MWF
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At the moment I have a competition spec Kenny head unit going to a couple of old Pioneer 6.5's, then an amp of some sort (totally forgotten what it is) going to a 15" Cerwin Vega sub in a bandpass box and also a Phatnoise Mp3 keg.
I do have, and have had for years now, three new QX series Pheonix Gold amps and a couple of unused 12 Diamond Audio M5's which I still need to fit. The Diamonds are great, only need about 0.8 cu ft to work in I think.
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bryn
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so it appears I'm a barry with a low quality car.  Me too! ;D  I love a good tune whilst hooning about, the only concession to the age of my cars I make is accepting increased maintenance and upkeep, well more than might be expected with a newer vehicle. Just because back in the day they didn't have the technology we have today doesn't mean I'm going to deprive myself of enjoying my music for fear of being branded with a name or two. Do you think BMW would get away with fitting a radio cassette and a couple of poxy speakers today in a five series? No. So seeing as I've upgraded brakes, suspension, engine etc. Why not upgrade the interior comforts too? An M5 engine singing through a stainless system is a pleasure, but so is my CD/Minidisc/MP3, amped and subbed install. And I have the choice between the two. For all my stripped out cars I've always used a personal player of some sort, anything over a 300-400 mile stretch in one go means you're going to need earplugs or you'll do damage anyway, so why not have earplugs with music? Music can transport you to places just like a good car, so when I'm sat in traffic on the M42 on a dingy wet November evening, I can mentally be somewhere else with my choice of music. For all your, 'my exhaust/engine is my music comments'... Try 35K a year solo in a retro with no proper tunes.  |
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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I'm always paranoid about putting loads of kit in a car, without an alarm etc, on the bike I see smashed windows almost daily . and even though I love choons on the move - good place to sing sing sing ;D I have never cobbled enough good kit to do it propperly. Once I have worked out what I'm driving for the next 6 months we'll see... Damn I miss my CD's |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts  |
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MWF
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I had a Sony amp and 12" Sub robbed from my Mini a few years back, gutting, however driving around with your stereo blasting is just advertising it to thieves. Same as sticking big speakers in your parcel shelf.
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bryn
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I know what you mean about security, but for that reason anything that I've installed has always been completely hidden. If there's an original head unit already in place I always leave it and hide the new one. I never cut door cards for speakers and CDs etc are always burnt copies of the originals I have at home, plus they're hidden too...
If there's a speaker grille on display I always swap them for a stock of crappy old branded one's I've got lying around. So a 7x10in Pioneer gets hidden behind a 5in circular Pro-Star or the like. Using accoustic carpet helps too, you can hide anything you want behind that.
One of the most vivid memories I have of my bay window crew cab is listening to Led Zep 'In my time of dying', late at night the driving position meant the steering wheel turned into a drum kit and I was John Bonham. A 15in sub under each seat added the stage effect, business. ;D
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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Yeah 'advertising' is never good. depends what sort of car it looks like too, although not too sporty, my Mk1 Fiesta Ghia Ooozed 'first car' so in that way i was an obvious target, in my sapph i'm just someones dad - even though i'm not!
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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I got a sony mp3 thingy head unit, bought it cos it was silver n black and looked good in the golf! Also uprgraded the fronts to JBL 6x4's, and on the parcel shelf (to replace the wibblepoo ones that someone butchered the parcel shelf for) i got some 6.5 inch Fly 3 way jobbies! Also got an MTX 12inch sub and a sony amp, but the sub is too huge for the golfs boot, rendering it useless, so ive never bothered!
In the polo i have a hole in the dash where the radio was, holes in the parcel shelf and doors where the speakers were too, got it like that, so my ICE in that bad boy is my mp3 player phone with my big fat tasty sennheiser headphones!
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in the benz .... nothing
in the 411 .... nothing
and in the bug there will be .... nothing
however, i do intend on getting a cd player and fitting some speakers to the benz if i keep it.
and just yesterday (while reading the pimp my ride thread) i drifted off into thinking about a tv in the 411 for the shows (this idea was quickly dismissed by me however, for the meantime ;D )
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Oh I forgot the Cortina!  It still has its one dash speaker and one DIY install of some Grundig speaker pod in the passenger footwell! ;D |
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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Stu
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I upgraded my Mk1's non-working MW/LW mono radio for a fantasticly cheesy late 80's radio cassette unit with a digital display - how modern! It's one of those where the face doesn't come off but the whole radio pulls out of the cage thingy... naff I know, but handy 'cos at shows I can remove it and slot the old radio back in the hole to look nice and period. Can't imagine walking around the shops with it though, even as it has a carrying handle, as it weighs a ton! In any case you can't hear it at above about 2k rpm at the carbs are far bigger and louder than the speakers... ;D I'm not really into 'ICE', something that'll pick up Ken Bruce on Radio 2 will do me. |
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so it appears I'm a barry with a low quality car. You knows it My comment wasn’t meant to be read that if you do care about ICE then you are a no-brain fool driving a barried-up S*xo, just that here it seems to come a fair way down on the list of priorities car-wise (rightly IMO). For me it’s more the case that I’m too lazy to do anything much, and I’m not doing the mileage in any one car to warrant very much effort. Bryn’s argued a good case for decent set-up, I guess he hasn’t done it to have impromptu sound-offs in the local burger place or crooz around the one-way system endlessly every night of the week in order to impress 15-yr olds (have you Bryn?). When I was younger and used to do higher mileage music was more important in my cars, and certain CDs/tapes always evoke memories of a particular car or even journey. Even then it was no more than a £100 Sharp jobbie and a pair of Audioline speakers (maybe four if the holes were already there). The South African Skyline I had a while back had a great standard-fit stereo, Pioneer (IIRC) double-deck thing with remote controls built into the dash surround either side of the wheel. |
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I'm with bryn - if its the 'right' cars
having a race inspired, or car modified to go quicker, that then has ICE is pointless imho.
my benz needs tunes, ive just been too lazy to get it sorted.
saturdays just arent complete without radio5live!! ;D
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I've got two JBL 6x9's and a shonky old Wharfedale head unit in the Bug, it's pretty useless at anything over 50mph... Road noise and twin carbs are my entertainment  There's an old Kenwood amp, a couple of unknown speakers and a sub of unknown origin in the back but they've never worked  Does the job for daily looning about, but I'd be happy if there was nowt in there really |
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Last Edit: Nov 3, 2006 17:09:13 GMT by Deleted
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I've just bought a "Koyo" new in the box with built in speaker from somewhere in the 60's to fill the hole in the dash, should put it in and take some pics. I don't think it will be able to make itself audible over the engine and drivetrain though...
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ehrm well mine is kinda non egsistant at the moment as I was trying to install a mk3 center console to hold the head unit.....as I stupidly junked the mk1 unit a week after I bought the car  volvo 460 head unit, volvo speakers riveted into the rear tinwork and the fronts were some crusty old pioneer things out another volvo  cable tied to the underside of the dash FTW (my car should come with a health and safety warning) hence the fire extinguisher  |
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Last Edit: Nov 3, 2006 17:31:12 GMT by samyboy
 once again rocking with 1117cc and 4 gears! |
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Hirst
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Let's hear it for the Charmant:  One of these was in the Mira but I've changed it back to something else temporarily while I can be bothered to mount it properly and sort out some sort of security cover for it to hide it. It's the top of the line radio for the Mira range in Japan, has TV and all sorts. Plus a crazy motorized front that flips down to reveal a tape deck. Got it super cheap, very cheesy! Japanese spec radios are like the best kept secret of eBay, they get ripped out of Toyota Previas etc. all the time to replace it with a UK one, mine cost about £40 if I recall.  To be honest all I have the radio for is listening to while I let the car run down or stuck in traffic etc. Barely ever drive with music on. |
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tigran
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Show me your soundstigran
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Didn't mean to come across as thinking anyone with ICE is a chav/barry whatevAr. I have a nice set up in the focus with a topend alpine cd/sat nav headunit, all 4 oe speakers replaced with infinity 2 ways and a set of jbl titanium tweets up front. I love to crank the music up in it. However the capri is stripped out to the max and it would only be curse word, tinny noise that would come out. So yah.
On another note one of my friends who is a seriously awesome driver always has his music cranked up when ragging the car so that he can't hear any noise being made by the car, am I the only one who needs to listen to what the car' doing when really pressing on?
Thoughts.
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2002 BMW E46 330Ci
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so it appears I'm a barry with a low quality car. Yep ;D ;D Standard stereo in pretty much most of my cars. The monza was standard but it didnt work, so I fitted the cheapest one I could find with an input to plug my MP3 player into before C.A.R.S. Macro`s finest, Roadstar for £50. That little baby can produce 40W per channel. The speakers can handle 5W PMPO so its quite the tool ;D My main stereo these days is in my garage, rather good quality and rather loud it is too, just as well I don't have much in teh way of neighbours |
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bryn
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All comments taken in jest of course ;D
I've never tried to impress 15yr olds (well, not since I was 13 anyway), and I've spent far too much time covering cruises and other dodgy nocturnal activities for magazines to dare venture down that road...
As I spend a lot of time on my own in a car, music is my drug. Although to completely go against everything I've said I remembered this afternoon I drover 16K through the winter of 04/05 in a BMW with no stereo whatsoever. Go figure?
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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There's an old Kenwood amp, a couple of unknown speakers and a sub of unknown origin in the back but they've never worked 
