The Car Stereo Cookbook | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Rumreich
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0070580839
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.277
UPC: 639785306542
EAN: 9780070580831
ASIN: 0070580839
Publication Date: August 1, 1998
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Product Description
Rap, reggae, rock, or Rachmaninoff -- if you yearn for sound in your car that will make your friends drool, this book has your answers. Whether you want to pulsate the pavement or simply enjoy top-level clarity and music reproduction, this book will show you how to plan your design, choose your components, install them optimally and save a lot of money! Unlike books that cover only specific systems, the Cookbook shows you how to customize. With the Cookbook, your system will fit your tastes, your budget, and your car or truck. Organized by component type, the Cookbook clearly shows you how to achieve good imaging; upgrade premium factory sound systems such as Delco/Bose and Ford/JBL; get more amp power for your money; properly set amplifier gains; install and set up an equalizer with or without a real-time analyzer; interface a CD changer; pick the right power line capacitors, speaker wire, patch cables, and sound-deadening devices; avoid common automotive noise problems; and a lot more! Featuring guidance on the right specialty tools and step-by-step instructions for difficult procedures, The Car Stereo Cookbook makes sure that the special sound you've imagined in your head becomes the sound you hear in your car!
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Here is a fully updated and revised version of the "drive away" bestseller -- showing readers how to put their own super sound system on wheels. Written by a master of audio electronics, this second edition includes all new information on mobile video, satellite radio, MP3 and WMA, digital broadcast radio, 5.1 channel sound, and other current developments. The Car Stereo Cookbook shows readers how to plan their design, choose components, install them otimally -- and save a lot of money. Unlike books that cover only specific systems, the Cookbook tells readers how to customize and mix and match according to taste, budget, and vehicle.
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 Good information, excellent diagrams and pictures January 20, 2008
I started this book with a mild understanding of car stereo's and installation and by the time I was done I was customizing my own stereo with ease. Highly recommended for anyone with a desire for good sound in there vehicle a lot of easy tricks that make a whole lot of difference
 Excellent cookbook for car stereo installation January 19, 2008
This book provides excellent background info, good design criteria, and photos illustrating similar installations to those discussed in the different sections. I found the book quite helpful.
 Make sure you get the right edition of this book. July 3, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I ordered this book from one of the Amazon partners and received the 1998 edition of the book.
Let me just say that A LOT has happened on the car audio scene since 1998, like: Video, multi-channel audio, navigation systems, rear-view cameras, DVD Video, iPod, MP3, Dolby Digital 5.1, DVD-Audio, etc.
In other words, the 1998 edition is not even a good doorstop at this point.
Sure, the basics of pulling cables, using the correct connectors and speaker installation is still useable, but to read about the wonderful opportunity of adding a CD changer or replacing a factory tape deck with a CD head unit is a bit out of date.
 How much did the manufacturers pay for this ad? March 20, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've started a car audio retail business with my brother. He's the technical guy, and I'm the business guy (working on my MBA now). I thought that learning a lot more about the technical aspect of the business could be nothing but good for me, so I picked up this book (the only book on car audio that Border's carried). The book is organized like this:
1) Here's an audio problem
2) Here's a single componant from a single manufacturer that will address the problem.
Instead of telling *you* how to fix or avoid the problem, you get to read whatever the top technology was 4 years ago to address it. As a previous review pointed out, Crutchfield is also a big theme in the book (don't know what speakers fit your car? Go to Crutchfield.com and they'll tell you! God forbid you measure the opening.).
The best advise I got from this book was to hire a guy to create a PHP search database on my company's website to mirror what Crutchfield does, so my customers, too, can search for what specific componants fit their cars. I guess that was helpful.
Jack of all trades...master of none December 21, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I took a pretty optimistic approach when reading this book, waiting for the meaty stuff to begin...i was still waiting when i got to the index!
It's a pretty good book if you've got a basic understanding of how to wire the stereo components, and what you want to achieve by modifying your stock car audio system. But if you're looking for specific information of how best to use T/S parameters for desigining the optimum enclosure for your new sub - or choosing one that best meets your desired application, then I dont think i'd worry too much about this book. There's some graphs and tables in there that will point you in the right direction in terms of enclosure design/size/style but dont expect much more than that.
In summary, if your the sort of person happy to accept what you're told with out additional inquiry then this book will suffice. Otherwise, you'll need something more basic to provide more definitions, and then once you've got the hang of that, you'll be needing something much more complex to test your new skills. Overall an ok read, but this book will never make it to 'workshop reference' status.
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