Old car - new sound
Ponyman
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Hi guys & gells. Slightly different to your normal sort of questions I guess but I'm hoping someone can give me a little advise.
I've got a 32 year old Rover P6, which in its day was a middle class executive saloon. I've recently purchased a Blaupunkt DAB 52 Woodstock which is a DAB radio, CD & MP3 player. The power output is quoted as 4 x 25 W RMS. My next requirements are for speakers.
This car was from before the time when car door construction anticipated fitting speakers & before I go hacking my pride and joy about, I'm wanting a little (OK - a lot of) advise about fitting them! I was initially thinking of a 4 speaker setup with two on the rear shelf & two in the front doors. However I'm usually on my own in the car and along with another thread that suggested that rear speakers can spoil the soundstage I'm wondering if I should just stick with front ones. I'm thinking of some good quality multi-axle jobs - I used to have a car with some nice Infinities (what is the difference between the Reference & Kappa range by the way?) so unless anyone has any better suggestions then it's to Infinity that I'd first be looking. I may at some stage decide to add external amplification so the speakers need to have some useful headroom.
I'm also interested in a subwoofer. The idea of fitting a base tube to the boot sounds good to me at the moment as I wouldn't have to hack the car about too much. However as well as running an old car, I'm er 'old' myself and having the whole car jumpin' to The White Stripes latest would look distinctly uncool at my age - I'm really wanting to contain the sound within the car rather than broadcasting it to the general public - again any advise would be very welcome.
Many thanks
I've got a 32 year old Rover P6, which in its day was a middle class executive saloon. I've recently purchased a Blaupunkt DAB 52 Woodstock which is a DAB radio, CD & MP3 player. The power output is quoted as 4 x 25 W RMS. My next requirements are for speakers.
This car was from before the time when car door construction anticipated fitting speakers & before I go hacking my pride and joy about, I'm wanting a little (OK - a lot of) advise about fitting them! I was initially thinking of a 4 speaker setup with two on the rear shelf & two in the front doors. However I'm usually on my own in the car and along with another thread that suggested that rear speakers can spoil the soundstage I'm wondering if I should just stick with front ones. I'm thinking of some good quality multi-axle jobs - I used to have a car with some nice Infinities (what is the difference between the Reference & Kappa range by the way?) so unless anyone has any better suggestions then it's to Infinity that I'd first be looking. I may at some stage decide to add external amplification so the speakers need to have some useful headroom.
I'm also interested in a subwoofer. The idea of fitting a base tube to the boot sounds good to me at the moment as I wouldn't have to hack the car about too much. However as well as running an old car, I'm er 'old' myself and having the whole car jumpin' to The White Stripes latest would look distinctly uncool at my age - I'm really wanting to contain the sound within the car rather than broadcasting it to the general public - again any advise would be very welcome.
Many thanks
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Apologies for this - I seem to have posted it under the wrong section :eek:
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I remember that car from when I lived across the pond. Yours looks to be in excellent condition!!!Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
Ok exatlcy were is across the pond? UK, Germ....etc??? Never seen one of those.
BTW welcome to the forum
PaulLife without music would♭ -
The UK, of course......mate.
The term "across the pond" is generally used by the Brits when refering to the US being across the Atlantic Ocean. I borrowed the phrase.
The Rover was comparable to the average American 4 door sedan from the big 3 of the day.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk
