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A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Car Audio Basics
The building blocks of a system — vehicle audio and the head unit, the amplifier and subwoofer, loudspeakers and voice coils, and the car battery that powers it all.
8 entriesThe Science of Sound
How sound works and how we hear it — the nature of sound itself, microphones and vacuum tubes, tuning forks and the oscilloscope, the human ear, and the instruments that make music.
7 entriesSpeakers & Enclosures
Turning a signal into sound you can feel — loudspeakers and subwoofers, the enclosures and horns that shape their output, voice coils, studio monitors, and the soundbar.
7 entriesInstall & Electronics
Wiring it all together — amplifiers and capacitors, transistors and printed circuit boards, potentiometers and fuses, soldering, and the connectors that link every component.
8 entries