So you are thinking of installing some Infinity car speakers. It’s not the easiest thing to do, especially if you haven’t tried it before, so how can you guarantee you will get the best out of them? Here are a few things to think about before you start the job.

The first thing to do is to make sure you are using the right Infinity car amplifier otherwise you may find you continuously blow your speakers. This is not a problem with the manufacturer but rather you the user.

Car audio speakers will blow for two reasons. The first most people understand i.e. you have pumped too much power into them. So if yours are rated at 200 watts and you are pumping 500 watts into them, what do you expect to happen?

The second reason they could be blowing is down to your amplifier not being strong enough. Let’s use an extreme example. Say you were using a 100 watt amp with 1000 watt speakers. You like listening to your CDs at 500 watts. Your amp will work to provide you with the music but it will be distorted. By the time your human ear has picked up on this distortion the damage will have been done and your speakers will blow out.

This is quite a common problem. As people can hear the music playing they don’t think it is an issue to use a car amplifier with less wattage than their speakers. When the latter keep blowing they blame the technology. If this is happening to you, upgrade your amp and at the same time get your alternator checked to make sure it is strong enough to support the amplifier. If your lights dim when you play your stereo, that is your alternators way of telling you there is an issue!

Your car battery wasn’t designed to run your in-car stereo system so if you have parked up you still need to have the engine on while using your new Infinity car speakers.