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760 Premium Radio[ALL/1988] posted by Steve on
Thursday, 22 January 1998, at 10:08 p.m.
I have a 1989 764T with the premium sound system. It is 2 pieces with the radio/equalizer in the top slot and and the cassette player in the bottom slot. It has a problem in one channel so I am looking to replace it with a CD unit. The question is what to do with the cassette player. Has anyone found a CD deck which will accept the cassette player as the second unit or do you remove both units and replace the bottom cassette deck with a tray similar to my 940 with the single unit radio. I will need to get someone to do the work on this one. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Re: 760 Premium Radio[ALL/1988] posted by Dave Stevens on
Friday, 23 January 1998, at 1:47 a.m.
There should be no need to run your radio on premium. Regular 87 octane should be more than adequate unless the speakers are pinging. (sorry, couldn't resist)
Re: 760 Premium Radio[ALL/1988] posted by Steve on
Friday, 23 January 1998, at 6:21 a.m.
It used to run ok when I got it 4 months ago but went bad when I put the octane booster in the cassette deck...ok, ok, ok... I guess I should have said what I'm told is the "premium" radio system.
Re: 760 Premium Radio[ALL/1988] posted by Don Willson on
Friday, 23 January 1998, at 5:34 p.m.
I picked up a couple of car audio magazines while looking for alarm systems. In one was a review of 3 double high radios that had cassette and CD. You might check on that.
Re: 760 Premium Radio[ALL/1988] posted by allan on
Friday, 23 January 1998, at 11:23 p.m.
You will not be able to use the cassette player with any aftermarket cd players - not as far as I know, at least. But, as far as upgrading...First, you need to determine whether it is a double din or a 1.5 din opening. A double din is 4" x 7", a 1.5 din 3" x 7".
If it's a double din, then you can put a full din-sized EQ or line driver or some other preamp below a din-sized unit. Or, you could put a double-din cd/cassette player in there. Clarion, Pioneer, and Kenwood, I believe, all make models. There was an article on them in Car Audio And Electronics about two months ago. However, such units aren't really of the highest quality.
If it's 1.5 din, then you could put a regular head unit in there (CD player, I suppose), and still fit a .5 din EQ or something under there. That's what I'm using in my 740 GL - a sony din head unit with a PPI line driver/EQ/MVC below it.
allan chen
Re: 760 Premium Radio[ALL/1988] posted by Steve on
Monday, 26 January 1998, at 6:06 a.m.
Thanks for the help. We bought a JVC single DIN unit which will be installed today. Will leave the dead cassette in place for now but will fix the slot later. Has anyone ever put in an extra tray in the slot or does someone make covers to match the dash? Otherwise I might take the cassette out and go to the workshop and fashion a nice wood cover for the opening.
Re: 760 Premium Radio[ALL/1988] posted by Henry T. Mui on
Tuesday, 27 January 1998, at 2:50 p.m.
Steve,
have you tried to have the unit repair?? See how much that will cost you.
Then purchase a 10 disk (Sony) whatever you like! FM patch in control unit.
The other root is to pull the entire 2 unit out and purchase a good quality
system with a 6,10 or 12 disk Cd unit in the trunk or in the glove box. Then seal the second unit up and use it as a storage area (insert).
I hope this is of some help!
Re: 760 Premium Radio/CD -FM Modulator? I shudder to listen!!![ALL/1988] posted by Stoney on
Wednesday, 28 January 1998, at 8:10 a.m.
I disagree with spending any amount of $ on an FM Modulator CD player! The loss of over 50% of the audio quality is not worth the price. I have installed about 50 of these for friends and customers and refuse to listen to the "bitchin and moanin" 3-6 months later when the owners hear what a "real" CD unit sounds like.
The FM frequencies assigned to these units are also subject to lots of interference and the only good side is they are no great loss when your car gets stripped!
Spend the bucks and get a proper headunit that can play 3 CD's or a proper CD player or minidisk player (the minidisk will fit in the glove box!).
Or if your serious I have a client who would gladly swap the JVC POS he "raved" about last fall (sept.) and begged me to pull last week!
Re: 760 Premium Radio[ALL/1988] posted by chris hibbs on
Tuesday, 27 January 1998, at 5:07 p.m.
There are several ways you can go about this:
1. trade your cd player for one that has a remote control....mount the cd player in the center console and use the remote to control it (This works best if you have a cd changer in the truck so you don't have to open the console to change disks...and detach the power from the existing radio and leave it there [the "stealth" way to do it]. This worked best for me since I have a lot of money tied up in my sound system and no non-stock equipment is visible (I even rewired the l.e.d. in the stock radio to still blink-as a relay with my alarm)...but this is probably too much for the average joe so:
2. any reputable car stereo shop should have someone who could make a custom panel to cover the second hole using black ABS plastic for about $25-35 dollars US. You could even get them to make a larger one that also covers the outer trim ring of your head unit (so it looks a little more professional) or even get fancy and have that panel covered with the burl walnut or rosewood trim to match your dash (if applicable)...I prefer black myself.
I hope some of these thoughts are helpful.