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- From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
- Subject: recommendations for a minivan on a budget?
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- Organization: Morning Star Technologies
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 13:41:18 GMT
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- We're about to take delivery of a Plymouth minivan, so now's the time
- to think about endowing it with sound. Our budget is $800-$1000, and
- we have no desire to build a rolling boom box. Our tastes run to jazz
- (Stanley Turrentine to Woody Herman), blues (Robert Johnson to B. B.
- King), bluegrass, Russian symphonies, and the occasional Beatles, or
- Blood, Sweat, and Tears, or ELP. We don't turn the sound levels up
- very high, but a lot of our music is from "acoustic" instruments that
- we also play ourselves, so precision is important.
-
- We plan to start with something like the Sony XR-U550 (FM/AM/Cassette)
- in the dash, then install decent speakers (6x9 rear, 5.25 front), then
- something like the Sony CDX-U300 CD changer under the driver's seat.
- After all that settles in, we may want to add an amp to provide more
- headroom than the 20W per channel we'll get from the in-dash unit.
-
- What speakers should we use? The last speakers I liked at all were a
- pair of Jensen TS-6905's that were stolen three cars ago, but that
- design must be a generation or two old by now. And besides, a Mustang
- was nothing like a Voyager, so the environment will be all different.
- We don't want any components or speaker enclosures that will take up
- any floor space or protrude from the walls in back, so a giant
- subwoofer cabinet is infeasible.
-
- Any other component suggestions? What else should we be considering?
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