastic listening experience? Test out some upgraded audio system components on your next new vehicle like high-output speakers or software upgrades like Audio Pilot to ensure your music always sounds fantastic. Most new vehicles can be ordered with high performance audio systems from manufacturers like JBL, Infinity, Harman Kardon, Mark Levinson and Bose- to name a few.
If you're not planning on a new car, a powerful and clean audio system can be installed to your existing model- often making the difference between simply listening to music and really experiencing it.