For Real February

February For Real

Welcome to all of our Driving Sounds Club members new and old!

This month we are focussing on bass. As we have discussed many times, musical bass is essential to authentic music reproduction. There have been some significant developments in speakers and amplifiers for reproducing bass in a car. These have focussed on reducing the space required to produce excellent low notes!
Our "not-so-hidden-track" this month is from way back in 1973. The bass synthesiser was truly ahead of its time and when listened to in hi res on a good system, it is surprisingly strong and musical. We tried this streamed from both Quobuz Hi-Res and Tidal Master both of which sounded excellent. We have linked you to a YouTube rendering which is still pretty good even if it does feature an image of the wrong album!
But first, many of you new members will have joined as a result of entering our free BTCC ticket draw at AutoSport International. The winners are posted below. Thank you to all who entered and we hope you will stick with Driving Sounds Club.

Listen to the not so hidden track

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our recent BTCC ticket draw. We would like to thank everyone who entered and hope you stick with us for future Driving Sounds Club newsletters.

Many congratulations to:
Alan Patterson - Cheshire (Oulton Park)
Alex Lambropoulos - Leeds (Donnington August)
Craig Higson - Wigan (Oulton Park)
Craig Raines - Nottingham (Donnington April)
Dean Simons - Worcestershire (Donnington April)
Jake Richardson - Nottingham (Brands Hatch May)
Josh Blow - Grimsby (Donninglon August)
Nick Stamper - Cumbria (Croft)
Richard Corking - Northampton (Donningotn April)
Teresa Sawyer - Stoke-On-Trent (Oulton Park)

This month's exclusive Club Members article features the very excellent super-slim Hertz Mille subwoofers.

Click below to be the first to see it in its final form!

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The Good, the bad, and the ugly sides of bass

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Top Five Tunes

Every month we offer a Top Five. Sometimes these are tracks we have enjoyed listening to in our own cars, sometimes they are the favourites of some of the owners of the cars we feature in the magazine.

This month, we are listing out the Top Five of Four Car Audio's chief stock control supremo, Lauren Bailie. Lauren is a law graduate and girl-about-town who lives and works in Birmingham. She drives an as yet, unmodified BMW Mini. As you can tell, Lauren is a little more "of the moment" than many others we feature here!

Lauren's Top Five

He Goes Down - Rain Radio
Whistle - Jax Jones and Calum Scott
Tambourine - Eve
Go - BenjiFlow
Church - T-Pain

We are always interested to find out what Driving Sounds Club members are currently listening to. Click the button below to send me your top five tunes with the artist and your name. If you have an audio upgrade in your car then feel free to add details of that too.

My Top Five is .......