Posted by bandi WITH THE LITTLE JOYSTICK!!!

Yup, the joystick!

When my father replaced the Infinity deck we had in our '89 Caravan and upgraded to a Infinity CD deck, he gave me the old one thinking whats the worse thing that a 8 year old could do. I fixed the problem he was having with the joystick.

My '87 Daytona Pacifica had some Audiovox/Chrysler tape deck that was pretty awesome.

Any 1st gen ('84-'86) Daytona/Laser with the premium sound system (I forget what they called it) had these stupid buttons that NEVER worked. Ditto with the buttons on the "elapsed time chronometer"... or "clock" as most would call it. Getting the proper time set just meant hooking your battery up at noon.

Posted by jeepdave http://farm6.stati...078_72a4c03edb.jpg http://www.blujay..../3927368_s1_i1.jpg Who remembers this company....................I know I do..............

wow, sparkomatic, first i always remember anyting with matic in the name was pretty cheap, i remember looking at that crap in the canadian tire catalog and thinking the red things in the speakers looked like everready 9v batteries

Posted by bandi I lol'd.... simply because, in about 1991, my dad decided to swap out the 1 speaker AM radio (with digital tuner!) in our '86 Caravan for a "better" unit. My mom and I were pretty excited for the possibility of a CD player. My dad bought this horrible Sparkomatic tape deck (with analog tuner), with 2 Sparkomatic speakers... (And that Craig 8-Track is awesome... I want one for one of my classic VWs)

my aunts old dodge shadow had the "upgraded" 4 speaker system, the wiring harness actually had the center dash speaker wiring!

Posted by bandi Any 1st gen ('84-'86) Daytona/Laser with the premium sound system (I forget what they called it) had these stupid buttons that NEVER worked. Ditto with the buttons on the "elapsed time chronometer"... or "clock" as most would call it. Getting the proper time set just meant hooking your battery up at noon.

Funny you mentioned those...

http://www.allpar....ovox-QL/index.html

Allpar just posted that the other day.

Posted by bandi I lol'd.... simply because, in about 1991, my dad decided to swap out the 1 speaker AM radio (with digital tuner!) in our '86 Caravan for a "better" unit. My mom and I were pretty excited for the possibility of a CD player. My dad bought this horrible Sparkomatic tape deck (with analog tuner), with 2 Sparkomatic speakers... (And that Craig 8-Track is awesome... I want one for one of my classic VWs)

my dad has a couple around the garage. One of them found its way into the 79 Thunderbird, just to be 'retro'.

in "the pile" i still have the monsoon from the sunfire, 2 radios from the both grand prix, the ford radio from the mazda a delco am fm stereo (no tape deck) from my 83 j2000 le and the craptastic radio from the cavalier is somewhere back there too lol

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! in "the pile" i still have the monsoon from the sunfire, 2 radios from the both grand prix, the ford radio from the mazda a delco am fm stereo (no tape deck) from my 83 j2000 le and the craptastic radio from the cavalier is somewhere back there too lol

out in the shed I still have the tape decks from the Lumina, Monte Carlo and Beretta.

my 92 sunbird had that component system, it stayed in the car

Posted by bandi Kenwood stopped making good car audio in like 1990.

Bullshit.

While pretty much no one makes anything decent today, I put a Kenwood KVT-915 in my 2002 Silverado 1500. It is the ONLY thing I could find in 2003 that actually had real parametric EQ's and fully adjustable crossover functions for each of the outputs. This unit was repackaged as the "25th Anniversary Edition" in 2005 or so. I've got the Sirius radio and the iPhone / iPod add on devices. I also have jacks in the center console that allow me to plug in my Samsung Galaxy S and watch videos on the screen. Youtube while rolling down the interstate? Sure! Why not. Likewise, it is a lot easier to monitor the GPS functions on the 7" screen, also.

Anyway, Kenwood still made at least something decent as recently as 2005... since then, I have no comment.

After replacing the door loudspeakers in my truck with Infinity Reference series components, adding the two JL Audio 12"s under the back seat and cranking up a pair of old school PPI competition series amps (one 404 for the highs and one 602 for the subs) and a big pack of capacitors to stabilize the power system, the truck sounds really good. I mean, it is surprisingly good! High quality sources sound very nice in it and you can really tell what is missing from even 192kbps MP3 files.