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You might own an older car with an outdated stereo system and head unit to boot, and if your vehicle was manufactured before 2012, chances are good that an auxiliary input is all you have to go by when connecting your phone. It was only very recently that bottom-trim vehicles started introducing Bluetooth as an inbuilt feature of the head unit. Vehicles that lack this feature will, of course, have limited means of supporting wireless music or call playback, and this is where you’ll enlist the assistance of a Bluetooth in-car speakerphone. [Read more…]

If you’re like most folks, you’ve probably noticed the speakers in your car and loosely believed that only a professional should think about replacing them. After all, what kind of specs do they even list for these accessories? You never see them when you walk into most stores, and you might not catch yourself wandering back to the corner where they sell them. If we’re totally wrong about you, well, this article is no less for you than the common not-quite-audiophilic individual. [Read more…]

Have you ever actually stopped to think about the media deck (typically called a head unit but sometimes referred to as the radio or stereo) in your car? It can, in fact, be swapped out if you find that the stock unit is wanting. It’s a task that almost anyone can carry out with a little quality time on YouTube and a few tools, but we’re not here to tell you about that. This article will focus on which offering you should invest in for your car based on the software, hardware and innate features in addition to general quirks and reported issues with each. The nine entries on this list were among the best we found, so get ready to find yours here. [Read more…]