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EchoMaster Claims Unique Camera
EchoMaster, a brand of AAMP Global, announced a Third Brake Light Camera kit that provides three viewing angles...
Kenwood, Alpine Report Q1 Results
Alps Alpine reported a soft first quarter with net sales in its automotive infotainment segment (which we believe...
Audiofrog Launches Car Audio ‘University’
Audiofrog, a boutique car audio company founded by Andy Wehmeyer, will launch a "university" for creating high end...
NAV-TV To Distribute New Brand in USA
NAV-TV is partnering with a Russian-based high tech alarm company to act as its exclusive distributor in the...
Industry Braces for Tariff on Speakers
With President Trump declaring he will launch new 10 percent tariffs on more Chinese goods (including speakers), car...
Metra Ships Stop/Start Override
Metra Electronics is shipping a new interface that automatically disengages the STOP/START engine feature on specific vehicles. The...
New Supplier for 12 Volt Demo Displays
AudioStak Interactive, the company that supplied switching systems for AVIDWORX, is now offering full retail display demo board...
Here’s the New 12 Volt Distributor
Here is some information on GoFast Solutions, the Connecticut-based distributor, which just purchased the mobile electronics division of...
Rockford Claims First OEM System for a UTV
Rockford Fosgate said it has partnered with Polaris to built the first factory system for a UTV (Utility...
Distributor Exits 12 Volt
MRI, a Northeast car and home audio distributor has spun off its car audio division and sold it...
Orca Teams With Distributor Group
Orca Design and Manufacturing announced it will offer its Illusion Audio, and Black Hole tape brands, plus some...
New Powerful Bose System
Bose announced what it calls its "most powerful and highest performing sound system ever for a sports car."...
American Bass Enters New Category
American Bass for the first time in decades, is expanding into a new category. The car audio speaker...
12 Volt Rock Stars Team Up on Sound Damping
A new brand of sound damping products called SoundShield has launched by John Schwartz of Perfectionist Auto Sound...
The Unusual Case of the Alpine Deck
Instead of the usual battle to keep prices as low as possible, dealers are marking up price tags...
How to Open a Car Audio Shop
An award-winning retailer and 12 volt trainer will offer a class next year on how to set up...
Nakamichi Brand Returns to US
The Nakamichi brand is returning to the US with a line of car audio products that include a...
Top Multimedia Deck So Far 2019
Below are the top 5 aftermarket AV/receivers (with or without navigation) in the U.S. based on dollar sales...
Wow. Hottest CE Product of 2019
The consumer tech category that will see the greatest jump in sales this year, according to new data...
New Sound Damping Startup
SQL Audio is a new sound damping company owned by two brothers, Scott and Alex Hirst, that is...