Audio

Car audio for New Zealand vehicles from DB Drive and Mongoose, covering speakers, amplifiers, subwoofers and sound deadening.

DB Drive X-Series speakers run from 5.25 inch and 6.5 inch two-way through to 6x9 three-way and 6.5 inch component sets. Amplifiers are Class D in two-channel, four-channel and mono configurations, so you can run a full set of speakers or drive a subwoofer. The 8 inch underseat active subwoofer is the easy option where boot space is not available.

Two things are worth getting right. Match amplifier RMS power to speaker RMS power rather than peak figures, and add Q-Mat sound deadening to the doors before you blame the speakers. Panel resonance and road noise account for a lot of what people think is poor speaker performance.