I know people who devote time, effort and oodles of money to beef-up their car’s audio systems.  I can’t blame them.  The after market is certainly fueling this with new models of sound amplifies, controls boxes with parametric equalizers and exotic speakers that can rival home systems, to attract car owners into investing to make ...

Working on your laptop PC while on the road can be a great help when you have something urgent to attend to.  I often find myself doing that when commuting in between offices while at work. You certainly don’t want to do this if you do the driving.  This is best reserved to people who are driven.  I saw a brochure on the 7-series ...

I was pleasantly surprised to get into a new cab the other day and experience something I don’t normally get when commuting to the office.  That’s full-bodied road music.  The cab drive was kind enough to tell me that the previous owner of the cab he was driving was an audio freak, installing 12-inch subwoofers at and a 100-watt ...

The multichannel surround sound is already a decade old as far as home entertainment is concerned.  It’s about as old as the DVD that has made all that possible. And over the last few years, I’ve seen an emerging interest in doing the same for the small space inside cars.  Vans and SUVs might be a good place to start but I ...

If they can put in-seat videos in a plane, why not on the ground?  An excellent idea.  Why not?  Just about all the amenities you get when flying can be made available on the road.  Many luxury cars and SUVs already sport one for the back seats. With the craze going for mpeg4 videos you load on ipods, it shouldn’t be difficult building that the video facility in vehicles.  You have the mp3 sounds replacing much of the CDs, so the next step is ...