FOUR MASTERS to showcase Italian audio technology at Auto Italia. Visitors to this stunning event held at Brooklands on April 30th for Italian car enthusiasts will be treated this year to a stunning demonstration of just how good a car audio system can sound even in a high performance sports car. The car, a Ferrari 355 will feature Hertz Mille speakers from Italian high-end audio manufacturer Elettromedia. These speakers have already won many industry plaudits and pull together many radical technologies used in even higher end equipment sold under sister brand, Audison.
FOUR MASTERS have a growing reputation for providing the finest equipment available into some of the best vehicles on the road and are able to find sensible solutions for any vehicle without affecting the integrity of the vehicle. Furthermore, their work can be completely undone and the vehicle returned to stock condition for onward sale at a later date. With a 3-year national warranty offered as standard and an unrivalled 21-day no quibble money back guarantee - it makes perfect sense for any music lover on the move to take their treasured vehicle to a FOUR MASTER for five star treatment.
This particular vehicle and installation is to be featured along with many other stunning examples of mobile audio solutions in the forthcoming second issue of the unique Driving Sounds Magazine - written by car audio enthusiasts, the magazine attempts to portray the emotion and enjoyment provided by high quality audio in the car without reverting to technical jargon or losing the reader in performance figures. Instead it simply reports on the results enjoyed by some of the hundreds of satisfied customers of the FOUR MASTER network who enjoy driving whilst benefitting from high quality audio.
You can sign up for a free of charge copy of this high quality publication either at the show or by clicking here. Alternatively, call 0800 652 5125 or visit www.fourcars.co.uk
Treat your car to great sound with Skinz sound deadening. A car may seem a strange place to listen to beautiful hi-fi but when you have experienced sitting room quality audio in a car, you will never go back to that awful squawk-box fitted by the vehicle manufacturer. A well installed system begins with comprehensive sound damping and acoustic treatment where your speakers are to be positioned. The sound from a speaker is projected forward but an inescapable result of its construction means that an equal amount of sound is generated out of the rear and this proves a severe impediment to the performance of the speaker. Reflected sound from a door panel causes cone distortion which can destroy the clarity and precision of each speaker.
But, almost worse is if the surface from which the sound is reflected has it’s own resonance, you can easily create frequency distortion which will cancel out or overly boost certain frequencies resulting in an uneven frequency response. So, if you want to get the best from your system it is wise to have an expert apply some sound treatment to your door panels and sometimes behind your dashboard, under the carpets and in the roof!.
FOUR MASTERS use Skinz sound treatment products as they are designed to optimise speaker performance. Skinz has three elements the first being a 3-layer membrane of aluminium and bituminous rubber. This is adhered to any potentially reflective surface in order to kill resonant frequencies. The next element is called wave diffuser which looks a little like the inside of an egg box but is made of a dense foam. This diffuses the output from the rear of your speaker before it hits the now damped surface behind, it then has a further diffusing effect on any residual sound that is reflected. The final element is called moisture guard and this is a coarser open cell foam which is transparent to sound but catches any water particles which may be projected toward the rear of the speaker or may seep in through leaking window rubbers for instance.
The application of Skinz can boost the performance of your speakers by a significant, audible amount and ultimately ensures you get better value for money from your equipment.
Contact a FOUR MASTER now and ask for the Skinz treatment or call 0800 652 5125.
FOUR MASTERS introduce perfection with new Hertz Mille. Car Audio is only ever as good as the speakers you use. Most digital audio sources are capable of producing near Hi-fi quality these days and the difference between them in audio quality terms is hard to discern in the hostile listening environment of the average car. However, once the car has been treated for sound, including Skinz Sound deadening and careful speaker placement, you can start to really enjoy music as it is meant to be heard.
The revelation of quality listening on the move is only, however, completed when good quality equipment is installed. FOUR MASTERS are fortunate to have exclusive access to the finest European car audio products available. Brand new Hertz Mille is a prime example of the care and passion that goes into creating great car audio. So what makes them so special? All products from Hertz are designed and developed in Italy. Products are designed using state of the art computer modelling techniques and then subjected to exhaustive listening tests and are only ever put into production once the goal of uncompromised sound is achieved.
The application of new technologies starts at the very high-end but is then honed and optimised until it is suitable for use in less expensive systems – That is not to say that Hertz Mille are cheap but they do represent excellent value for money when the application of revolutionary technologies is taken into account. When installed correctly Hertz Mille will bring a smile to the face of the most discerning music lover.
If you have a car and you love music, visit your local FOUR MASTER and ask for a demonstration of some of the finest car audio equipment available. Don’t forget to follow this link to print a “money off” voucher.
Visit www.fourcars.co.uk or call 0800 652 5125 for further information of upcoming special offers.
FOUR MASTERS for music lovers on the move – In an age when we are hit with technology for technology’s sake and where price and convenience come before emotional engagement it is refreshing to hear that there are specialist groups of companies around who still care about quality.
FOUR MASTERS are a nationwide network of independent Car Audio installers each having an established business with highly skilled staff and exceptional passion for their area of specialism. FOUR MASTERS is the glue that holds this group of exclusive businesses together and is able to offer great benefits to those who require more musical performance in their car.
FOUR MASTERS are able to build Car stereo systems to suit all tastes and pockets. Installation is as important and a FOUR MASTER will ensure that your products are installed in a safe and sympathetic way whilst delivering optimum performance. FOUR MASTERS are passionate about Audio as well as cars and are used to working with both.
Because of the excellence of installing companies, FOUR MASTERS are confident in offering a 3-year national warranty on both parts and labour – so if your audio should develop a fault in another part of the country you simply get in touch with the local FOUR MASTER and they will sort it out, free of charge.
We often come across customers who query the need for a subwoofer – Surely these are just for the young who listen to dance music? Not at all – In fact some of the most challenging music to reproduce is Orchestral where the bass frequencies are often eaten up by road noise. By paying particular attention to bass frequencies we ensure that every sound from Timpani, Bassoon and Double Bass can be heard just as clearly as the Violin, Flute and Oboe. FOUR MASTERS are highly service oriented and deliver an experience they feel the discerning music lover would appreciate – no bright light, techno babble just plain honest advice on how to achieve the very best sound from your vehicle which will bring your music collection to life.
To get the latest information and product offers, go to www.fourcars.co.uk where you can stop dreaming and start shopping for the ultimate mobile listening experience.
Hertz HT 20R Supertweeters for sweeter in-car sounds from your FOUR MASTER. Much is made of the need for additional bass reinforcement in the in-car listening environment however, this usually requires an investment in amplifiers and subwoofers which may be a treat which requires saving for. In the meantime, the addition of a pair of high quality tweeters will deliver immediate hi-fi results and could cost a lot less. Developing the sound in your car is often a case of building as and when the budget is available and also when a prticular element of the soundscape in your car needs attention. Most cars need every element to be looked at and there is a good case for looking at the top end reproduction first.
Tweeters carry frequencies which allow our ears to pinpoint exactly where a sound is coming from and therefore, what is known as the stereo image, is very much defined by the quality of reproduction of high frequencies. The Hertz HT20R is a set of ribbon supertweeters complete with crossover which deliver fantastic quality treble tone and help to improve the definition of the stereo image you are listening to. As with anything else there are many differing qualities of tweeters available and the HT20 R’s are right up there with some of the best available. But a well designed entry level pair of tweeters will still have a huge effect on overal sound as it is here that car manufacturers make many compromises to the extent that they may even deliberately make their tweeters work less well to conceal poor quality.
A trip to your local FOUR MASTER for a pair of replacement tweeters will help you to reproduce high frequency nuances that are often lost when transfering music from home to the car and ironically, if you travel any distance to work and back you probably spend more time listening in your car than at home! so why not, er, “tweet” yourself (sorry) and get on the road to great car stereo.
For further information call 0800 652 5125 or visit your local FOUR MASTER
Christmas AmperChristmas AmperFOUR’s Christmas Amper or, Bass – The Final Front Ear
There is nothing like a significant bass boost to captivate your interest in music and there is no shame in starting your musical journey this way. Bass is the most difficult kind of audio to produce with integrity and although many companies can make a noise, it is usually one loaded with distortion rendering the source music unlistenable at worst or unintelligible at best!
Christmas Amper Car Audio Package
This is where Hertz differs from the crowd. They research, build, test and review each product tirelessly until it pleases them and as they have amassed some of the finest designers and critical listeners in the world over the years it takes something extra special to impress them!
Many music and sound experts have begun their interest following a moving bass related experience. Even some of the nation’s finest Sound Quality competition entrants will admit that their interest began with the memory of organ wobbling bass from a PA stack at a gig, real life sound such as a low-flying aeroplane or a sub-filled car heard at a show.
Following the incredible interest shown at shows and on YouTube in its ultra loud Hertz equipped FIAT Panda FOUR has pulled out all the stops and put together this very special package so that others may begin a journey through the music universe. (See the video at the bottom of this page)
Consisting of a Hertz 2-channel HE amplifier and an EBX 250 boxed 10” Hertz Energy subwoofer with a high quality Audison Connection amp kit, this superb package will connect directly to your OEM or factory fitted equipment to provide you with chest rattling, musical bass that will change your driving experience forever!
This package would normally cost you £407.98p from all FOUR MASTERS and FOUR dealers, but Santa wants you to treat yourself to an early pressie and you can therefore get all of this for just £249.99
Try FOUR’s brand new “Shop online, Collect in store” feature at http://www.fourcars.co.uk/category.php?cat=33make sure you get your equipment efficiently delivered to your local FOUR MASTER for you to collect. Alternatively, call 0845 450 1594
FOUR MASTER adds Audio Joy to iPod Solution
The following is edited feedback received by one of FOUR MASTERS delighted customers. Sign up to receive Driving Sounds and make sure you get news of special offers which could change your driving pleasure for the good!
The customer is a 40 year-old account manager for a distributor of consumer durable products. An Avid iPod user and downloader of obscure Indie-style music he visited a FOUR MASTER with a view to finding a way to connect his iPod to his factory fitted radio.
Whilst there, he perused some in-store material which mentioned complete audio system installs called Audio Joy, Audio Heaven and Audio Expert but dismissed big installs as being for the young, free and single – How wrong he was!
The iPod interface was easily resolved. The FOUR MASTER had a standalone product he could install very quickly and cheaply which would allow him to play his “special” music through the factory fitted system. Our customer continues: “The FOUR MASTER offered to sit me in his demonstrator and plug my actual iPod in. The sound was fantastic, and I was now excited at the prospect of being able to indulge my passion in my own space. However, I remained resolute about not wanting an entire sound system in my car, booked the car in for an iPod adaptor to be fitted and left the store”
“Once fitted, I plugged my iPod in and of course, the sound was no better. My FOUR MASTER spoke about how the sound could be improved. The answer was to commit to a system but I feared that the products I had been demonstrated would bust the family budget. I was shocked to find that an entry level Audio Joy package could be mine for just £699 including installation. I dropped my car off in the morning and later that day, collected it with eager anticipation and a selection of music on my iPod – Wow! From the first chord of the first track, I was amazed by the clarity, depth of bass and spacious sound that arrived at my ears.
The whole FOUR MASTER experience has changed my attitude to driving as well as shopping and I vowed there and then to only use specialists to advise me!”
Contact your local FOUR MASTER and find Audio Joy or call 0845 450 1594 or click here for special offers!
FOUR MASTER Sextons, Southampton demonstrates Audio Heaven with it new demo car. Based on a Honda CRV and installed with Audison VOCE speakers the car illustrates perfectly what a FOUR MASTER can do for music lovers on the move.
Four Masters are a network of car stereo experts all skilled and qualified to turn your car into your own private listening space. Whether you retain the factory fitted stereo, or want to upgrade it for extra features like an iPod input or Bluetooth for instance, is entirely up to you, we know that the biggest difference you can make to your musical enjoyment is in upgrading the speakers for clear high and warm mid-range frequencies and adding a sub-woofer for sumptuous, enjoyment enriching bass.
This guaranteed effect is reflected in the name of our mid-priced system which we call Audio Heaven. The Audio Heaven system featured below was installed by FOUR MASTER Sextons in Southampton. The equipment was all chosen for purpose and apart from the Alpine head unit, comes from top Italian company Audison.
Known for its no compromise approach to producing innovative products with excellent sound as the chief priority, these products do not let them down. The Audison Voce AV-K6 component speakers recently won a pan-European award (EISA) as best speakers in their class. Much of the technology is borrowed from Audison’s world renowned high-end Thesis range and the results are comparable to speakers costing a lot more. A Voce 12” sub-woofer and Audison LRX 6.9 amplifier completes the stairway to heaven.
FOUR MASTERS are extremely versatile and as you can see, this installation has been finished in Alcantara. The build could just as easily be finished in leather, vinyl to match the original interior or any other kind of material.
Visit Sextons, Southampton or any other FOUR MASTER for a close-up look at the skills on offer or visit www.fourcars.co.uk for a full explanation of what we do or simply call 0845 450 1594
Audison Voce, High-end Sound from Mid-priced Speakers can revolutionise your driving experience. Available now from FOUR MASTERS the largest independent UK specialist network, these speakers will make everyone sit up and listen. Italian brand, Audison has pioneered new technologies in order to put true hi-fi into cars. Their highly successful Thesis amps and later, Thesis speakers have shown the way with many other manufacturers struggling to keep pace with the new materials and techniques employed.
Audison Voce, distributed exclusively in the UK by FOUR demonstrates how once developed, new technology can quickly be refined within a commercial product and filtered down to more cost effective offerings. Starting at just £174.99 for a pair of 5″ coaxials Voce’s price tag almost undermines performance. The range includes two pairs of coaxials as well as components which allow installers to build two or three-way systems plus a subwoofer which despite handling big amounts of power, is amongst a select few “musical” subs ever built. The woofers are built around an open air design with aerodynamically shaped spokes which drastically reduce back-wave reflections which can distort the cone. Using a blend of cotton and pressed paper, the cones are formed to move the maximum amount of air while resisting cone break-up during heavy excursion. Tweeters use a material called Tetelon which is a blend of cotton and silk to provide pinpoint accuracy in the high’s without unpleasant harshness often experienced at these price points while the annular geometry of the damping chamber helps to extend low frequency response offering smoother transition between mid and high frequencies.
Capable in the right hands, of offering a huge audio lift to any car, Audison Voce are the perfect match for FOUR MASTER installation expertise. Together, installer and product can work in harmony to bring you perfect sounds whatever you listen to. So good in fact, that they have just received a “Best in Europe” award from EISA a panel made up of 60 journalists from all over Europe!
Trax 2010 calls in the doctors. What for? to ensure that your ICE install is in good health. The FOUR MASTER Doctors are a network of the nations best and most experienced installers who travel around UK car shows offering free system health checks. They will be at Silverstone all day for Trax 2010 on Sunday 5th September.
Installed it yourself? that’s fine, we just want to make sure it is safe. Require advice on how to get more from your existing equipment? also fine, with our years of experience we know all there is to know about speaker placement, sound treatment and matching amps to head units, speakers and subwoofers. Want a system and need to know how much to spend? no problem, FOUR MASTER Doctors can advise you on the best equipment to buy for your needs. Bring some of your own music along and we can help you to tell the difference between truly great car hi-fi and average stuff and with a wealth of great performing brands on hand, we can even provide you with all of the equipment you need. We will even measure your car and give you certificate of SPL output so you know just how loud you go.
New for TRAX 2010 are the cable doctors. These highly trained specialists are able to identify at a glance if you have made the right decision regarding guage of cable – It is not enough to have cable, you need the right cable! without it you can seriously compromise the performance of your equipment and in many cases risk starting a fire in your car which is too scary to contemplate. So, contact the FOUR MASTER Car Clinic and book your car in for a free of charge appointment! To avoid disappointment, book in advance. Call 0800 652 5125 – or find us at the show
FOUR MASTERS to showcase Italian audio technology at Auto Italia. Visitors to this stunning event held at Brooklands on April 30th for Italian car enthusiasts will be treated this year to a stunning demonstration of just how good a car audio system can sound even in a high performance sports car. The car, a Ferrari 355 will feature Hertz Mille speakers from Italian high-end audio manufacturer Elettromedia. These speakers have already won many industry plaudits and pull together many radical technologies used in even higher end equipment sold under sister brand, Audison.
n the road and are able to find sensible solutions for any vehicle without affecting the integrity of the vehicle. Furthermore, their work can be completely undone and the vehicle returned to stock condition for onward sale at a later date. With a 3-year national warranty offered as standard and an unrivalled 21-day no quibble money back guarantee - it makes perfect sense for any music lover on the move to take their treasured vehicle to a FOUR MASTER for five star treatment.
