Perfectionist’s Top Five Gift ideas This Holiday Season

11/08/2018 By John Schwartz

Perfectionist’s Top Five Gift ideas This Holiday Season

Don’t know what to get someone special this year? Here are a few ideas from the team at Perfectionist Auto Sound and Security!

Drone Mobile Add On

The Drone Mobile can be added onto any existing Compustar system, or can be a standalone unit for GPS tracking! Drone Mobile is an app that allows you to control your vehicle with unlimited range. This app allows you to send commands such as lock, unlock, and start to your vehicle. Drone sends status updates such as the temperature in the vehicle, battery voltage, and whether the doors are open or closed! Learn more about Drone Mobile here.

Back Up Camera

Back up camera’s are an amazing investment for driver safety. Rear view cameras add value on to an older vehicle that is not already equipped with this feature. Aftermarket back up camera’s can be added to a vehicles factory screen, dash monitor, rear view camera or even an aftermarket head unit. We can customize this upgrade however the driver would like! There is also options to add parking lines as well.

Bluetooth Add On

Adding hands free calling, and streaming audio is an immediate upgrade for any vehicle. This accessory allows you to drive hands free, and increases the drivers safety. It also adds the convenience of streaming your own music while driving. A great universal Bluetooth add on is out ISimple ISFM 2351.

Momento Dash Cam

Dash cams help protect you from something out of the ordinary while driving or while the vehicle is parked. “Momento ensures that you will always be ready.” The Momento records and stores the footage on a Micro-SD card. It has a built in shock sensor, and motion detection to trigger the AutoSave feature.

Gift Cards

Gift cards are always a great gift! Cant decide what to get? Let them decide!

Visit Perfectionist Today

Call us at (907) 563-8112 and schedule a no-cost consultation to discuss your car electronics upgrade needs. We’re conveniently located at 801 East 82nd Avenue, D1 in Anchorage, open Monday-Saturday from 9am-6pm. Whatever your car technology needs, we’ve got the expertise to deliver a solution just for you

Motorhome Upgrade

06/23/2018 By John Schwartz

Motorhome Upgrade

Pioneer Radio Upgrade in a Motorhome!

One of our client’s came in recently looking to upgrade their motorhome. They were wanting to add hands-free capabilities for phone calls, and audio. We introduced a few Pioneer options. They decided on the Pioneer DEH-6000BS. The Pioneer unit has a USB, AUX, Bluetooth, CD, and AM/FM. The DEH-6000bs t is a single din head unit so it allowed for a storage pocket to go underneath the radio.

What is Bluetooth?

Bluetooth is a communication method used to allow compatible devices to connect together without the need for wires. The compatible devices can share data, audio, video, controls and many other things depending on what kind of device profile is supported. Profiles are how your smartphone knows to share caller ID or the phone’s contacts with the vehicle’s in-dash screen. Or how the steering wheel play/pause buttons operate your smartphone’s audio playback when streaming content. All of it connects without wires.

Bluetooth and Driver Safety

Upgrading their motorhome with Bluetooth is not only convenient for the driver but it increases the drivers safety. For example, if you are driving and receive a phone call while connected via Bluetooth then the phone call will remain hands free.

Contact us today!

Call us at (907) 563-8112 and schedule a no-cost consultation to discuss your vehicle’s Bluetooth options. We have an expert staff with years of experience that can help make your connectivity to a Bluetooth solution an easy process that’ll ensure easy and safer driving. With such easy-to-use technology in your vehicle, we know you’ll spend more time focusing on the road instead of fumbling with your smartphone or tablet.

Anchorage 2008 Honda CRV Backup Camera And Radio Upgrades

07/04/2017 By John Schwartz

A client from Anchorage came to Perfectionist Auto Sound & Security in search of new a 2008 Honda CRV backup camera and new Pioneer 4200-NEX. Our team spent time with the client, getting to know them better and how they used the 2008 CRV, and looking it over with them. Then we spent time on looking at products that we thought best suited their needs. We worked up a proposal for the client that they liked, so we set an appointment to do the work.

Our team installed a Pioneer AVH-4200NEX DVD player in the dash to replace the original unit. We used a camera that frames the entire license plate, placing it on the top center of the frame. After finishing the installation, we went over the operation of the products with the client, and they were pleased with how it worked.

If you would like to add a backup camera to your vehicle or upgrade the stereo system, we invite you to stop by Perfectionist Auto Sound & Security or contact us here.

Product Spotlight: Wet Sounds WS-220 BT

04/26/2017 By John Schwartz

Perfectionist Auto Sound & Security in Anchorage has been building the finest marine audio systems for our clients for over a decade. One of the most versatile products we offer is the Wetsounds WS-220BT.

Wet Sounds Legacy

One of the things we appreciate most about products from Wet Sounds is the company’s dedication to marine. Ever since their founding, everything they do has been designed to give you a better-sounding, longer-lasting, more fun day on the water. Their products are not car audio products that are relabeled marine, but rather, products engineered from the ground up specifically for the needs of a boat owner.

Four-zone Control

Right out of the gate, having up to four different zones controlled at your fingertips makes it a lot easier to enjoy the music you want on all the areas of your boat. Imagine being able to control the volume down inside the cabin, up on the main deck, in your tower speakers and in your subwoofers, all from one convenient spot, with all of them at different levels.

Listen to Three Different Sources, Including Bluetooth

Let’s say you hop on your boat and start cruising toward your destination. You can listen to the source unit in your boat, use Bluetooth wireless music streaming to enjoy music from your smartphone or use the aux input to play almost any portable media.

Talkback Microphone for Added Convenience

Imagine this scenario: You are on the water, enjoying your day, and you want to talk to the people splashing around in the water or resting on the shore. You simply get out the talkback mic and begin speaking. The Wet Sounds WS-220BT will mute zone 1 and use those speakers to let you communicate with them easily and efficiently.

Schedule a Consultation and Learn More About the WS-220 BT

The next step in getting a great-sounding marine audio system that you will enjoy for years to come is by scheduling a consultation with Perfectionist Auto Sound & Security. You can stop by our state-of-the-art showroom, call us or simply click HERE. One of our team will work with you to design and build the stereo system that best fits your unique needs.

What is Bluetooth?

04/23/2017 By BestCarAudio.com

If you have been around the mobile electronics industry for any amount of time, you will know that certain terms are often used incorrectly. One term that has been over-abused lately is Bluetooth. Product manufacturers, retailers and consumers have developed an expectation of what Bluetooth is, and what it does. Sadly, those expectations can lead to confusion and undesirable results. This article explains what Bluetooth is, and how it is used.

What is Bluetooth?

Back in the dark ages, we had to connect electronic devices with wires. We also created wheels from boulders using animal bones as tools. RS-232 was a popular type of communication protocol for devices like modems, printers, scanners and cameras. Two wires would carry data between these devices and your computer. In 1994, Ericsson – a telecommunications and network equipment manufacturer in Stockholm, Sweden – introduced a wireless alternative to RS-232 called Bluetooth.

Bluetooth is a low-power, high-speed wireless communication protocol. Bluetooth operates using short-wave UHF radio waves in the frequency band of 2.4 to 2.485 GHz. Within this range of frequencies are 79 dedicated Bluetooth channels. Bluetooth uses Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum to reduce errors and allow multiple devices to operate within the same frequency spectrum.

Bluetooth is used for short-range data communication between devices like computer and keyboards, video game controllers and consoles, and cellular phones and wireless devices. There are applications for medical applications such as monitoring heart rate, blood pressure and glucose levels. That said, many industrial applications exist between sensors in production systems and control computers.

Bluetooth Profiles

The misconception many people in the mobile electronics industry have is that Bluetooth exists to let cellular phones make calls and stream music to our radios. Bluetooth is far more involved and flexible than that.

Any talk of Bluetooth functionality is a perfect segue to introduce us to profiles. A Bluetooth profile is a set of instructions and commands that operate over a Bluetooth connection. Profiles simplify the communication between devices. In our industry, we are used to four common profiles:

PBAP – Phonebook Access Profile

HFP – Hands-free Profile

A2DP – Advanced Audio Distribution Profile

AVRCP – Audio Video Remote Control Profile

These profiles are used in varying combinations to allow you to connect your phone to your car radio so you can make phone calls and stream music. A few companies that have wanted to provide an Internet connection to their radio have used DUN to accomplish this task.

PBAP Profile

The Phone Book Access Profile allows your source unit to receive phonebook entry information, as well as manage it. Phonebook entries are transmitted and managed by the radio in vCard 2.1 or vCard .0 formats. Missed, received and dialed numbers are listed as well.

HFP Profile

The Hands-free Profile carries monaural audio between the phone and a secondary device. The profile also supports commands to answer or reject incoming calls; place a call; use memory data to place a call, terminate a call or manage phone volume level; and send phone status information, including battery, roaming status and signal strength . These functions are included in version 1.5 of the Hands-free Profile. Future versions, such as 1.7, will include support for wideband speech and the use of external audio compression and decompression codecs.

A2DP Profile

The Advanced Audio Distribution Profile operates within another profile called the Generic Audio/Video Distribution Profile (GAVDP). A2DP is responsible for allowing us to stream audio from a device such as a smartphone to a radio or powered speaker. The basic profile allows for stereo audio to be transmitted at a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz at up to 328 kb/s. The use of a third-part codec such as aptX from Qualcomm or LDAC from Sony may further improve on bandwidth.

AVRCP Profile

Functioning alongside the GAVDP profile is the Audio Video Remote Control Profile. AVRCP is responsible for the display of song title, artist and album information, and control over playback device functions. If you can imagine a button on a DVD remote control, the AVRCP is likely to support it. Most car audio source units include functions like play, pause, fast-forward and rewind. The most recent versions of AVRCP include support for folder navigation and searching.

What Bluetooth Doesn’t Do

Although the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) works to manage the different Bluetooth communication and profile standards, there are variations in functionality between profile versions and, more importantly, between smartphone vendors. This latter fact can be a significant issue for buyers of car audio source units. The expectation that it “should work,” while not unreasonable, is not always possible. To expect a seven- or eight-year-old radio to work flawlessly with a brand-new iPhone 7 or Samsung Galaxy S8 isn’t reasonable. The hardware in the older units cannot be upgraded.

How to Buy Bluetooth

If you are shopping for a new source unit, take any smartphone you want to use with it to the retailer. Ask to pair your phone with the demo unit on display. Check that your entire list of phone contacts transfers as expected. Make sure you can use voice control functions if they apply to your phone. See that you can make calls easily. Finally, check that your phone reconnects reliably to the source unit by cycling power on the source a few times.

If you purchase a new radio and have it installed, only to find out it is not compatible with your smartphone, there is often nothing that can be done quickly. Some manufacturers do release updates for Bluetooth functionality, but these updates are not going to turn a Bluetooth 3.0 system into a 4.0, or add AVRCP 1.4 to a system that shipped with AVRCP 1.2. Do your research before you buy!

If you are looking for a hands-free solution to make phone calls or stream music to your audio system, drop in at your local mobile electronics specialist retailer. Bring your phone, pair the Bluetooth connection and experiment with the options.

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