Stereo/speakers

[lukesr]

I'm interested in upgrading my stereo/speakers in my Tamora to something that you can actually hear when driving above 20mph with the roof off and hoped some of you could advise.

[gary_de_tam]

Me too - hope you get some good responses, I'll be watching..
I've seen TAM's with the front door units like the T350 which
I assume was the stereo upgrade option on a TAM

[grumbledoak]

I have a T350 with the speakers in the doors. It works ok but I preferred the Alpine unit I put in the Chim (still wish I'd kept it). Also watching for ideas, if anyone has 'upgraded'...

[smithyl23]

I used work in a car entertainment place and i've done a couple of boot builds in my time. I have a T350c with some expensive infinity replacement rear speakersrated at 200 watts, thicker uprated wire and the pioneer outputs bridged to give 2 x 100 watts.(Instead of 4 x 50 i.e 2 channels wasted)

very loud a crisp however sadly not much bass. I've seen the doors with speakers in them and think it spoils the look. However that just my opinion.

hope this helps

[targarama]

Cheapest upgrade is 6x9s in the rear firewall/bulkhead. Great noise.

[icraigmy]

Sad as it may seem, but I hardly use my stereo in the Tam because I like hearing the sweet music from the exhaust and engine .

I know --- it's sad

[MTY4000]

6x9s work a treat in mine.

[doctor_darren]

smithyl23 said:

I used work in a car entertainment place and i've done a couple of boot builds in my time. I have a T350c with some expensive infinity replacement rear speakersrated at 200 watts, thicker uprated wire and the pioneer outputs bridged to give 2 x 100 watts.(Instead of 4 x 50 i.e 2 channels wasted)

hope this helps

How easy is it to bridge the outputs on the Pioneer head-unit? I've changed the rear speakers to components and they could do with a bit of extra power.

Darren

[honahont350]

Me too.

Was going to take her to my local car audio shop this saturday and get them to just 'sort it' I also want my ipod installed.

What is this 6x9 business, I know nothing about car audio apart from I want to listen to my music that I love so much. Also, as i'm driving to Italy in a few weeks and I MUST, have all my music for the roads

At the moment I only have 2 little speakers in the back, are you talking about having more of those all down the back???

Also, what about a stero? I want one with the same green LCD colors as the T350. Anyone got any ideas?? advice? purchase feedback?

Thanks

Jonathan.

[stevend]

6x9 are the speaker size, they are oval. I put in larger rear speakers (8s) and they make a big difference. I also have tweeters at the front (rather than door speakers) and they are fine. I can hear AC/DC with the roof off at speed.

Try a search, there were quite a few threads on this 2-3 years ago when many of us went down this road.

regards


Steven

[honahont350]

stevend said:

6x9 are the speaker size, they are oval. I put in larger rear speakers (8s) and they make a big difference. I also have tweeters at the front (rather than door speakers) and they are fine. I can hear AC/DC with the roof off at speed.

Try a search, there were quite a few threads on this 2-3 years ago when many of us went down this road.

regards


Steven

Anyone got a link to a decent green LCD stero?

[targarama]

I think most Pioneers are green. The standard head unit is actually not too bad. An excellent unit is the Blaupunkt DAB 54 - my brother has one. You can change the colour to be what you like. It's DAB and takes SD cards for MP3s (far better than messing about with CDs).

I changed my Pioneer head unit for an £80 head unit which has USB and SD ports. It has a red background though.

No point in spending tons of money when its a TVR. I find I hardly ever listen to music in the TVR - as people say, it makes its own.

[maddog-uk]

Carl baker is your man. www.tvruk.tv/ he works wonders with these cars.

[ibroker]

I have a bespoke speaker box that I made to go in the back of my T350 if anyones interested. Mine was a 2004 car with the single sub in the back. I simply took out the rear section of trim amd replaced it with a custom flat box along the rear section of the car with 6x9 oval speakers. Made the world of difference.

[t40ora]

Dunno if I just have low expectations, but my 2006 speak model has an Alppine head unit which pays MP3 discs and two speakers in the back.

Clearly hear the music with no distortion at motorway+ speeds with the roof down. Maybe a little lacking in depth, so I am considering visiting Carl as has been suggested.

I agree, that the soundtrack of the car is the best music, but I'm sometimes in it on the motorway for about 6 hours so good sounds are nice.

[smithyl23]

doctor_darren said:

smithyl23 said:

I used work in a car entertainment place and i've done a couple of boot builds in my time. I have a T350c with some expensive infinity replacement rear speakersrated at 200 watts, thicker uprated wire and the pioneer outputs bridged to give 2 x 100 watts.(Instead of 4 x 50 i.e 2 channels wasted)

hope this helps

How easy is it to bridge the outputs on the Pioneer head-unit? I've changed the rear speakers to components and they could do with a bit of extra power.

Darren

Simple.
1st take out your stereo.
Find the 8 speaker cables normally should tell you in either TVR manual or head unit manual. Usually 4 pair of wires in green/purple/white/grey with the negatives having a stripe down them.
should only be 2 sets in use so find the two that aren't in use.
best way to do it is use some simple electric plastic block connecters (any hard ware store) and make the 4 pairs into 2 pairs by twisting together put two sets of positves together n two sets of negatives together. Making four rows of the connecters used (two wires in each).
out of the other side of the connecters, connect the two sets of wires already plumbed in back to the rears.
Job done only took me 10 minutes and the sound is unreal even at high vol. When i did installsas a general rule i always used to use speakers rated to double the system output so no distortion at high volumes.
Suprisingly enough i did my mates t350t by running three channels.
2 x 50 watt to a pair of 7x10's with a 250 watt 8inch sub where the flat mates are and bridged 2 of the channels for 1 x 100 watt to the sub. Because of the set up in the 350's (speakers perfectly facing towards you the sound is extremly good n base was awesome.
sounded so good i'm considering doing it to mine now. Normally wouldn't touch interior of these cars hinks it spoils them a little but this method is very contained ( no seperate sub box)

sorry for long post hope this helps.
Nick

[smithyl23]

oh if you can be bothered buy some expensive thicker wire and replace the existing factory (Thin n crapy) wire. Makes all the difference at high volumes especially if you modify the setup as my above post.

Nick