I'm with Peter on this subject: there are times when music is nice to have. Not the radio, but music. But it needs to be good quality.
The Aldermog has no antenna and as far as I can see no speaker wires, no nothing - other than the radio slot on the heater box plated over.
So, how best to do this? Until the advent of "integrated systems" I've put tape players and CD players in all my cars. I have a "totally over the top" home audio system and yes, I still buy and play vinyl... see separate thread!
I’ve thought about the idea and in the end gave up. But this is what I came up with.
There are few good places for speakers. Hi and upper mid range sound is directional, mid to low level is not. Which is why in cars the speakers have the tweeters in the doors high up at the front: clearly impossible in a Morgan, so the best, but sacrilegious, place for a pair of high quality upper mid units is the ends of the dashboard. We need something from Alpine or another high end source, no more than 2” in diameter and capable of handling 200 watts.
The mid range units, of similar quality and able to take high power, can go in the panels just in front of the doors, as high as possible so they don’t get muffled by the driver/passengers legs. Finally a single base unit mounted somewhere at the back, possibly the space behind the driver, using the void that the battery occupies on the other side.
The amplifier is next, about 400 watts per channel,so 2000watts, can probably go in the space above the passengers feet, mounted high up. Finally the head unit, accepting whatever input you like – I’d stick with iPod and USB.
I talked to some specialist installers and someone I know at Naim, who do the audio for Bentleys and concluded that this is going to cost the thick end of £1000 to do properly. The basic Bentley system costs £10K...
But in the end I gave up, mostly because to do properly it makes the car attractive to thieves.
So my decision was to stick with the noise the engine makes.
