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DSP stands for Digital Signal Processing, a very fast form of computation that can be used in many products. Radar detectors, cruise controls, and sound systems all use DSP  chips today.  Let’s talk for a moment about how DSP works in car audio.  Take the Take the great-sounding Audison Thesis speaker. Now, put it in a car. Wherever we install it in a car, it’s not a perfect speaker location. It might be in a door, or it might be in a...

Thanks to the Maestro AR interfaces, Audison AF Forza amplifiers can operate in the same manner – receiving pure, unprocessed sound which has not passed through the OEM amplification-and-processing stage, and integrating all the essential non-entertainment signals required in modern vehicles! The sound quality of an aftermarket head unit, with the integration and design of the OEM infotainment system – yours with AF Forza and Maestro! The installation is performed with integration T-harnesses, for maximum simplicity and efficiency. Many premium...

Some have been overwhelmed with the number of improvements in Audison AF Forza and bit Drive software.  We’ve often heard “where do we start? There are three big areas where Forza moves the category forward: 1 Power. Audison Forza 5-channel amp is now 1000 total watts RMS – over 2X the power! 100×4 at 4Ω, 600×1 @ 2Ω, RMS. The new AF Compact 8-channel is almost double the power of the model it replaces. The other amplifiers have similar increases....

    No category has been more confusing, or more disappointing, to in-car audiophiles than “high-resolution Bluetooth receivers”. Different handsets and different digital media players often deliver different sound-quality results, and it can be difficult to predict those results before the installation. Now, with the Audison B-CON audiophile Bluetooth receiver, you can guarantee performance. Audison B-CON is the first (and the only, at the time of this writing) Bluetooth 5.0® player designed for automotive use that has obtained the “Hi-Res...

Audison has engineered a system of BMW custom fit speakers – a 200 mm shallow-frame under seat woofer, 100 mm midranges with 3-post aluminum cast frames, and Tetelon textile-dome tweeters. The midrange and coaxials are available in both 3-post frame sizes used by BMW and MINI. Connection is plug-and-play. The under-seat woofers are available in both 2Ω and 4Ω values, while the other speakers are 4Ω. The speakers can be used as replacements with OEM amplification, but the best results...

For various reasons, OEM speaker outputs often have a muting protection circuit. Many of us have encountered this sort of muting behavior in OEM systems. Here’s some information about how it works. When the head unit turns on, the outputs are muted. This used to happen when the driver got in the car and turned on the ignition key. Today, it happens earlier – often when the user unlocks the door. This supports the vehicle’s use of the audio system to...

The bit Tune is an advanced measurement tool, and over the years it has evolved a few times, as we have added functions to it.         Some people who tried it years ago – often only to set up a bit Ten or bit One – haven’t ever seen the full feature set available to users today. Read on to learn what the bit Tune 3.1.0.1 SW can do for you.         ACOUSTIC REAL-TIME...

With this article we will understand why Audison Virtuoso 3.0 MPC (Mobile Phase Correction) technology is so important to achieve the highest listening quality in the car cabin. Sound waves have amplitude and phase characteristics. Amplitude is how powerful the wave is. The higher the pressure peaks, the louder the sound is perceived to be. Phase describes the timing of the wave – when the pressure peaks are occurring. Humans can often hear if the phase of the sound wave...

Dear Audison enthusiast, we wish to inform you that a major software and firmware upgrade for Audison bit One HD and bit One HD Virtuoso is available below: Virtuoso 3.0 web page The new release include the following features showing that even if you don’t have a bit Tune, the bit Virtuoso 3.0 gives the user advanced manual and automated tuning capabilities for both amplitude and phase:     – Built-in RTA with target curve support (display, creation, importing) and...

Audison_APM The development of Audison APM is the result of years of research and development into a complex topic, the evaluation of in-car sound quality. Many people in the industry have been talking about measuring acoustic performance without ever having achieved a tangible result up to now. The bit Tune hardware platform implements APM functionalities providing the market as well as industry specialists with a complete tool, enabling two innovative types of analysis which objectively evaluate customized and OEM car...

Audison bit Tune is the auto-calibration system for bit One HD Virtuoso for the setup of basic parameters (time alignment, equalization, levels, etc.), ensuring a correct acoustic result in a very short time. The bit Tune automatic routine also includes the diagnosis of common connection “errors” (channels/phase inversion, no signal from a channel/cable, etc.), to set the specialist free from his “routine” work and allow him to focus on the art of “fine-tuning” while listening.   Audison_bit_Tune   Thanks to...