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i drove a 79 monte carlo in high school. never had the guts to modify the dash, so my head unit was some janky rear end sony poo poo in a u-shaft formfactor. speakers were a bitch in that car too because the rears were 4x10 instead of the way more standard 6x9
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ugh loving 4x10s, worst. i always ran pioneer decks and speakers in my junkers. 40x4 cassette head and some 6x9's in the back deck lid? yes pls
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Oct 1, 2022 19:56
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i had a sony xplode car stereo in my 1997 ford probe gt 
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Oct 1, 2022 19:57
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Beeftweeter posted:i had a pioneer elite amp and infinity speakers set up for my parents home theater my uncle worked for dolby and had a kit amp home theater thing that he built himself that is probably really good, and I got it when he died but it is loving daunting to think about using/fixing up something that would make me feel really ashamed and terrible if i ruined it
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Oct 1, 2022 20:00
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Corla Plankun posted:my uncle worked for dolby and had a kit amp home theater thing that he built himself that is probably really good, and I got it when he died but it is loving daunting to think about using/fixing up something that would make me feel really ashamed and terrible if i ruined it drat thats pretty cool. does it work at all still?
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Oct 1, 2022 20:16
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nudgenudgetilt posted:i can't remember anyone wanting sony poo poo even from 99 on. it was all about rockford fosgate for everything but the head unit Eclipse JBL Sony Pioneer JJJ CBT Bloods
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Oct 1, 2022 20:39
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Stop listening to the radio at the low volume, get it right. Get the bass.
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Oct 1, 2022 20:40
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I once bought the top trim level blaupunkt stereo from whatever the most expensive ford focus was off of eBay to upgrade the absolutely bottom of the barrel one in my focus. it was the best stereo purchase I’ve ever made my focus was so cheap that I also had to buy a wiper stalk off eBay just to get intermittent wipers, and I also bought an interior lamp with map lights instead of mine that just lit up with the door it’s shocking how low featured that car was.
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Oct 1, 2022 20:47
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seems like tesla is aiming to inherit the explode branding
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Oct 1, 2022 20:55
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i had this one
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Oct 1, 2022 20:59
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Sniep posted:i had this one lol that looks pretty gamery i'm glad all the buttons and displays and poo poo on the elites were amber-ish, that looked pro as gently caress. my parents had the 6-cd changer, tape deck and radio too, so it kinda sucked having to use 5 extremely similar remotes
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Oct 1, 2022 21:04
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nudgenudgetilt posted:i drove a 79 monte carlo in high school. never had the guts to modify the dash, so my head unit was some janky rear end sony poo poo in a u-shaft formfactor. speakers were a bitch in that car too because the rears were 4x10 instead of the way more standard 6x9 holy crap, my first car ever was an 81 Monte Carlo and my second (still in high school) was a 79… whatup Carlo buddy. that car did NOT do well in the snow. and yeah 4x10’s sucked. my 3rd car was an 83 Subaru GL wagon and I swear it had 3x6’s or something hosed in the front. I loved tinkering with my stereo in all my cars but never could get anything good really because of that weird-rear end stock poo poo. I did put a CB in that car though
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Oct 1, 2022 21:10
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my first was an avocado green 79 cutlass hell yes beater v8 sled crew
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Oct 1, 2022 21:23
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oof, my 86 has a sony head unit in it from around ~2000. it's poo poo
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Oct 1, 2022 21:29
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anyone got a recco for a nice double din car stereo with kind of a 90s aesthetic?
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my car's previous owner had no taste at all
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Oct 1, 2022 22:00
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namlosh posted:that car did NOT do well in the snow. it was hella fun on iced over parking lots though
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i still have the monte carlo sitting in a barn at my folks place. it gets fired up occasionally when my dad takes my nephew for rides in it. my dream is to someday do an electric conversion.
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Oct 1, 2022 22:02
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"love the carlo" hehe
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Oct 1, 2022 22:49
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Jonny 290 posted:"love the carlo" lol
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Oct 1, 2022 23:12
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rotor posted:anyone got a recco for a nice double din car stereo with kind of a 90s aesthetic? Not double din, but the sheer ballerness should make up for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMuLRgnmmgk
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Oct 1, 2022 23:23
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I had this sweaty beast back in 2007. Sat radio and bluetooth? Living in the future.
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It was 1997 when I was doing this, so there wasn't even such things yet as Bluetooth or cell phones even for most people
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yeah even aux ins didnt roll up till what, early-mid 00s? cause like what the gently caress were you going to plug into it?
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Oct 2, 2022 00:50
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if you had a tape deck, you could always use one of these beasts i had one for my rca lyra and the beastly 32mb music library i could fit on it. that was like almost an album's worth of music on one card!
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Oct 2, 2022 01:00
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Those sad bluetooths stereos made before A2DP and aptX made the GTA IV experience possible IRL.
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Oct 2, 2022 01:02
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i had a cool head unit in my 89 buick century that flipped around when you turned the car off/on. it was great and it was very important to me back then to have a cd player i never upgraded the speakers or put in an amp, they were always good enough for my/our purposes other than that i've always gone with the stuff that came in my car (plus a maybe a bluetooth adapter or whatever)
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Oct 2, 2022 01:06
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yeah ive never run amps for the full range speakers but i always always put a sealed 10" with like a 250-400w amp. just enough to fill it out except the expedition, which has a factory 10" sub. sounds good too
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Oct 2, 2022 01:14
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i have a sub in my truck now and it owns i missed having actual bass for music that's meant to be heard with pronounced bass
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I spent an unconscionable amount of money on an Alpine head unit for me and my brothers Cavalier around 2003 because it had a dedicated Aux in. Hooked up my minidisc player and felt like king poo poo.
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Oct 2, 2022 01:19
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 It's a sealed 12" JL 12W3v3-4 with the matching JD500/1 amp. no visible branding. and the grate is already getting beat to hell, which is fine. i got 3 big dogs + a house and the trips to home depot that go with it. hence why it's not pristine, i know i need to vac again, but it's a utility vehicle, not show. the sub itself is nice tho and just nestles in between the two 2nd row seatsn at armrest height.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:if you had a tape deck, you could always use one of these beasts these were big for us in the ipod days, or the real pros got a little fm transmitter instead
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Oct 2, 2022 01:21
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you all did way better than me, I had an old Datsun 720 2wd Ute than came out of my grandparents shed and didn’t have FM radio.
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Gentle Autist posted:these were big for us in the ipod days, or the real pros got a little fm transmitter instead no, the real pros used a cassette adapter, because fm stereo rolls off at 15khz and the modulators rarely did proper preemphasis
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the fm adapters were so anemic anyway that if you dropped it on the floor it'd fade/fuzz out
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a fair amount of greybeards have youtube videos up where they retrofit a line in to old rear end factory stock cassette decks. basically if you can get ahold of the schematics (or know electronics well enough to trace it out) you just find a spot where the cassette audio circuit is line level, inject your audio there through a couple of resistors, and use a cassette shell with no tape in it to switch the stereo to tape mode
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nudgenudgetilt posted:if you had a tape deck, you could always use one of these beasts i had one for my lyra, but it was the later model ipod competitor. twice the storage and three times the bulk with a fraction of intuitive controls! the car that was for was totaled in an accident. i was kinda peeved my next one only had a cd player, it was the only downside to an otherwise much better vehicle. i had to get a fm adapter and a splitter to charge too, then jump stations when i'd do multi-state drives
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Jonny 290 posted:no, the real pros used a cassette adapter, because fm stereo rolls off at 15khz and the modulators rarely did proper preemphasis this always pissed me off and my friends would give me poo poo for it since they couldn't hear it or didn't notice
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also i had a 32mb diamond rio lol
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tbh having no treble was probably a blessing in disguise in the days of 64kbps joint stereo mp3s lol
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