Erin Blanton wrote about mobile A/V gear at Crutchfield. Before joining Crutchfield, she wrote grants for a non-profit theater company in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, hustled grub at a vegetarian cafe in Massachusetts, and made her professional acting debut as Winnie-the-Pooh at Cape Cod Repertory Theater in the summer of 1997. She left Crutchfield to open her own toy store, Pufferbellies, in nearby Staunton, Virginia, which continues to keep her busy.

Todd Cabell is the Car Multichannel Projects Editor at Crutchfield, where he has written about car electronics since 2001. He enjoys swimming, fly fishing, hiking, skiing, cooking, and playing guitar when he's not spilling red ink. He drives a 2000 Ford F-150 with an Alpine CDA-7894 in the dash, Polk/MOMO 5-1/4" components up front, Polk 6”x8” speakers in the rear, a Rockford Fosgate Punch P8004 amplifier, and an MTX Thunderform under the rear seat. He hopes to one day outfit his 1962 Mercury Comet with a worthy sound system as well. He received a B.A. in English from Davidson College, an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia, and a Cambridge/RSA CELTA Certification for ESL Teaching from Cambridge University.