quick question

[accordingly]

If i put a OEM honda CD player in my car, can i still hook up amps and woofers, etc......???? my car got broken into and i need a new radio and i'm thinking about putting a OEM cd player so nobody wants to break in again...but i really love tha bass n stuff.......is it possible?:confused: :confused: :confused:

[FOBGoober]

YEs its possible.. get a line output converter (LOC).. this will take high level outputs and convert it to RCA.. or u can buy an amp that has high level inputs..

[accordingly]

THANKS

[hybridhatch]

thats exactly what i did, i put my stock player in cause my kenwood got jacked. good choice!

[akaPsyco™]

you can...but the signal gets all messed up...IMO...but if you don't need a bad ass system with great highs and tight bass...then do it...best thing todo is to get a great alarm...that make soooo much noise that the person that is think'n of brake'n in will have blood come'n of there ears...before they even touch the car...( my moto)

[FOBGoober]

How does a signal get all messed up?? just curious... unless the deck has some internal xovers that messes with the signal that is...

[akaPsyco™]

you lose signal in the converter...and the deck itself doesn't have a good signal...when you get into an after market radio...and compair it...it will talk for itself...

[FOBGoober]

You won't see noise in a stock deck. (If such were the case, consumers
would return the vehicle, eh?)... Most neo-caraudiophiles refuse to
believe that OEM decks usually whip the heck out of aftermarket decks.
After all, factory reps and shop salespersons certainly can't sell
aftermarket decks by telling the truth.

Richard [clark] and I [navone] did an engineering comparison of OEM and aftermarket decks
and wrote an article on the subject. I attached a copy of the article to
this e-mail.

The difference in quality is incredible. We did a project for Rockford
(Richard and I designed their first aftermarket car audio deck.)... and it
was built by GM. The quality was incredible, but the price was too high to
sell. OEM decks are expensive and there are no middle-men in the sale.
Aftermarket decks have to account for profits for the manufacturer, the
distributor or importer, the factory rep, the car stereo dealer, the
salesperson at the car audio shop -- and finally the consumer ends up with
the total. (This is how a $57.00 deck ends up selling for $225.00 +
installation.)

An OEM deck can cost $300.00 or more with no breaks -- it's part of the car.

And the parts for both OEM and aftermarket components come out of the same
parts bins. There are no such things as "noisy" chips and "clean" chips...
they are just chips (ICs)... and NASA uses the same LF353 op amps as does
Alpine and General Motors.

The only way that aftermarket wins is by offering whistles and bells. For
instance, remote controls. There's a great idea for a deck that is within
arm's reach, eh? Moving displays, various color displays, and useless
features are common to aftermarket decks... but OEM decks don't bother with
such items because they are totally worthless. If a consumer wanted a
moving light display in his/her car, why not add a video monitor and really
get the lights blinking?

This is an email one of the members on another forum recieved from David Navone bout a test him and richard Clark did on factory headunits.. this doesnt automatically make me want to keep my factory radio but it does makes me reconsider sometimes..

[spikerman]

BTW goober, most of the OEM radios out now have a "remote" that is on the stearing wheel. But you know this and I'm just making a useless statement.

[FOBGoober]

The remote on my steering wheel would have no bearing on my decision to keep my factory radio or not.. there are adaptors you can purchase from Peripheral and PAC that allow you to use the steering wheel controls with aftermarket radios... as long as the radio a remote control capability... The issue is noise and internal processing that the radio may have.. nothing else... if it doesnt.. i'd keep it.. if it does then its out the door! also.. what does mobile one carry these days when it comes to HUs?? Something without an internal amplification please.. thanks..