Anyone Still Running their Stock Stereo?
08-16-10, 09:32 PM
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Anyone Still Running their Stock Stereo?
Hey everyone,
Sadly one of the rear speakers in the SC400 was starting to give out and produce some horrible sounds at certain frequencies. I just finished swapping them out (ps getting that rear shelf is a *****!). I was shocked that the Nakamichi's (1k+ option back in the day) litterally disintegrated in my hands. The cardboard was so brittle it was just falling apart. Granted my car spent many of its years in Arizona and California, but I was still taken a back.
Anyone else running their stock speakers?
for the record, I am still hanging tough with the 12CD changer.
Sadly one of the rear speakers in the SC400 was starting to give out and produce some horrible sounds at certain frequencies. I just finished swapping them out (ps getting that rear shelf is a *****!). I was shocked that the Nakamichi's (1k+ option back in the day) litterally disintegrated in my hands. The cardboard was so brittle it was just falling apart. Granted my car spent many of its years in Arizona and California, but I was still taken a back.
Anyone else running their stock speakers?
for the record, I am still hanging tough with the 12CD changer.
08-16-10, 09:37 PM
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My 97 has the factory woofer wired up to an aftermarket amp and MTX front splits, sounds fantastic for what it is but has started to give out as of recent so I'm looking to redo the entire sound system (as well as the rest of the car... gotta love project cars 
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My 91 has all factory speakers, amps and EMV touchscreen deck. All work flawlessly except for the radio (Japanese FM band is different to the Aussie spec) and the old school GPS system thinks I'm driving on water lol.
The Japanese spec Soarers never came with the Nakamichi option, all parts were sourced through Matsu****a (Panasonic?) and Pioneer. Even though the speakers are closing in on 20 years they still beat the crap out of the speakers in my 01 GS300 (factory Pioneer).
).My 91 has all factory speakers, amps and EMV touchscreen deck. All work flawlessly except for the radio (Japanese FM band is different to the Aussie spec) and the old school GPS system thinks I'm driving on water lol.
The Japanese spec Soarers never came with the Nakamichi option, all parts were sourced through Matsu****a (Panasonic?) and Pioneer. Even though the speakers are closing in on 20 years they still beat the crap out of the speakers in my 01 GS300 (factory Pioneer).
08-16-10, 10:06 PM
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Yea I still got the stock system. Was gonna concentrate on preformance mods and do audio last, but that all changed when I bought a carPC. Looks like I'm gonna be doing a whole new system now, and preformance later lol
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08-16-10, 11:01 PM
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My sc3 is a 96, came w/ the Pioneer unit and it's completely stock. It sounds amazing. My only gripe is that the changer skips over road imperfections. As far as I know there are no good solutions to that, except for getting new suspension and expensive tires that provide better ride cushioning.
08-17-10, 02:08 AM
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Yes...unfortunately 
. A couple speakers are in and out, too. I've dumped too much cash into it with all of the fun upgrades in the past 4 months I've owned it. So, I'll have to wait a while before I decide to upgrade interior comforts like audio.
. A couple speakers are in and out, too. I've dumped too much cash into it with all of the fun upgrades in the past 4 months I've owned it. So, I'll have to wait a while before I decide to upgrade interior comforts like audio.
08-17-10, 07:46 AM
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Hmm good to know - I replaced my speakers with a pair of 4022i Infiniti Reference Speakers which had the highest sensitivity which I could find as a OEM replacement, they fit and sound pretty well to me!
As far as the changer goes, I would highly highly recommend everyone go out and purchase a CD lens cleaner (the one with the little tiny brushes on the bottom), I ran one through after the CD player was extremely stubborn to play CD's and now it only skips over really hard bumps/knocks.
As far as burned CD's to play, I have had the best luck with Taiyo Yuden Brand CD-Rs (they were a co-inventor of the blank medium). I have experimented at several different speeds and from my experiences could not notice any difference. During the "higher" tracks, it does still have a bit of trouble "resuming" after the car is turned off.
I was really tempted to buy a Pioneer AVIC system but the loss of my Subwoofer was something I was not willing to deal with. I find the Nakamichi system is very "refined" and can produce a nice balanced sound, however for those times you want some harder bass it really lacks. It wasn't designed for that purpose though.
As far as the changer goes, I would highly highly recommend everyone go out and purchase a CD lens cleaner (the one with the little tiny brushes on the bottom), I ran one through after the CD player was extremely stubborn to play CD's and now it only skips over really hard bumps/knocks.
As far as burned CD's to play, I have had the best luck with Taiyo Yuden Brand CD-Rs (they were a co-inventor of the blank medium). I have experimented at several different speeds and from my experiences could not notice any difference. During the "higher" tracks, it does still have a bit of trouble "resuming" after the car is turned off.
I was really tempted to buy a Pioneer AVIC system but the loss of my Subwoofer was something I was not willing to deal with. I find the Nakamichi system is very "refined" and can produce a nice balanced sound, however for those times you want some harder bass it really lacks. It wasn't designed for that purpose though.
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My sc3 is a 96, came w/ the Pioneer unit and it's completely stock. It sounds amazing. My only gripe is that the changer skips over road imperfections. As far as I know there are no good solutions to that, except for getting new suspension and expensive tires that provide better ride cushioning.
Ditto that in my 93. Once in a while an error code will appear but on 2nd try works fine - these are cds that were copied. Since installing Eibachs and new prothane bushings, its a little worse.