Interesting Stewart, I upgraded my Pioneer stereo & speakers to a Sony Bluetooth stereo & Focal speakers.
The Pioneer stereo I fitted was at the cheapest end of the range and the Sony an improvement but from what you say its worth spending more especially in a Morgan where the stereo has a more difficult job to be heard.
Having only 2 speakers and a cheaper stereo, I think a Sub would probably make a bigger difference to me so I look forward to your photos and findings.
Yes my first head unit in my last Mog was a pioneer but it only lasted a year and then decided to give up so I went away from Pioneer to Sony and I like Sony’s music centre App on my iPhone which can control the head unit through Bluetooth
But on reflection the bad experience with the Pioneer was probably down to it being a much cheaper unit, it was only about £60 and you probably get what you pay for
I did quite a bit of research before I bought this new head unit and was willing to pay much more if it delivered a noticeable improvement. I was nearly tempted to go for one of Sony’s high power 1 Din units but they’ve had problems with overheating and I didn’t think that was terribly good idea in the footwell of a Mog with absolutely no space behind the heat sink
The Pioneer 80PRS has reference quality converters and although the power on paper looks identical to my Sony, it delivers a much better sound without distortion when cranked up
