What do audiophiles do in their cars?

Taxi customers always appreciate the purple Fuse upgrade to the Benz supplied HK audio system , they don’t care for the colored magic stones nicking up their flight case luggage in the trunk….

The Morgan has a wood fiber wizzer  cone widebander with a leather surround, very organic timbre 

In my Yugo I dare not turn on the transistor radio that I carry with me (none in the car): I need to listen constantly and carefully to see if anything else falls off while I'm driving along, as well as for more strange sounds from the engine block.

I used to manage one of the highest end car audio store in Los Angeles (Santa Monica, to be exact). We used to do custom sub enclosures, custom enclosures for mids and tweets in doors, custom amp racks, etc, etc.

For cars, we had some really good sounding systems. But let me emphasize, FOR CARS. No matter how good they sounded, even the best did not get close to the kind of sound that can be achieved in the home.

No real imaging, no soundstage, too much low level details lost in the ambient noise (even the quietist cars have about a 65 db ambient noise level, homes are under 40 db).

So, I couldn’t really care less how good my car system is. I don’t do any serious listening in my car anyway.

Stream Tidal via Android with USB Pro driver through an Audio Quest Cobalt Dragonfly on my factory system

Lots of people want to know what aftermarket speakers and amp I've installed

I'll A/B compare songs from Sirius XM and Tidal with the Dragonfly and Tidal without the Dragonfly - big improvement in sound quality that surprises my friends and family

The Dragonfly is the secret sauce and differentiator, the Cobalt version with USB Pro driver does full MQA