Hello,

I have a question regarding installing sound into my old car. I have a
1971 Ford with an original, mint dash. Therefore I won't cut the dash to
fit a head unit. My boot (trunk) space is limited by the fact the fuel
tank is mounted there, behind the rear seat. The interior is a 2+2 design
and therefore not too much room. I have thought up two solutions:

1) An amplifier mounted under the passenger seat feeding four speakers.
The amp is fed by one of those small hand-held MP3 player/radios.

2) If active speakers are available for auto use.
A small hand-held MP3 player/radio that feeds four active speakers.

Does anyone know of some components that will allow me to do this? I have
been told by various car audo 'salespersons' that this is no good etc. I
realise this is not going to give me the performance/fidelity that people
in this group expect. My car is a VERY noisy old homologation special so
this solution is really just to get some sort of music. Also extreme power
is not an issue, this car has a 35A alternator!

Cheers, John.

I don't see anything wrong with either idea. However, I'm not sure about
the active speakers. Bose makes them as stock units for other vehicles, but
they tend to be less than straightforward (or even impossible) when
interfacing to non-Bose equipment. An amp in an out-of-the-way place is a
fine idea. There's no reason not to expect good sound as long as the
equipment is all installed correctly. Hopefully you plan on doing what you
can do get 6" speakers, or at least 5's, somewhere in there. Not sure what
you have room for in that car.

wrote in message
rn.ch...

Hello,

I have a question regarding installing sound into my old car. I have a
1971 Ford with an original, mint dash. Therefore I won't cut the dash to
fit a head unit. My boot (trunk) space is limited by the fact the fuel
tank is mounted there, behind the rear seat. The interior is a 2+2 design
and therefore not too much room. I have thought up two solutions:

1) An amplifier mounted under the passenger seat feeding four speakers.
The amp is fed by one of those small hand-held MP3 player/radios.

2) If active speakers are available for auto use.
A small hand-held MP3 player/radio that feeds four active speakers.

Does anyone know of some components that will allow me to do this? I have
been told by various car audo 'salespersons' that this is no good etc. I
realise this is not going to give me the performance/fidelity that people
in this group expect. My car is a VERY noisy old homologation special so
this solution is really just to get some sort of music. Also extreme power
is not an issue, this car has a 35A alternator!

Cheers, John.

Even a set of bass shakers could help out with what Mark mentioned. A small
4 channel and an Aura rig with the Aura digital amp would take up next to no
space and should sound quite good.

Chad

"MZ" wrote in message
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I don't see anything wrong with either idea. However, I'm not sure about
the active speakers. Bose makes them as stock units for other vehicles,
but
they tend to be less than straightforward (or even impossible) when
interfacing to non-Bose equipment. An amp in an out-of-the-way place is a
fine idea. There's no reason not to expect good sound as long as the
equipment is all installed correctly. Hopefully you plan on doing what
you
can do get 6" speakers, or at least 5's, somewhere in there. Not sure
what
you have room for in that car.

wrote in message
rn.ch...

Hello,

I have a question regarding installing sound into my old car. I have a
1971 Ford with an original, mint dash. Therefore I won't cut the dash to
fit a head unit. My boot (trunk) space is limited by the fact the fuel
tank is mounted there, behind the rear seat. The interior is a 2+2 design
and therefore not too much room. I have thought up two solutions:

1) An amplifier mounted under the passenger seat feeding four speakers.
The amp is fed by one of those small hand-held MP3 player/radios.

2) If active speakers are available for auto use.
A small hand-held MP3 player/radio that feeds four active speakers.

Does anyone know of some components that will allow me to do this? I have
been told by various car audo 'salespersons' that this is no good etc. I
realise this is not going to give me the performance/fidelity that people
in this group expect. My car is a VERY noisy old homologation special so
this solution is really just to get some sort of music. Also extreme
power
is not an issue, this car has a 35A alternator!

Cheers, John.