Re: [AMC-List] AM radio computer MP3 player...

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with the big click loud part! That's one reason I was happy to get the Factory 4 disc changer for my truck on Ebay. It is a lot closer to that then the aftermarket stuff. I put the sony unit in the American because I thought it was a good idea at the time. After having it for a while I realize that I don't and probably won't ever fool with all it's little intacite workings. The single knob is hard to grasp, the little writing beside pushbuttons impossible to read! I typically use th eremote as at least I can figure out the few buttons on it and how to get it to do what I want it to do!
  I'm quite happy with it's Rambler mentality sound system, except for the head unit [$195] it is all low cost stuff. Two Flea market Jensen 10" subs in a box behind the rear seat powered by a cheap Jensen 300 watt max amp $50 all. Two 8" Poly Radioshack home woofers and two 4 1/2 two way [I forget the brand or cost] in the front doors. On the rear deck are two surface mount three ways from radio shack $69.99. The rear deck speakers are driven by a dinky 40 watt jensen amp. I splt the sound in the front doors with some old home speaker crossovers mounted under the dash. Sony unit has 4 volt preamp out puts, with a seperate one for the subs with seperate controls. Surprisinlgy for has low buck as it is with a litttle fiddling even my 15 year old son thinks it sounds good. I like to turn it up some at times, but I like the bass to just be solid, not the overpowering stuff the kids like. Best part of the system is except for the head unit and the surface mount rear speakers it !
 is all hidden behind the rear seat and behind the tweed door panels! The headunit has a removable face so if on the rare occasion I park it somewhere and take the face plate it is pretty much invisible. Besides, no self respecting audio thief would take anything but the head unit anyway as in their mind the rest of it is CRAP!
  Thae Ambassador is getting a factory AM/FM and some speakers. I wish I had the wherewithall to get one of the two I have working!
 
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 06:08 -0700, Mark Price wrote:
> > Us old guys with high frequency hearing loss don't notice much if you
> > record at the highest resolution [or whatever they call it!]. I
> > personally don't have the patience to do more than burn some mix CDs
> > from windows media! My kids have their desktops jammed with stuff and
> > MP3 players, one has an IPOD. It's all status symbol crap. But kinda
> > neat in it's own way. My Sony head unit in the American has an IPOD
> > input, never tried to use it. The Cd changer in the Cherokee has MP3
> > disc capability times 12 discs, never tried to do it either! Just to
> > d@mn#d! old and grouchy!
> 
> Probably right on the mp3 high-freq part. A car is a lousy place to
> listen to music, also, anything loud enough sounds good!
> 
> I like old cars mainly for the simplicity. I have to have an intimate
> relationship with it's workings; that's fine, I like that. But I wanted
> a sound system that was 100% in line what what makes driving 40 year old
> cars so good, that brutally stripped down clean functionality mixed with
> decent (occasionally good) design.
> 
> Car controls are BIG, pull, push, CLICK; lever move inches, switches
> click loudly, are made of metal and big plastic, body color or chrome or
> black. I didn't want a delicate, flimsy, thief-inviting,
> confetti-colored thing with microscopic fussy little controls. I wanted
> BIG KNOBS GO CLICK. Cars are body prosthetics, a physical world, not a
> virtual one.
> 
> I did get rather carried away with it. It's the sort of stuff I make
> though, other than cars, and I teach this stuff to grad students, so
> it's the sort of thing I can pick at and get done over time.
> 
> 
> (I wish my Rambler was old enough to have a tube AM radio.)
> 
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