Five Star Car Stereo: The Best car stereo out the Sony RSX GS9

Five Star Car Stereo unboxes and reviews Sony's Flagship RSX GS9 in dash unit.

Some highlights:

• 3 USB inputs, one rear, two front.
• High (speaker) level inputs, handling 3 to 12v input
• A minimalist user interface that does not draw attention to itself
• High res DAC 
• Plays back 8 different file formats
• Remote
• Smartphone app

What do you think? Leave a note in the comments!

CNN: Pioneer's new car audio receivers bring Alexa along for the ride

According to an article at CNN, Pioneer's new NEX series of connected in dash car stereos will also include Amazon Alexa, in addition to established in car digital technologies such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

The author, Jacob Krol of CNN Underscored, goes on to explain that the Alexa in-car experience is just like the Alexa at-home experience. One caveat: Alexa's in car experience will require internet connectivity either through your phone or through the car itself.

The $600 entry level DMH-W4600NEX and DMH-W4660NEX units each sport a 6.8" screen in a familiar "double din" chassis, while moving up to the $900 9 inch DMH-WC6600NEX gives you a modular design, where the "box" can be mounted elsewhere and the screen fabricated into your dash.

The flagship models, the $1000 DMH-WT7600NEX and the $1200 DMH-WT8600NEX use a single DIN mount and allow the screen to "float", allowing the user to customize the screen's position for convenience.

This is great news for those who subscribe to Amazon's music or play interactive games with Alexa.

Read more: Pioneer's new car audio receivers bring Alexa along for the ride (CNN)

Amplifier Test Video: Audiobank P8000.1

BigDWiz reviews and tests $145 subwoofer amplifier and pulls no punches. He is not kind to this P8000.1 amplifier during unboxing and testing.

Spoilers: This amplifier produces respectable power for the money, in this author's opinion. I mean, I grew up in an era when you were going to spend a dollar per watt for a quality amplifier. $145 for 1200w is downright amazing to me.

However, the lack of respect for the consumer, assuming we're all a bunch of dumb children who will believe anything written on the heatsink, is why I avoid these products. The build quality is probably sub-par, too.

Subwooferjs 1.03 released

New feature for Subwooferjs: The driver object has three methods to produce subwoofer objects. Two are designed for maximally flat response (one sealed, one ported) and one is designed to produce an "extended bass shelf" to get extension from woofers with a higher fs parameter.

The code is available open source at github and npm.

Amplifier Test: Gravity Audio WZ8000.1D:

I enjoy BigDWiz's Old School Stereo equipment review and test videos, especially when he gets a hold of a $300 amp emblazoned with "8000w" everywhere. How much power does it really make? Watch BigD's video to find out!

Prime Day deal starts at 330Eastern: MTX Thunder Amplifiers

Amazon Prime Day 2019 Deals for MTX Thunder Amplifiers starts on July 15 and starts at 330pm eastern standard time!

Includes:

• MTX Thunder75.4

Amazon Prime Day is July 15 and July 16. Keep your car clean with deals!

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Prime day is this Amazon two day sale event. You're in need of accessories for your car, even if they aren't subwoofer or audio related.

Hit up the prime day page on the 15th and 16th to do some shopping and see all the deals as they roll in.

Clean off your dash and hard surfaces with a duster. This is a great duster for under $10!

So you got the dust off, but it's not quite "clean". You need some CarGuys Super Cleaner. This 18oz kit comes with a spray bottle and a textured cleaning cloth for under $20.

Finally, suck up all those crumbs and the dirt from your shoes with this 12v automotive vacuum claner for under $30!