Tunes.

[Pete-M]

I just read this;

 

More 'exciting' Camry news. Fitted my faithful JVC stereo and CD changer, which has seen service in various cars including two Nissans 300Cs, a Laurel and the now-sold Camry Sport, into the Camry estate.

 

This, to me, is one of the best things about owning older cars. Over the years I've always liked fiddling with stereo stuff in cars. Not stupid great door pod / no back seat type setups but good head unit, good speakers, amplifiers and occasionally the odd subwoofer in the boot. I love listening to good music when I'm driving. Not everyone is so enthusiastic about the stuff I play, but hey, my car, my music. It's that or Radio 2.

 

So I've ended up with a setup I quite like. A Nakamichi MP3 cd player I bought off ebay about five years ago, an Alpine 12" sub 'n' box combo that does the job nicely and a mad German high end quality sound off amplifier, of which the name escapes me, to run the sub and a couple of other channels. I don't have any door speakers because once I've fitted them I sell them with the car. Nothing worse than crap speakers.

 

It's all sitting on a shelf. I need a car I can fit it to.

 

Any of you lot car stereo freaks? Never something I hear mentioned in here.

[ashmicro]

Always liked a good car stereo. I recently got a dickless* one for the Rover. Doesn't play CDs, just USB sticks and memory cards. 4x45 watts is quite enough thank you! The CD/Radio that came with the car was a VDO one, and it was shit. The one it got replaced by was given to me gratis from a scrapyard from a mark 3 Goof, and still works. The dickless one is a good job, as you can get a shit load of music on to 2 or 3 4 gig SD cards.

 

 

*dickless=inevitable tradespeak for "deckless". These are cheap to make as they have no mechanisms, moving parts etc.

[Negative Creep]

Pretty much the first thing I do when I get a new car. Only have a fairly basic JVC head unit at the moment, but a nice pair of Phoenix Gold 17cm components in the front. Do also have some Infinity 3 ways for the rear but thus far I haven't worked out how to get the old speakers out. Also have a 10 inch sub in the boot but it's really not powerful enough for what I use it for so needs an upgrade.

[wackywacerwill]

My best setup is in the tranny.

 

The standard transit door speakers are made to heard over a DI and as such ain't too shabby since mine has the twink lump up front. In the back I removed and binned the shite minibus cracklers and put in a set of 6x9 pieneels that were in my metro which was the first car I legally drove on the road. These speakers are the cornerstone of my auto audio and have graced many cars/vans over the years.

The headunit is class in a glass, Lidls own Tevion which was bought secondhand for extra pikey points. Sound is understandably not the best but this is made up for by the fact I can plug in my mp3 and control it via a remote all for the princly sum of 10 whole pounds deliverd. Fascia is held in place by a folded mot reminder card as the plastic hooks are broken. Come to think of it it's shit and needs replacing

 

When I find them at the right price i.e free I'll get another headunit and maybe an amp too as I've a boom box in my folks loft that I've never fitted.

[Lord Sterling]

Never really been into set-ups, as long as it sounds Ok, it'll do, though I'll try and upgrade where I can/feel is suitable. The Micra's basic unit didnt sound too bad, but I eventually decided to replace it with a Sony Xplod head unit, it went great with the already good speakers, then, some time back I managed to get my hands on a Micra parcel-shelf with OEM speakers from a higher-specced model. Now it looks/sounds even better, so pretty much a good and successful set-up there.

 

My old 825 Sterling had a high-spec R950 head-unit from a the later mk2 800s, before that I stuck a crappy mk1 unit in it and it sounded terrible, the mk2 unit just improved the way it sounded, certainly went well together with the (eventually replaced) speakers.

 

This new 827 Sterling has got me a bit flummoxed. It seems to have been rewired, badly, with a Ford spec (Yellow) block connector, the original block it still. I never had a working radio in it but there was one connected, I took it off to use in the 825 Sterling, but upon recently trying it, it didnt work. Nothing did

 

I intend (one day) try and retro-fit an R950 head unit in hopefully.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I am in the "I like a good stereo but won't bother setting it up" brigade. I limit my efforts to getting a headunit that preferably plays SD cards. However, the stupid new sound systems keep restricting your ability to do that. Last year I spent ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EUROS on getting a faec-ia adaptor for my mum's Sirion specially ordered from Germany. I fully expect that by now she will have had a garage take it out, together with the AEG headunit that I had installed, because she can't be bothered to RTFM on how to tune the radio or something completely daft like that.

 

For the moment, I am keeping the RDS 7000 on the Scorpio, but I am toying with the idea of an MP3 adaptor.

[Rod/b]

You can put a decent system together for buttons. I recently had to bin my Saab 900 in Vienna for a variety of reasons, but that had in the back a set of decent JBL 6x9s (10 quid, Cash Converters), a 2x12" sub enclosure (20 quid, eBay) all powered by a decent 1000w amp (25 quid, eBay). Up front was a new Sony HU and dash speakers that came with the car. It all sounded fuggin excellent. The HU came home in my hand luggage and the rest of it was a gift to the scrapper.

 

I'll be straight down cash converters for a bargain set up for next years car when i'm back next April

[ashmicro]

Sound* advice on Cash Converters. The Belfast one is stuffed with dirt-cheap consumer electronics - audio, tv, phones, cameras. I scored a BC Rich guitar for 90 bills. The thing is a 2011 model, which went for £400 at retail, and it looks new.

[gdhaydock]

Seemingly like others, I like a nice quality sound without going stupid.

 

I've usually changed the head unit for a reasonable aftermarket unit with either SD card reader or ipod controls and upgraded the standard door / dash speakers to whatever will fit in the holes that I can aquire at a reasonable price.

 

However the '98 discovery I have, still has its stock system, i've never heard anything like it in anything of that vintage, its a Harmon Kardon badged alpine system with about 12 speakers and still puts modern stuff to shame. Pity it doesn't have an ipod input as the CD changer is starting to get a bit temperamental.

[Rod/b]

The standard kit in my LR2 is GR12.6666 and i won't be changing it. It's the low-end install too.

[trigger]

I've got this fancy Kenwood stereo in my Mondeo, It came with the car when i bought it, It's a Sat Nav, Parrot handsfree and DVD player but i only use it for the ipod.

 

 

It also has TV's in the back but I've never used them, My Golf has a really nice Kenwood CD player with a AUX jack in i bought of ebay recently for £22 delivered which sounds GR8 and my Kadett just has the orginial radio still but somehow managing to run FM frequency but it does sound pretty poor through it's single 9" Pioneer speaker under the dash.

[Pillock]

I'm on the lookout for a bluetooth head unit - all my music is in "TEH CLOUDZ" and my phone streams it from Google Music. So I need a cradle for the phone ideally that charges it too.

Just found a £220 RRP Kenwood BT jobbie on Gumtree for £45 but it's gone already. Boo. Not keen on low-end jobs, I had a Whorefdale from Argos which randomly let go of one of the output channels, and the microphone was crap.

 

Ideally I want one of the new Parrot Android ones for full integration but they're £300. Nice kit though, single DIN full GPS satnav audio phone job.

[warren t claim]

Hmm... The W124 is still fitted with its original Blaupunkt radio cassette that I'm reluctant to change because the radio reception is fantastic and it cost the cars first owner a lot more than I paid for the whole car.

[andrew e]

You can put a decent system together for buttons. I recently had to bin my Saab 900 in Vienna for a variety of reasons, but that had in the back a set of decent JBL 6x9s (10 quid, Cash Converters), a 2x12" sub enclosure (20 quid, eBay) all powered by a decent 1000w amp (25 quid, eBay). Up front was a new Sony HU and dash speakers that came with the car. It all sounded fuggin excellent. The HU came home in my hand luggage and the rest of it was a gift to the scrapper.

 

I'll be straight down cash converters for a bargain set up for next years car when i'm back next April

 

What about the staff speaker test method Shame you were playing some RITE SHITE through it all eh

[Father Ted]

 

Standard Nissan speakers F&R, though the rear shelf ones are a scrapyard special as my Profile didnt come with rear speakers as standard.

The Ripspeed cost £54 clearance bargain ftom Halfrauds and I was going to get a deckless as I just wanted something to play MP3's and Radio 4 but this was too cheap to turn down, so now I hide in the car watching crap Carry on films and BUGS.