Car Audio Help??

[griffin]

hey all. due to a couple blown speakers, and it being an old system anyway, i'm replacing the stereo and speakers completely in my car. not looking for anything extra fancy. my brother told me to look on crutchfield.com, and here's what i'm looking at...

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-8MbhHkcdnXs/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=200&I=700KEHCDXP

or

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-8MbhHkcdnXs/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=200&I=700XRCA10D

and for speakers..

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-8MbhHkcdnXs/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=400&I=065SX50

or

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-8MbhHkcdnXs/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=400&I=049PCE213

really don't want to spend an insane amount of money. i just want it to sound as good or better than the harmon karden system that it currently has (before it was blown of course). any suggestions?

[KinKyJ]

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Cassette player???????? Didn't know they still sold car radio's with cassette players...

Anyway, I got me a Sony car radio about 1,5 yr ago and I'm very happy with the fucker: plays CD-R/MP3 as well and the sound is sweet. I'll look up the type nr if you're interested. Costed only something like 160 euro back then.

[AndyH]

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Just out of interest, what do you listen to on cassettes?

[sammwalk]

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for that kind of money, i have a pair of diamond audio 6 1/2" components in my car which are great; can't remember where i got them, though it was definitely online (and not from ebay). check out www.discountjungle.net for headunits and stuff. i ordered stuff there before and was quite satisfied.

[griffin]

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Just out of interest, what do you listen to on cassettes?

old demos/mix tapes. and when you have a separate cd changer, why not have a tape deck in the head unit just in case? that's my philosophy at least...

[Dhar_2]

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I recently bought the a Kenwood, with the Ipod kit.

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-XbMNfkib1sm/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=300&I=113KDCX689&search=Kenwood+VENDORID113&SearchDisplay=Kenwood

mutts nuts! with d-mask and i can control my ipod while its tucked away. sweet!!

[AndyH]

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old demos/mix tapes. and when you have a separate cd changer, why not have a tape deck in the head unit just in case? that's my philosophy at least...

Cool, cheers..

[mnbvcxz]

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Please don't buy Sony. For head units I'd recommend anything from Alpine. For speakers, Soundstream. Just check out their respective websites for products. Any of them are good, just find your budget. However, the 'tape deck' (whatever that is) could become a problem hehe.

[rainman]

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Please don't buy Sony. For head units I'd recommend anything from Alpine. For speakers, Soundstream.

Agreed. You will be hard pressed to hear anything as clear as Alpine.