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The Difference Between Lumens, Lux and Candela

May 18, 2025 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

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When it comes to upgrading your vehicle’s lighting, a clear understanding of lumens, lux and candela is not just beneficial, it’s crucial. Just like some less scrupulous car audio amplifier, speaker and subwoofer manufacturers, automotive lighting manufacturers often manipulate specifications. This is evident when you browse through platforms like Amazon, AliExpress or Temu, where you’ll […]

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Product Spotlight: Wet Sounds REV 12 HD Tower Speaker

May 6, 2025 By Staff Leave a Comment

Wet Sounds REV 12 HD

When it comes to entertainment on the water, a wakeboard boat equipped with Wet Sounds REV 12 HD tower speakers is hard to beat. Whether you’re on skis or a board, having great-sounding tunes to jam to makes an afternoon ten times better. Let’s check out what makes these amazing tower speakers from California Car […]

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Headlight Bulb Upgrades: Part 5: Electrical Interference

September 8, 2024 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

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As we continue our series on headlight bulb upgrades, it’s time to discuss electrical interference. Just as in the previous article on spectral content, this is an issue that very few retailers or manufacturers check for or discuss. While these considerations don’t affect the performance of your lighting system, they can significantly affect the performance […]

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Headlight Bulb Upgrades: Part 4 – Headlight Bulb Type and Object Illumination

August 25, 2024 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

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We’ve watched hundreds of videos on YouTube and read dozens of articles on headlight upgrades, yet we’ve never seen anybody discuss how different bulb types light up different colored objects. We aren’t discussing the headlight bulbs’ brightness or the beam pattern. Halogen, HID and LED bulbs output different wavelengths of energy. We see objects when […]

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Headlight Bulb Upgrades: Part 3: Beam Patterns

August 18, 2024 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

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We are back with the third article in our series about headlight bulb upgrades. In the first article, we discussed the many different headlight bulb designs and how they’ve advanced over the last century. The second article in the series explained the terminology used when discussing light sources. How a light assembly projects light onto […]

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Automotive Headlight Upgrades – Part 2: Terminology

July 28, 2024 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

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We talked about headlight bulb styles in the first part of our series on understanding headlight upgrades. In this article, we will briefly explain relevant light terminology to help you understand what lumens, lux, candela and watts mean. Knowing what these terms mean will help you make better bulb upgrade choices – and you’ll be […]

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Automotive Headlight Upgrades – Part 1: Technologies

July 7, 2024 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

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If you pay attention, you’ll see cars and trucks on the road with white, yellow, blue and even purple headlight bulbs. Whether chosen for style or performance, hundreds, if not thousands, of options are available to upgrade the lighting on your car, truck or motorcycle. Some replacement bulbs look neat, some are brighter, some have […]

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Understanding Light Color and Illumination

July 23, 2023 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

Understanding Light Color and Illumination

We took our first look at measuring light sources a while back as our first step toward understanding the differences in automotive headlight options. In this article, we’ll provide a practical demonstration of why it’s crucial for the lighting on your car, truck, motorcycle, ATV or side-by-side to emit light that covers the entire color […]

Filed Under: ARTICLES, Car Audio, Lighting

Understanding the Science Behind Automotive Headlight Bulb Colors

May 21, 2023 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

Understanding the Science Behind Automotive Headlight Bulb Colors

When it comes to lighting the road in front of your car or truck at night, most enthusiasts focus on light intensity instead of headlight bulb color. It’s straightforward to see the difference between yellowish light produced by incandescent halogen bulbs and the white/blue output of HID or LED bulbs. The science behind these light […]

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Upgrades for Your Chevrolet Suburban, Tahoe and GMC Yukon

September 18, 2022 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

Upgrades for Your Chevrolet Suburban Tahoe and GMC Yukon

As some of the largest people-movers on the road, the GMC Yukon and the Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe can benefit from the countless upgrades that are available for them. Whether you want a subtle improvement in audio system performance with a custom-fit subwoofer solution or you want to shake the paint off the walls with […]

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CarPlay Sound Quality: Wired vs. Wireless—Which Is Better?

July 6, 2025 By BestCarAudio.com Leave a Comment

A reader requested that we compare the sound quality performance of wired and wireless Apple CarPlay. This is a great … [Read More...]

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Five Essential Car Audio Maintenance Tips

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