I am thinking down the road of replacing the radio but run into many pros and cons.
The current in dashradio:
Matches the rest of the dash equipment like the dual zone controls.
Sounds okay :lookinup:
Dissipointed that it is the same radio in Chevy Blazers and S-10 pickups as well as other standard chevy cars.
The problem is replacement radios sound better and give your more options like playing MP-3's, but I have not found one that is conservative looking enough to be in this caliber of a car. They are all either silver with flashy light displays of equilizewrs, rocketships and ton of other juvenile looking junk like funky shaped buttons or weird shapes on the display that will look tacky in a car like this.
One complaint about the car is that my C4 had a premimum bose system that had a dash unit and special amps that were made by bose to GM's specifications. This radio does not sound bad but it deffintly is not near the quality as the C4's. My C4 sounded like a concert hall and produced rich crisp sounds that not even my house stereo produced. This system is actually outdone by my mothers premimum system that came with her Saturn L-300.
Do I have to go to a specialty audio shop to buy a head unit worthy of a high priced car, or do I have to settle with a 17 year old teen-agers head unit that would be in his honda civic type R?
in order to replace the current stereo. :lookinup:
I would think the intereor will look real tacky with a standard one din unit or any GM sized unit that looks ricey.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
BTW; Don't get me wrong I dont fault GM for doing it and I can live with the current system just looking for alternatives.
The current in dashradio:
Matches the rest of the dash equipment like the dual zone controls.
Sounds okay :lookinup:
Dissipointed that it is the same radio in Chevy Blazers and S-10 pickups as well as other standard chevy cars.
The problem is replacement radios sound better and give your more options like playing MP-3's, but I have not found one that is conservative looking enough to be in this caliber of a car. They are all either silver with flashy light displays of equilizewrs, rocketships and ton of other juvenile looking junk like funky shaped buttons or weird shapes on the display that will look tacky in a car like this.
One complaint about the car is that my C4 had a premimum bose system that had a dash unit and special amps that were made by bose to GM's specifications. This radio does not sound bad but it deffintly is not near the quality as the C4's. My C4 sounded like a concert hall and produced rich crisp sounds that not even my house stereo produced. This system is actually outdone by my mothers premimum system that came with her Saturn L-300.
Do I have to go to a specialty audio shop to buy a head unit worthy of a high priced car, or do I have to settle with a 17 year old teen-agers head unit that would be in his honda civic type R?
in order to replace the current stereo. :lookinup: I would think the intereor will look real tacky with a standard one din unit or any GM sized unit that looks ricey.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
BTW; Don't get me wrong I dont fault GM for doing it and I can live with the current system just looking for alternatives.
