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Auto PlanetKoramangala, BengaluruEst. 1999

Turning cars into concerts.

A car audio shop behind the Koramangala BDA complex: twenty-two brands on the wall, a bay to build in, and the measurements to prove what came out of it.

01 — The aisle

Four ways in.

Nothing here is a fixed package. Every build is specified for the car and for the seat you actually sit in — but the specification almost always takes one of these four shapes.

04 configurations

01 A dark blue Skoda in the Auto Planet showroom with its doors open, Helix, JL Audio and D-Artex boxes lined up on the floor in front of it

Plug & play

A factory-fit DSP amplifier giving real hi-fi through the original harness. No wire sliced, no wire cut — the right answer for a leased car, or for one you do not want opened up.

Source
Factory head unit
Processing
Plug-in DSP amplifier
Cut into the car
Nothing
Ask about this
02 A Morel midbass driver mounted in a door skin, Brazo damping sheet laid around it and the loom clipped clear

Front stage

Damping first, then a two-way active front. It is the money that changes the most: doors stop ringing, the noise floor drops, and the stage climbs out of the door card.

Front
2-way active
Doors
Damped, then rebuilt
Tuning
Measured in your cabin
Ask about this
03 A fabricated A-pillar pod holding a midrange driver and a tweeter, trimmed to match the interior

Three-way active

Midbass in the door, midrange and tweeter up in the pillar, every channel time-aligned to one seat. This is the configuration the shop takes apart end to end on its own experience page.

Front
3-way active
Pillars
Fabricated pods
Processing
Full DSP, time-aligned
See how it works
04 An SUV boot rebuilt as a hexagon-panelled amplifier rack picked out in red LED, an LED bar across the tailgate

The full build

Twelve channels of processing, ten channels of amplification and a mono block, with an enclosure fabricated for the car it lives in rather than bought to fit it.

Processing
12-channel DSP
Amplification
10 channels + mono
Enclosure
Fabricated for the car
Ask about this

Not sure which

Bring the car
and the playlist.

Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30 to 20:30. An hour in the shop settles it faster than any spec sheet will.

Message the shop

02 — The wall

Twenty-two names
we actually stock.

Flagship is a word we spend carefully. Five pieces earn it here — set out in the order the music travels through them.

05 flagship

  1. Source

    Astell&Kern DAP

    As good as everything after it

  2. Processing

    Helix DSP Ultra XT

    Audiotec Fischer

  3. Amplification

    Brax MX4

    Four-channel

  4. Centre

    Brax GX

    The centre channel

  5. Output

    Helix Compose i7

    Speakers — India’s first install

  1. Morel
  2. Helix
  3. Brax
  4. JL Audio
  5. Focal
  6. Audison
  7. Burmester
  8. Bowers & Wilkins
  9. Dynaudio
  10. Nakamichi
  11. Mosconi
  12. Match
  13. Hertz
  14. Ground Zero
  15. Bang & Olufsen
  16. Rockford Fosgate
  17. Clarion
  18. Alpine
  19. Rainbow
  20. Brazo
  21. Farad
  22. Audio Fidelity

03 — The counter

Seven things
you can ask for.

07 services

  1. Vehicle-specific work to manufacturer guidelines: iPad and iPhone connectivity, USB and Bluetooth, rear entertainment, processor enhancement, steering control adaptation. No wire sliced, no wire cut — your warranty stays intact.

  2. Factory audio is built to sell cars, not to sound good. We place and integrate each component around one listener, the seat they actually sit in, and the acoustics of that specific cabin.

  3. Laptop-based DSP calibration, channel by channel. Staging, imaging, frequency response and time alignment measured and corrected for your cabin — so vocals sit in front of you, instruments separate, and bass hits tight instead of boomy. Not a preset.

  4. The first thing asked for before any upgrade, and the right instinct. Layered damping on doors, floor and boot stops panels ringing and drops the noise floor — the effects run far deeper than audio alone.

  5. Italian leather, a wide range of stitching options and Swarovski-studded logos — and synthetic upholstery customised the same way.

  6. Factory-fit DSP amplifiers that give real hi-fi through the original harness. Right for a leased car, where nothing should be cut into.

  7. Headlamp upgrades chosen for the housing your car actually has, not the specification printed on the box.

A factory infotainment screen playing music in a Jeep Wrangler dashboard
Factory head unit, integrated — Jeep Wrangler
A finished boot build: a JL Audio subwoofer set into black carpet beneath a Helix DSP.3S processor and matched amplifiers
Helix DSP.3S and a JL Audio sub, built into the boot floor
A technician at a laptop inside a Mercedes cabin, response curves on screen, calibrating the DSP
Calibration in the cabin it has to work in
A car stripped to bare metal in the bay, damping laid across the whole floor, both doors open
Stripped to metal, damped, then rebuilt

No photograph of our own work for this one yet — ask at the counter

04 — The floor

Work, as it
left the bay.

08 frames

A white Jeep Compass in the Auto Planet showroom, headlights on, with Morel, JL Audio, Helix and Brazo boxes stacked in front of it
Morel, JL Audio, Helix and Brazo, waiting on the car
A Morel tweeter mounted on an A-pillar in close-up, the cabin falling out of focus behind it
Morel tweeter on the A-pillar
A red MPV boot with two JL Audio subwoofers set into a fabricated panel
Twin JL subs, one fabricated panel
A JL Audio subwoofer and matched amplifiers set into a black-carpet boot panel, red interior trim behind
Amplifiers and sub, one panel, red cabin
A JL Audio subwoofer flush-mounted into a fabricated carpet-trimmed enclosure carrying an etched Auto Planet plate
Sub flush-set, fabricated box
A door skin stripped and fully treated with damping sheet, the loom routed and clipped across it
Door skin treated, loom routed
An MPV boot with a subwoofer and amplifiers built into the floor panel, red leather seats behind
Boot floor rebuilt around the electronics
A tweeter and a midrange driver set into the pillar corner of a dark modern cabin, an ambient light strip running below them
Tweeter and midrange, pillar corner

05 — Proof

Judged, and won.

307 reviews

4.6 Across 307 Google reviews · at least 226 five-star

… Karthik Sukumaran at Auto Planet is not just an installer—he’s a multiple-time national EMMA champion and an official EMMA judge. That’s rare. Most installers just fit gear. Karthik builds systems that have been tested and scored against the strictest sound-quality standards in the world. …

Karthik was great and worked within my budget. Very knowledgeable with audio and installations. We upgraded my old dsp , did some rerouting and went from a passive to an active setup.

Extremely satisfied with the outcome. Will be going back for more audio upgrades in the future.

Google review Rajesh K

A wonderful experience from start to finish. Karthik is a very knowledgable person and translates even the most technical stuff in the simplest way. They have a wide range of high end products. A must visit for anyone who seriously interested in great car audio. Money well spent!!

Google review Ajay Majumder
Karthik Sukumaran holding the EMMA International Head Judge certificate
Four EMMA first-place trophies standing in a row on the showroom floor

The bench competes under the same rules it is judged by.

Where he judges

EMMA InternationalHead judge

EMMA Asia finalsJudges panel

EMMA Euro finalsJudges panel

EMMA Bengaluru — results

1stExpert Unlimited

1stExpert Limited

3rdMaster OEM

06 — The door

Come and listen.

Bring the car and the playlist. Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30 – 20:30. Closed Mondays.

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