Alpine Car Audio: Soaring to New Heights in Sound

Alpine car audio is a brand name that brings to mind images of cool cars and great sound systems. In fact, even people who know absolutely nothing about car audio know that Alpine is where to go for top quality products.

That’s because Alpine has a proven track record as one of the most successful car audio companies in the world. They are industry leaders in many different types of car audio and mobile entertainment.

Alpine works on the belief that an integrated platform is the way of the future for car audio. To that end, they are working hard to develop completely integrated or “all-in-one” systems for their customers.

This is hardly surprising, seeing how the Alpine car audio company is a subsidiary of Alps Electric Company, one of the world leaders in computer and electronic parts production.

Alpine Car Audio Basics: Alpine’s seamless integration has lead to some amazing developments in the field of car audio. Aside from great headsets, amplifiers, and speakers, Alpine recently added a new item to the car audio system: 3D navigation.  Known as the ITS, or Intelligent Transportation System, Alpine car audio lets you see where you are and where you are going while you listen to your favourite music on CD, DVD, MP3, or even satellite radio. Additionally, global positioning and mobile data linking are currently on the menu for car audio developers for Alpine.

All of this works by accessing a great telematic system capable of handling music, graphics, and information relevant to the average Alpine enthusiast. Alpine’s top end systems all come with large, easy-to-read headsets that are ready to drop into your car and attach to many other fine car audio products from Alpine.

As time rolls on, this company is hoping to expand into even more platforms. One of these ideas has been the release of the new Alpine iPod attachment.


Alpine Car Audio’s iPod Attachment:  Macintosh computers and Alpine have joined forces to bring the car audio world a great way to access your iPod music files. The KCA-420i is the perfect way to put thousands of songs at your fingertips. With this new attachment, not only will you be able to access the scores of music you may have stored on your iPod, but you can listen to them in Dolby digital sound on your car audio system from Alpine.

Alpine has even gone a step further by adding their trademarked “MediaXpander” technology to the new KCA-420i. MediaXpander is a system developed by Alpine used to restore sound quality from compressed music files such as MP3s. Alpine hopes that this new technology will catch on as a good way to store and play back MP3 files.  “Alpine's exclusive MediaXpander(TM) technology restores lost detail to compressed digital media, bringing essence and life back to the music as the artist had originally intended.” Alpine car audio claimed on a recent press release about the new iPod attachment.

So far, the results look good. Alpine’s iPod attachment and telematic navigation system has been well received by the car audio crowd. If you are into car audio at all, or are simply a fan of good quality music, you should check out an Alpine dealer. They may have exactly what you need.