Check Out Our New Webstore for Great Deals!

Strapped for cash this holiday season but still looking to get your family high-quality home theater equipment, or other high-end audio equipment? 

Pyle Audio is changing things up over at our website, and these changes might just save the holidays! We have added a bunch of refurbished items to our first ever web store. This means that we are making a number of items available at deep discounts and hoping that consumers take advantage of the savings this holiday season. 

You might be asking yourself if you can trust these refurbished items. We understand, and we have addressed those concerns by putting a one year warranty on all of the items offered. If the item is faulty, we can replace or fix the items at no cost to you. It also means there is no excuse to not give your son or daughter that retro-style turntable with USB adapter they have been asking for. You can also buy similarly exciting gifts for everyone else on your holiday shopping list.

Know an aspiring DJ looking to strike out on his own? We have number of DJ equipment systems vital to anyone looking to fill up dance floors and keep the beat going. Pyle offers professional DJ power amplifiers that will give that young disc jockey a professional quality sound. There are also portable PA systems ideal not just for aspiring entertainers, but also perfect for family gatherings where speeches might be made.

Know someone who needs to replace his car stereo? We have a wealth of high-quality car audio equipment—our specialty. In-dash receivers are available with savings of as much as $50. We also have stylish and versatile touchscreen monitors for displaying a wide array of entertainment formats all from the comfort of your car.

All of these items and more are now available for purchase direct from Pyle Audio's website. While other consumers clamor for holiday deals unfurled on Black Friday, you can sleep in that day, secure in the knowledge that your family is going to be having the kind of holiday season they deserve. With the wealth of options available in our new web store, there is sure to be an item perfect for everyone on your list.

In-Dash Receivers and Music Equipment Keep You Culturally In Tune

These days we have more entertainment at our fingertips than ever before. Whether you are rushing home to your home theater equipment and a loaded DVR full of your favorite shows and movies, or you are scrolling through the endless amounts of music available on streaming services from your phone, it is amazing that we ever make a decision.  

Luckily, we have more time than ever to enjoy entertainment. For adults, maximizing your entertainment time means springing for certain amenities. Bluetooth speakers can make listening to music while you do yard work or tinker in the garage easier. With the right setup, you should be able to enjoy all of your favorite entertainment anywhere in your home. This will make keeping ahead of your DVR a little bit easier and allow you to stay on top of the latest music releases without hip coworkers rolling their eyes at you.

Perhaps the most essential piece of equipment to keep up on entertainment is an in-dash receiver for your car. Americans spend a lot of time in their cars and that time can be spent mindlessly bouncing around radio stations looking for anything you can tolerate, or it can be spent enjoying a handpicked selection of your favorite tunes. With an in-dash receiver, your phone or portable music player can become a vital connection to all of your favorite radio programs, podcasts, music, and anything else you enjoy listening to.

There was a time when adulthood meant falling out of interest with your favorite culture. Sure, Dad might come home and watch one or two television programs or the game on Sunday, but enthusiastically enjoying new music wasn't an option. Today, with the help of an in-dash receiver and some other pieces of technology, you can stay up on entertainment well into old age.

While just buying entertainment equipment for your home and car will not keep your cultural relevance up, it can be incredibly helpful. You are investing in your interests and making it easier to pursue those interests when the time presents itself.

Are Retro-Style Turntables Right For Me?

The return of vinyl, which we have discussed a lot on our blog, is exciting for music collectors and anyone working in the music industry, but why should someone take to the long nascent world of LPs and 45s?

It is a good question to be sure. An iPhone can stream tons of music on something that fits in your pockets. Attach that iPhone to an in-dash receiver and you can drive with the entire history of popular music near and far. It makes one wonder why people still collect large slabs of melted plastic imprinted with their favorite artists on them.

If you are not a music collector, owning records and playing them on a beautiful retro-style turntable can still carry a lot of charm. Unlike the short-attention-span listening your streaming-music service provides, a record can be an immersive experience. By listening top to bottom, you are experiencing the music in a very different way that even the easily skipped tracks on compact discs missed. Often times you will hear older music fans lament the disposable nature of modern music.

Maybe they have a point, or maybe the problem is us. If we are not giving something the time it takes to appreciate and are only checking out the hit singles on an album, how do we know the rest of the record is bad? Why would an artist even bother making a whole album no one would ever listen to?

For novice music listeners, the idea of purchasing LPs might still seem like an inherent hassle. Your retro-style turntable will take up space, and a rack of albums will take up even more space. Still, records and those retro turntables offer your home an aesthetic authenticity that not much else can provide. Even as your home-audio setup has expanded beyond your wildest imagination, much of even the best equipment can seem a little cold. Your Bluetooth speakers offer stellar fidelity, but do they make your house more of a home?

In the end, the rebirth of vinyl can turn a novice music fan into a totally psyched music fanatic. It will deepen your appreciation of music and offer you a new, stylish collection to show off to guests. When entertaining, combing through a stack of LPs simply has a better vibe than scrolling through Spotify. Dropping the needle on your retro-style turntable might just change the way you think about music.

From Your Retro-Style Turntable to Your In-Dash Receiver: Music in 2013 Is Great!

Some years just feel less momentous than others as far as music goes. Sure, music is still great. You can mine some classic vinyl or download unheard obscurities you might have missed to keep interest up, but this year has been uniquely fruitful in a wide array of genres.

Whether you are blasting the deeply layered electronic music of Jon Hopkin's Immunity out of Bluetooth speakers or dropping a thick slab of Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City onto a beautiful retro style turntable, the year has been offering an avalanche of unique releases by huge acts and upstarts alike. Most likely the on-demand nature of our entertainment tastes has you moving freely among genres to have the kind of beautiful smorgasbord of sounds that generations previous could only dream of.

Musicians are taking advantage of the anything goes vibe of our modern musical moment and making some fairly boundless albums. Kanye West, never content to be dropped in a box, has unleashed his combative Yeezus album to a mix of fawning praise and confused head scratches. Meanwhile Daft Punk, an iconoclastic cult act for more than a decade, sold 350k copies of their recent album Random Access Memories. They even moved a huge chunk of those records in deluxe LP form perfect for those retro style turntables that have become a huge hit everywhere from college dorm rooms to luxury apartments.

The successful rebirth of the vinyl record business as well as robust business for streaming playlists through stereos, computers and in-dash receivers in cars seems to suggest people are once again interested in investing money into their entertainment experience. This is good news for the music industry and the audio equipment business, but it is also good for consumers. As people put their money into high-quality music like the aforementioned artists in this article, more and more companies will invest in this kind of risk-taking art.

Beyond that, consumers have more and more choices for how to take all of this great music in. Have you ever heard music played perfectly from a pair of easily movable Bluetooth speakers? They have all the impact of gigantic stereo systems of the past with mobility that was heretofore unheard of. Seriously, with all of these perfected speakers, turntables and other equipment, everything sounds good whether you are dancing to Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" or moping around to the latest National album.

Make Your Own Mobile Audio With The New PED02M Electronic Drum Kit

Talk about mobile audio. Imagine the freedom of being able to record without having to drag your entire drum set to the recording studio. Well, now you can!

The new PED02M electronic drum kit comes complete with an MP3 recorder, making it easy to play and record from the confines of your own home. No more angry neighbors or upset roommates -- just plug in your headphones and play your heart out. Everyone knows that practice makes perfect. So now you can practice anytime you want, in the comfort of your own home. Since you can record it, you can listen to it later, mobile audio style in your car!

This compact, all-in-one solution is a drummer’s best friend. Complete with five ultra-responsive drum pads, two natural motion cymbal pads, and both hi-hat and bass pedals, the pads on the PED02M drum kit are so sensitive they feel like real, natural drums.

Including 11 pre-set drum kits with up to four variations, the PED02M’s 16-bit/44.1 kHz 3D sound quality will leave even the most seasoned and serious drummer in awe. The kit comes with a built-in reverb switch and metronome, an A-B looping function, MIDI in and outs, and of course the built in MP3 layer/recorder. The kit even comes with a stereo line-in for a portable MP3 mobile audio device, so you can practice along with any MP3 or CD.

Nice Hydraulics, How's Your Car Audio Woofer?

I love the west coast G style, and I've always dreamed of having a '64 Impala Lowrider. One day, I saw just the right one parked on my street. It belonged to an old man I knew. I pestered him for about a year before he sold it to me. I told him how I was going to soup it up, too, no secrets. He was cool. He even made me promise to get a high quality car audio woofer, so I wouldn't embarrass him when I was riding around. Dude had his rep to consider, like anyone!

When I bought it, I didn't have a ton of money. That car was a labor of love. I started with the superficial: a crazy hydraulic system with some chrome spokes and a sick paint job. So it looked great. But I was going to school, working, paying rent at the time. How was I going to afford a top-notch car audio woofer?

If it weren't for Pyle Sound Around, I would not be listening to the sweet sounds I'm hearing now. In fact, I might not even be driving. I promised I wouldn't embarrass my old friend, but mostly I didn't want to embarrass myself. The system in the car was weak. But I bought this sick car audio woofer from Pyle at a way lower price than the ones I'd been looking at in the store, and everything's been a smooth ride from there.

When I drive down my block, sometimes my buddy is sitting in a chair on his stoop. I slow down right in front of him, bump the bass, bounce the hydraulics, and he gets the biggest grin on his face you ever saw.

Tis The Season For Car Audio Speakers

It's summertime, which if you're anything like me, means two things:

1. Roll the windows down.
2. Turn the stereo up!

Last summer I embarrassed myself pretty good, blowing out my car audio speakers at a stoplight. There were some extremely good-looking girls on the corner, and I was jammin in the car, my seat leaned back just a little, not too much, and they were smiling at me, which I considered a signal to give them just a little more of my tunes, so I bumped the volume a notch or two and...boom. Fizzle. Quiet. They laughed.

They laughed, so it's all good, right? But how much better would it be if they were laughing with me, not at me, say, across the table at Mickey D's, drinking shakes and eating fries? What I really wish is that we still had drive-ins, like in the 50s. I'd leave the car audio speakers loud, so we had to shout over each other, just for fun, sharing fries and ketchup across the console. Sweet.

Obviously this year, I needed new car audio speakers. I wanted top of the line equipment, and I wanted the works. Not just speakers, but amps, subwoofers, the whole nine. Now I don't make a ton of money, so I had to find quality hardware at discount prices. I guess you know where I found it all, since you're reading this blog, too.

And if you happen to be one of those lovely ladies from my neighborhood, keep an ear out. Here I come.