Car audio: Digital Power Station promises improvements

There is hope for you audiophilists: the Digital Power Station, a sound processing technique that squeezes sophisticated high-quality audio out of even cheap speakers. JVC brings this to market.

The Digital Power Station adapts intelligently to music to give even cheap speakers a full, robust sound and compensate for the deficiencies of the listening space. Bongiovi built an analog device to produce the same effect, but it was the size of a refrigerator. So he turned to Glenn Zelniker, a specialist in digital signal processing, to develop a chip to do the same thing.

The chip is programmed specifically for each car model, taking into account the characteristics of its speakers and interior. Bongiovi demonstrated the chip on the standard speakers for a Ford Focus, which produced radically different sound quality with the Digital Power Station chip engaged. The sound reportedly swelled to give an impression of space, and the bass was rich and distortion-free, thanks to the chip synchronizing all speakers to act as one "virtual subwoofer." Stereos with the chip installed will cost $700 to $1,000 depending on the make of the car.

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Source: Techno Ride

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