Ask and you shall receive ...Photo of your Rambler would be appreciated....... I love all automobiles. The older the better. Big fan of the old Nash/AMC vehicles.
Ask and you shall receive ...Photo of your Rambler would be appreciated....... I love all automobiles. The older the better. Big fan of the old Nash/AMC vehicles.
Very nice. Looks like a near untouched survivor. Looks like on of their dependable straight sixes under hood?
Given I tend to drive older vehicles, I pretty much upgrade the sound system to some degree immediately.
The outlier would be my Chevy Volt: I specifically bought one without the factory Bose stereo as I knew I'd be upgrading almost everything. That car was tricky, given the integrated nature of the vehicle. Beyond that, there was no aftermarket harness available for the OE radio, so I spent hours sourcing both the male and female pigtails which I wired to an Alpine KTP-445 mini 4-channel amplifier. I also used an active hi-lo converter to send RCA signals to a 1500W mono amplifier powering two Image Dynamics 12" woofers.
Beyond that, I replaced the front door speakers with component mid-range 6.5's, and replaced the factory A-pillar tweeters with aftermarket units. Every piece of the system was designed to be both reversible and retain factory appearance.
My Reatta came with a full set of JL speakers installed, with wiring in the trunk for both a mono amplifier and a 2-channel amplifier to power the front door speakers. I purchased a micro 3-ch amp and re-wired the rear speakers to run off the amp instead of the HU. I'll soon be adding a compact 8" sub enclosure which will be powered by the sub output of said amp.
It’s hard to work with newer cars but usually can be done. I consider anything that replaces the head unit to be unacceptable btw. What car is it? There may be devices that can interface it with a good aftermarket amp and DSP like AF Helix if you ever cared to play with it. The DSP is the key. Upgrading an amp and speakers without EQ and crossover control is basically a waste. There’s a real possibility you end up worse than stock.In my current ride, I just leave it stock. It has a slew of speakers and a Bose system, but it’s still kind of mediocre at best. Because it’s a 2017, and it’s kind a rare, not even Crutchfield offers an aftermarket solution.
I'm with you. I hate the look of an aftermarket stereo headunit with its mismatched lighting and the way so many of them stick out from the dash. And who knows what kind of hacked wiring there is behind it! I'm not enough of an audio buff to require anything better than the factory setup. That said however, my newest vehicle (my WRX) probably has the worst stereo system out of all my cars. I am slowly upgrading the speakers to the optional Kicker speakers and sub which fortunately are 100% plug-and-play since it was an OEM option on the premium models.Factory in everything. In my opinion anything on a vehicle that isn’t stock takes away from the value tremendously so I keep everything stock. Plus anything aftermarket no matter what it is usually doesn’t look good.
Agree…but in HS and beyond it was always some sort of Japanese head unit and Jensen 6x9 coax with an addl amp. Seems not needed today. I recall when I had a Porsche the head unit was Soundstream but I can’t recall the speaker mfg, as factory was tossed. Maybe they were also soundstream but don’t think so. All 4 of our cars have the optional sound (maxima with bose junked this year).Our current cars both have factory equipment in them. I think my days of buying extra equipment are over.
Are you satisfied with your factory equipment or have you decked your vehicle out with extra amplifiers, speakers, a different head unit?