Amy Gilroy

The IQ 2 system works with wireless CarPlay and Android Auto. As other Android-based LinksWell radios, it allows users to download apps directly from the Google Play store.

Dealers and distributors have seen spotty deliveries in speakers since the April/May time frame, they said. At least five top speaker vendors and one leading supplier of car radios are in backorder.

The displays were well known for having missing products or not working properly.

Garmin, which owns JL Audio, reported last week (late July) that it received $21 million in tariff refunds.

JVCKENWOOD's Mobility & Telematics sector, which includes car audio, saw close to a 15 percent increase in revenue in the recent 3 months ended June 30.

It took on fleet work about four years after it began selling car audio, after being contacted by a broker for a fleet safety equipment supplier that was seeking installation subcontractors.

The best overall car audio subwoofer measured by exceptional sound, fitment and engineering in Europe, North America and Asia, is the Morel Ultimo Pro 104D, according to the latest awards by the renown EISA (Expert imaging and Sound Association).

I still remember the day I bought my business license in 1984. It was a happy beginning, followed by a wonderful journey. There were certainly ups and downs, because every business has them. I sometimes compare business to a heart monitor. The line goes up and it goes down, and that is how you know you are alive. What matters is how you handle those lows because those moments help define your character. Now I get something many business owners never experience. I get to see the legacy live on. I get to pass the baton to a man who stood beside me for 20 years and watch him take what we built together and make it his own. There is no sadness for me in that. I am lifted up by it. My career had a happy beginning, a wonderful journey and now a happy ending, but what makes the ending so special is that it is also someone else's new beginning. Thank you, Jeff, for 20 years of loyalty, friendship, hard work and service to me and Santa Rosa Cartunes. You're the best. Now it is your turn to create miles of smiles.

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Suppliers appear reluctant to pass along higher material costs due to belt tightening by consumers who are saddled with higher gas prices and overall inflation, said dealers.