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head units had analog tuners

a tuner was ALL there was...no cassettes..no cd's

everybody into car audio had eq boosters in their cars

most people got their audio stuff from sears because they couldn't afford alpine, pioneer, JVC etc..etc..

everybody wanted alpine because of the 6 big green buttons

subwoofers played full range because there were no crossovers

people made their sub boxes out of plywood and put their tweeters in there with em

WOW!!!!
Sorry I can't say I remember those days.

yup me neither!

stetsonguy wrote:head units had analog tuners
a tuner was ALL there was...no cassettes..no cd's
everybody into car audio had eq boosters in their cars
most people got their audio stuff from sears because they couldn't afford alpine, pioneer, JVC etc..etc..
everybody wanted alpine because of the 6 big green buttons
subwoofers played full range because there were no crossovers
people made their sub boxes out of plywood and put their tweeters in there with em

lets see.....i remember analog tuners but they were either 8 track or cassette

i remember eq boosters

i had a sears head unit once

alpine 7909 rules!!!

there have always been crossovers you just chose not to buy them

i remember the full range sub boxes with the piezo horn tweeters in them but i never made them out of plywood........

I remember analog tuners, but they were a "flea market" type of good - digital tuners were becoming standard.

My first deck if I remember, was a few years later - a "pull out" deck, with a cassette player.

My second deck, many years later, was a JVC deck - that one I remember, because it was a cassette player (volume knob too), and it had a detachable face - JVC made that deck, one of the first with a detachable face at a reasonable price point.

My next deck was a big step up, many years later... early 90's.
Still a cassette deck, but a Sony Mobile ES, and I bought the 6 disk changer with it - and new to them, you could program names for your CD's, and the changer would recognize up to 100 discs, and would display the name on your head unit. I thought that was incredibly trick, for the day.

stetsonguy wrote:head units had analog tuners
a tuner was ALL there was...no cassettes..no cd's

I just took one out of my Ranger 8454 in it's place.

stetsonguy wrote:everybody into car audio had eq boosters in their cars

I had one pushing some Jensen Triax 6x9s in my Mustang :)

stetsonguy wrote:most people got their audio stuff from sears because they couldn't afford alpine, pioneer, JVC etc..etc..

Yup.

stetsonguy wrote:everybody wanted alpine because of the 6 big green buttons

I remember drooling a time or two

stetsonguy wrote:subwoofers played full range because there were no crossovers
people made their sub boxes out of plywood and put their tweeters in there with em

Don't remember the nonexistance of crossovers, but I've heard quite a few sub/tweeter boxes in my time

As far back as I can remember, my dad put a JVC tape deck (dual knob style) with a pair of JVC 2 ways (5&1/4") in the doors of his 1984 Dodge Ram 100. I believe he did it in 1986 or 87. After a few years, the speakers deteriorated and he had some crappy Radioshack "3-ways" yuck.

I'm glad when it flooded it took those speakers with it. (truck didn't submerge, water just went up to teh speakers -truck on angle so the engine was fine) So after that flood, he got some Cambridge Soundworks 5&1/4"ers. I think a year or two later, I bought some Sony head unit for the truck. (I was 12 -grass cutting for my grandma paid it off lol)

Ahh memories...

Ummm...I remember "All of the above"

My first car, 1980 Mercury Capri (fox body). 200ci straight six with a 1-barrel carb, 4sp overdrive with 8 track. I loved that car, came with louvers on the back and a popup sunroof. I took out the 8track, and put in a Pioneer cassette deck with autoreverse. It had a brand new tuner called "Supertuner" and my FM was great! I could keep the cassette in and forward through OR reverse through the tape. And if I wanted to hear the other side, I could push the button that looked like this "<<" and the button that looked like this ">>" together and whammo...it was on the other side.

Amazing stuff that technology was. I had a Pyramid 7 band 250w graphic eq/booster powering the bigdaddy of all 6x9s out...the infamous Jensen Quadrax! I had 4 sets of them in the hatch, no box, I just cut out the holes and screwed them in. My first install! Would play Kim Mitchell's "Go for a Soda" like nothing else out! Then the Alpines came out with the green buttons. Well like the good little brat that I was, when I got my next car, I demanded an alpine headunit! So I got that when I got my 2nd car, a 1984 Buick T-Type. Had the turbo and 4x10's. I put in Alpine 4x10's cause they matched the head unit...not because they sounded good. NO 4x10 sounded good. Ahhhhhh memories! Replaced the 4x10's for some M&M Polypropeline 6x9's in the 4x10 adapters. Then added some Pyle Driver free-air 10's with my first amplifier...an ads powerplate 100. Hell this was 1985.

OnYrMrk wrote: NO 4x10 sounded good. Ahhhhhh memories! Replaced the 4x10's for some M&M Polypropeline 6x9's in the 4x10 adapters. Then added some Pyle Driver free-air 10's with my first amplifier...an ads powerplate 100. Hell this was 1985.

Man, my dad's truck I mentioned, that had a single 4x10 in the dash. That sounded SOOOOO nasty. He used to have a CB (I think a scanner at one point too) in his truck. He hooked that 4x10 to it.

chances are i wasn't alive or was hardly talking.