The best equipment in the world will still sound terrible if you have poorly installed, or below average quality speakers. Here are some tips to get the most out of your components:

• Speaker placement

• Speaker concepts

• Speaker limitations

• Subwoofer enclosure types

• Subwoofer enclosure choice

• Subwoofer enclosure placement

• Subwoofer design instructions

• Subwoofer design Information

Selected chapters Secrets of Car Audio book:

• Chapter 1 - A trip to the stereo store

• Chapter 2 - Knowledge is Power

• Chapter 3 - Three men digging

• Chapter 4 - Dispelling the Myths

• Chapter 5 - A sample system

Tutorial for Car Audio Installers.

Boxing guide to help you build great sounding subwoofer enclosures:

• Section 1
• Section 2
• Section 3
• Section 4

  • CAD Drawings Introduction

  • SS-8 Enclosure designs

  • SS-10R Enclosure designs

  • SS-12R Enclosure designs

  • GR-8 Enclosure designs

  • GR-10 Enclosure designs

  • GR-12 Enclosure designs

  • GR-15 Enclosure designs

  • SPL10 Enclosure designs

  • SPL12 Enclosure designs

  • SPL15 Enclosure designs

  • SPL160 Enclosure designs

  • GR-15mkII Enclosure designs

  • USA8 Enclosure designs

  • USA10 Enclosure designs

  • USA12 Enclosure designs

  • USA15 Enclosure designs

  • RUBICON10 Enclosure designs

  • RUBICON12 Enclosure designs

  • RUBICON15 Enclosure designs

  • SPL10N Enclosure designs

  • SPL12N Enclosure designs

  • SPL15N Enclosure designs

  • SPL170 Enclosure designs

  • SPLMULE Enclosure designs

  • EXACT10 Enclosure designs

  • EXACT12 Enclosure designs

Tutorials & Reprinted Published Articles from Rane:

Fundamentals

• Signal Processing Fundamentals
• Audio Specifications
• Environmental Effects on the Speed of Sound Dennis Bohn, AES (600k)
• Accelerated Slope Tone Control Equalizers Dennis Bohn, AES (600k)
• Digital Dharma of Audio A/D Converters
• Unity Gain and Impedance Matching: Strange Bedfellows
• Setting Sound System Level Controls
• Practical Line Driving Current Requirements
• Constant-Voltage Audio Distribution Systems
• Power Amp Clipping and It's Effects on Loudspeakers (150k)
• The Bewildering Wilderness (of Audio Standards) Dennis Bohn, S&VC (800k)
• Superior Audio Requires Fixed-Point DSPs

Wiring, Interconnection & Grounding

• Grounding and Shielding Audio Devices
• Grounding and Shielding Computer-Controlled Audio Devices Steven Macatee, AES (100k)
• Sound System Interconnection (RaneNote 110)
• System Problems and Equipment Manufacturers Bill Whitlock, Systems Contractor News (130k)
• Why Not Wye?

Equalizers

• Constant-Q Graphic Equalizers
• Constant-Q Graphic Equalizers Dennis Bohn, AES (500k)
• Operator Adjustable Equalizers
• Exposing Equalizer Mythology
• Perfect-Q, the Next Step in Graphic Equalizers

Active Crossovers

• A 4th-Order State Variable Filter for Linkwitz-Riley Crossover Designs Dennis Bohn, AES (1.4M)
• Linkwitz-Riley Crossovers
• Linkwitz-Riley Crossovers up to 8th-Order: An Overview
• A Bessel Filter Crossover and Its Relation to Others

Dynamics Processors: Compressors, Limiters, Expanders & Gates

• The DC 24 Users Guide
• Good Dynamics Processing
• Limiters Unlimited
• Power Amp Clipping and It's Effects on Loudspeakers

General Applications

• Cost Effective Noise Masking Systems
• Mix-Minus Speech Reinforcement with Conferencing
• Controlling Audio Systems with ActiveX Controls
• Emerging Standards for Networked Audio Systems
• High Quality Low Voltage Audio
• Interfacing AES3 and S/PDIF
• Interfacing Audio and POTS

Product-Specific Applications

• Understanding Headphone Power Requirements
• Controlling Audio Systems with ActiveX
• DC Powering RAP (100k)
• SM 26B Swiss Army Mixer (170k)
• Microphones for the AP 13 (100k)
• Crossovers, Equalizers and Compressors (350k) Dennis Bohn, Live Sound International
• Using a Control System with an SRM 66 (150k)
• Using SR 1Ls with other Rane Products (300k)
• Advanced Applications for the Ingenious SRM 66 and SR 1L (200k)