The main advantage for choosing an installer like Sounds Good over a chain-store or mail-order house is the years of product knowledge and installation experience they bring to the project. Installing head units and speakers may seem straightforward, but it takes years of experience and tests to know which components sound best together and how to achieve the best installation for maximum system performance.

Isaac Goren has helped build thousands of mobile electronics systems in his twenty years of installation experience. In his "Cool School," Goren shares tips and tricks he has learned over the years about system design and installation.

Check out one of the articles below to learn something new about designing or improving a quality mobile sound system. Don't forget to enroll in the Cool School by submitting your name and email address below and you will be emailed when new articles appear.

• System Design for Beginners-Goren surveys each of the parts that go into building a quality mobile audio system, from understanding what you really want down to knowing which wiring you should use.



• Do's and Don'ts for a Deck and Four-Learn how to upgrade your system correctly over time with this in depth discussion of the important first stage: selecting a radio/cassette player or CD player and four speakers.



• Medical school students study hard at night over books of human anatomy. Believe it or not, installers of car audio systems must be concerned with anatomy, too. For a sound system to work well, its heart and veins must be sound so that its blood can reach out properly to all of its extremities.



• Many of the organizations that sanction sound-off contests also approve SPL or Sound Pressure Level competitions. Everyone knows that the largest number wins and so it is easy to pick a winner.