Radio Replacement

[justintime]

Took some pictures of my radio replacement that I thought I would share with everyone. I kept the old radio and amp in case someone wanted to put back in. New DVD, CD, XM Radio, speakers and subwoofer. The sound is fantastic. All I had before was the Delco radio with cassette and terrible stock speakers Removed complete interior, soundproofed as well.
Steve

 

[Stuart]

The in-dash unit looks great. I'm not a big fan of huge speakers and an amp taking up most of the trunk space but to each his own. You did a fantastic job with the install, it looks very neat, like your whole car. Must sound fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

 

[surfer93]

What brand and model did you go with?

 

[LT4man]

Looks fabulous!

LT4man

 

[justintime]

I agree, hated to take up the room.I put the XM receiver where the old delco amp was. The alpine amp is small doesn't take up much room, subs are a different story. Went as small as I could, dual shallow Pioneer 10". I really didn't need dual subs but I had one already, purchased another rather than a dual cone single sub which is very deep. Head unit is also Pioneer. I still have room to carry some things if need be, but not a lot. Everything is easily removable to go back to stock. If anyone has done something different with a sub I would like to know. I don't listen to loud thumping music, just like quality sounding music. I'm an old fart.

 

[Rogue]

Been there done that with my other cars.

To get good, realistic bass you must move the mass of air to produce that sound. You do that with either size of driver and area in which the driver can work in. Bose works with area to produce bass from relatively small drivers. However, they do this with a lot of measuring of sound waves in which their drivers will be installed as well as tuning in both their drivers and amplifiers with active equalizers. Something most ordinary folks and installers just can't duplicate without lots of $$'s. That's why Bose is Bose--Sound through Research, you know.

Since us ordinary Plebians do not have access to all that scientific and mathematical algorythms regarding the sound in our cars, we must rely on the old fashioned way of producing good sound: Size and power for bass, clarity and balance for mids and highs. So the only way to get the great sounding, clear, strong deep (not annoying booming) bass, is to get the large drivers and high power amps to produce that sound.

Nice job!

 

[CLABORN1960]

I agree, hated to take up the room.I put the XM receiver where the old delco amp was. The alpine amp is small doesn't take up much room, subs are a different story. Went as small as I could, dual shallow Pioneer 10". I really didn't need dual subs but I had one already, purchased another rather than a dual cone single sub which is very deep. Head unit is also Pioneer. I still have room to carry some things if need be, but not a lot. Everything is easily removable to go back to stock. If anyone has done something different with a sub I would like to know. I don't listen to loud thumping music, just like quality sounding music. I'm an old fart.

did you go with 6X9 speakers in the rear? what size in the front 4X6? I am looking to replace my system next month, so I am curious what speaker sizes did you use.....

 

[justintime]

Used Pioneer D Series, 6.5" rear, 4" front. They do make a 4x6 for the front in a different series, but I don't really think you'll hear the difference.

 

[CLABORN1960]

Used Pioneer D Series, 6.5" rear, 4" front. They do make a 4x6 for the front in a different series, but I don't really think you'll hear the difference.

what would it sound like minus the subwoofers?

 

[justintime]

For my ears anyway I think you loose alot of depth and low end without some kind of subwoofer. Not sure what your replacing but in my situation the stock Delco radio with cassette had to go. Why they even put such a radio in a car of such caliber in it's time is beyond me.

 

[CLABORN1960]

For my ears anyway I think you loose alot of depth and low end without some kind of subwoofer. Not sure what your replacing but in my situation the stock Delco radio with cassette had to go. Why they even put such a radio in a car of such caliber in it's time is beyond me.

I have the factory Bose..... and I know I will have to put a subwoofer in, just trying to decide if I want to do it all at once or do the unit and speakers first, then the subwoofer later...

 

[justintime]

I have heard the Bose sounds pretty good. Never have listened to one myself. I also here it's tricker to replace the Bose system.

 

[CLABORN1960]

I have heard the Bose sounds pretty good. Never have listened to one myself. I also here it's tricker to replace the Bose system.

yeah it was a good system, but 2 of the speakers don't work and the cassette player has stopped working..... so its time for an upgrade...