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Listened to Duke Ellington's Queen's Suite while driving through Snowdonia this afternoon.
It was just purrrrrfect!!!

I didn't see you and I was same location ! I'm not sure a radio would be any good in my CVH powerd car But I have done all the sound insulation this week ( Hardura) and the car is VERY much quieter on the move !

Really???
Went through A494 then incredible B4501
Resting now in Liverpool. Tomorrow = Peak District + Stoke on Trent.

Cheers,
Vladimir

I suggest to record the sound of the exhaust, to burn a CD, like that you can listen in your insulated Mog the motor or the music!!!

I remember in the sixties listening the sound of the Grand Prix motorcycles at Isle of Man on a 33 rpm record.

You would have passed near to us yesterday outside of Chester.

Good one Peter very interesting report.

Talking of old sound tracks of Grand Prix motorcycles at Isle of Man on a 33 rpm record from the 60's. Jogged my memory banks and a flash back of my Action Man 33rpm record and pushing a tank round on the carpet one Christmas morning, Thank you a brilliant flash back!!!
Any one else have that classic record "Action Mans his name....." and the B side battle sounds

Yes, I have changed Morgan's

I don't have these vinyls, they belonged to a friend when I was student and we listened the music of the Honda six, MV 3, Yamaha 4... dreaming of the oportunity to pilot one of these bikes. On Sunday the internal road of the university offered us a good private race track with an Honda 305 and a BSA Gold STAR, 2 opposite worlds.

Souvenirs : Phil read, Bill Ivy, Agostini ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNew83i4XOY

OK, test installation completed and functions checked.

Driving back from Absolute Audio in Amesbury with Test Match Special on BBC DAB Sports Extra clear and undistorted was a complete joy.

To all those who say that a radio is pointless in a Mog I say "Get a proper installation".

DAB works perfectly, FM is OK, I've not tried the CD and iPod connection yet.

What have I used? as mentioned in the first post:

1. Alpine CDE 136 BT head unit. About £220, it does everything.
1a. Alpine Remote: essential given Morgans "hidden Radio" position.... £40.00
2. Standard Morgan antenna, about £8.00
3. Active Aerial DAB/FM splitter, £34.99 from dabonwheels
4. Pioneer TSG 1022 Dual Cone 4" Speakers, about £40.00
5. A box of Dynamat X-treme sound adsorption mat, £150.00
5a A new pack of blades for the stanley knife: you'll need this to cut the Dynamat!
6. New side and end carpet for the drivers side footwell, the trimmer had used so much contact adhesive that it came away in bits. £50.00 from Williams, brilliant Service from Austin.

About £600.

The sound adsorption mat is important, it reduces road noise very noticably and makes conversation without raising voices easy up to about 60mph. It also makes the footwells cooler.

You will see no mention of a Sub Woofer. I talked to Jason at Absolute about this. He advised not to bother. The Alpine SWE1200 is great and will sound fantastic in a stationary car. But in their experience in open cars the bass boost from small units like the Alpine is lost once moving above 50 mph. I'd need to spend much more and put a big sub and Amp on the parcel shelf. Not something I want to spend another £400 or so on.

I lined out the footwells completly, the sides of the transmission tunnel, the floor, insides the doors. I still have to line out under the seats, the back pannel and parcel shelf. One box of 9 sheets is 72 sq ft and "just" enough. I may need one additional sheet for the parcel shelf.

The DAB Splitter works very well with the standard Morgan Antenna, from Amesbury, just north of Salisbuty, it will pull in BBC Radio Gloucester, which is exceptinal. The BBC and national DAB stations are all pin sharp and undistorted. Only the DAB Radio in my BMW is better, and for the price it jolly well should be.

Nothing to do now but enjoy it.