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Alpine Intros Halo Sub Enclosures
Alpine Electronics is offering for the first time a full line of pre-loaded subwoofer enclosures. The Halo enclosures...
Alpine Intros Wireless Hi-Res DSP
Alpine Electronics is launching a new wireless digital signal processor (DSP) that processes in Hi-Res Audio, up to...
Pioneer and Metra in New Collaboration
Metra Electronics showed at CES a new line of HVAC and other interfaces, specifically for Pioneer radios. The...
Harman Returns to DSP Market
Following its ground-breaking MS-8 digital signal processor/amplifier, off the market for six or seven years now, Harman is...
Are Tariffs Hurting 12 Volt?
On Wednesday, President Trump signed a partial truce in the trade war with China leading to changes in...
Bose To Close All Retail Stores
Bose will close all of its retail stores in North America as well as Europe, Japan and Australia,...
Pioneer Decks to Work with K40 Radar
Five new Pioneer Electronics NEX decks will work with two K40 radar detectors, when used with an optional...
Top 12 Volt Products of CES
The top car radios and 12 volt products at CES last week, based on clicks on CEoutlook stories,...
Directed to Ship SMARTKEY This Summer
Directed will ship this summer a SMARTKEY system that eliminates the need to carry a car key. Its...
Panasonic and Klipsch to Create Car Audiophile Systems
Klipsch is entering the OEM car audio market in a collaboration with Panasonic Automotive. At CES, Klipsch, a...
One of Alpine’s First Dashcams Works With its Radios
Alpine Electronics announced its first dashcams at CES, including one model that can work with Alpine radios. The...
Pioneer, Boss Get an Alexa First
Have you noticed that nearly all the car radios with Alexa voice control are single DIN? At CES,...
Directed Shows Next Phase of Car Security
Directed is showing what it calls "the future of security"-- live 4G surveillance of the car. It will...
JVC Intros Two Advanced AV Receivers
JVC Mobile Entertainment is introducing two all wireless AV receivers that, like new Kenwood eXcelon Reference decks, allow...
Sirius Intros First Aftermarket 360L Receiver
SiriusXM introduced its first 360L car receiver for the aftermarket. With the new 360L service, drivers get on-demand...
Kenwood, JVC Join Large Screen Radio Craze
Kenwood Electronics and JVC Mobile are showing at CES 2020, 10-inch radio models, joining a sweeping trend here...
Alpine Intros 11-Inch Deck
Alpine kicked off 2020 by showing at CES the largest radio screen from a top tier supplier. The...
New ‘Stack’ Amp From Alpine
Alpine Electronics is adding a second mini amplifier to its PowerStack series designed to "stack" behind Alpine's popular...
Pioneer Intros 9 & 10 Inch Floating Radios
At CES today, Pioneer Electronics is debuting new floating radios in its NEX line including a 10.1-inch model...
Kenwood Radios Feature Hi-Res Streaming
New Kenwood radios will now allow Hi-Res Audio streaming over Bluetooth from select smartphones. Kenwood is adding a...