Re: [alfa] Car Audio Question

[Benjamin Kaupp <bkaupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's exactly what I'm doing in my car. I have a Denon 2 channel amp 
in my trunk running to two Alpine speakers in the original locations. 
Then I just have a little Radio Shack wire that comes out from under my 
carpet along the transmission tunnel. Until someone stole my CD player, 
I was running it to a cheapo Sony Discman. But when Santa/Chanukah Bob 
comes (don't know which friend is coming through for me) I plan on 
hooking it to my iPod. I've actually figured out a way to hide the Pod 
under the ashtray and have it totally disguised and hardwired, yet 
still removable for theft/portability reasons. Volume control is fine, 
only issue is fiddling with the voltage of the amp to find the best 
compromise between SQ and SPL (er... quality and volume for non-import 
tuner multiple subwoofer types). Without measuring, I think I'm 
somewhere around 3v. The only thing you have to be careful about is 
running a switch and remembering to turn the amp on and off (or 
tricking the power on to the ignition or some such idea... I'm gonna 
put pix on my site soonish, I'll mention it on the list..

-Ben Kaupp
'78 Spider (currently running music from my PowerBook G4... it's kinda 
nice to have your own drive-in, too)

On Nov 30, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Larry Rose wrote:


> There have been references in passing to hidden or secret car audio 
> systems,
> but nothing that's convinced me one way to go is the best.  So how 
> about
> this:
>
> What if I got a portable AM/FM/MP3 player, which range in size from 
> Ipod size
> to cell phone size, hard wire a power converter, and run a line from 
> the ear
> bud port to an inexpensive amplifier in the trunk, which would power 
> the usual
> in-door speakers?
>
> The portable player becomes the head unit, it can hold 2-5 hrs of 
> music, and
> there's a radio, and I'd bet the audio quality will satisfy me -- I 
> certainly
> wouldn't want to drown out the exhaust sounds.
>
> Will this work?
>
>      Larry Rose
>     1973 Berlina
> Two Cams, No Cupholders
>
>
>
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