Your best ever car radio?
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Alpine CDA-9835 with a Precision Power A600, and Rockford Fosgate Punch 150 amps. Boston Pro 6.4 up front, with a 15"dvc sub that does 104db per watt. That system rocked and would kill you before it clipped.
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Wow! That one looks great just by itself! In my opinion, that's a great way of using MDs. I've never seen such a setup to actually RECORD radio in the carbmw wrote: My favorite after-market radio was one I installed in my 1990 Grand-Am - a Sony MiniDisc Recorder/stereo.
You could record off the radio onto minidiscs with this thing, and it had excellent FM reception, including very good selectivity. Sound quality was excellent too.
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My favorite car radio was my moms 1990 Lesabre, that could easily pick up Cleveland and London stations in Metro Detroit often, also my dads 2004 Ford F150 was really great for getting stations across Lake Michigan. Unfortunately in my 1998 Oldsmobile eighty eight, the reception is awful, can barely pick up anything on AM.
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I rent cars all the time, Chrysler has the best radios. Hyundai is near the worst.
VW used to be good.
VW used to be good.
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They didn't move the tower, they just replaced it. There is no HD.k8jd wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 4:50 pmSince WKAR moved to the tower several miles West of the old site, I cant even get them in Stereo in the house !! forget HD!!Jeff Dugan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 4:37 pmNow if you can find a good formatted HD station to listen to, good luck on that one.k8jd wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 4:27 pmI bought the JVC KD-HDR1 to replace the worn out radio I had in a ford Escort about a decade+ ago when HD AM was pretty new.
The AM side sensitivity was pretty sad but the new HD sound was fascinating for me
I now have it hooked up on my desk , but The power lines and DSL and cable TV behind my house wipe out the AM side.
The FM HD sounds really good with big speakers and the sub channel multicast is pretty interesting to listen to.
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Are people actually expecting "good sound" from a tuner? The signal is compressed and the top octave is chopped; it cannot sound "good", not ever.
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It can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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Definitely a vast improvement over AM. Still not better than Sirius XM though. I mean really. My mom subscribes to it for no practical reason. The reason why you get it is because you either want more kinds of programming, or you want no commercials. She's perfectly fine with commercials on FM, yet she still listens to the same three channels on SXM: Hits 1, Z100, and KIIS. I don't really like her taste in music, first of all, but of course I'd never say it to her face. But she could just use FM, but she still subs to SXM for reasons not even she knows.audiophile wrote:It can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
Anyway, getting back on topic, I hate SXM's compression. It sounds like a tin-can phone. Just use FM. Unless you're getting it for the great programming.
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You can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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They didn't have cell phones with near-flawless audio in 1933FET-500 wrote:You can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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Cellphones and near-flawless what? You're not an engineer I'm going to guess.F-Squared wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:53 amThey didn't have cell phones with near-flawless audio in 1933FET-500 wrote:You can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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Blaming that on Howard Stern.... He has all of their money. They're out or bandwidth.F-Squared wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:37 pmDefinitely a vast improvement over AM. Still not better than Sirius XM though. I mean really. My mom subscribes to it for no practical reason. The reason why you get it is because you either want more kinds of programming, or you want no commercials. She's perfectly fine with commercials on FM, yet she still listens to the same three channels on SXM: Hits 1, Z100, and KIIS. I don't really like her taste in music, first of all, but of course I'd never say it to her face. But she could just use FM, but she still subs to SXM for reasons not even she knows.audiophile wrote:It can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
Anyway, getting back on topic, I hate SXM's compression. It sounds like a tin-can phone. Just use FM. Unless you're getting it for the great programming.
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Phones often lack bass response, FM tuners themselves do not.FET-500 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:51 amYou can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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A 59 used Sapphire radios as stock, not Blaupunkt. They were a popular aftermath option.
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