Hello,

Yes, Car Audio is rated with power. Unfortunately, the mother nature love irony. Higher and higher power comes with higher noise level. And, personally, I don't want to eat/listen more low quality food/sounds just because I have more.

After all, power has to come from somewhere and car batteries are not that ... all mighty.

I would build LM3886 and other GainClone and power car audio with some switching power supply at mildly higher voltage. I think it sounds decent.

Tomo One!

P.S. I am not Mr. Underson. I am Tomo! (You know the train station fight. That was so rediculous; it was awesome. Don't spoil but tell me details. )

I think about 250-300 watts would be good for car audio. Enough so you can blow things away, but not so loud as to distort. Besides, IMO, a car engine is music on it's own

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Crutchfield sells .5 and 1 farad capacitors to solve that problem. Quite expensive, though. I'd much sooner just get one from Mouser or something. What really cracks me up is their "Deluxe" model that has a LED display on top with the current voltage. What does it matter? And when are you going to be digging through your audio cables and equipment while listening to music?!

(-:Stephonovich

Can you imagine the directions on a 1F car audio cap?
"Make SURE you have the polarity correct"

Okay, all done... let's fire it up and see how it sounds!

1 farad would be fun...
I can well imagine Joe Sixpack hooking it up to power his duh!-m-bass subs, and hooking it up wrong. I wonder how much of the car it would take out with it?
Ah yes, if you think 1 farad is insane... http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/capexpt.html


(-:Stephonovich