I know you'll be divided on this, but here goes.......
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There is a lot of posts on here when the subject of music in the car is mentioned. I absolutely love the sound of the Stag V8 and most of the time, don't want or need a stereo. However, other than the Stag, music is also a passion of mine. The car came with a 90's head unit with radio and tape, and to be honest, not great sound through a tape / 3.5mm jack connection. I get all my music from Spotify on my phone, and don't listen to the radio much. I therefore took the decision to remove the head unit completely and install a blanking plate. To this, I attached a magnetic phone holder, which looks quite discreet I think (other than the PO attempt to reduce the original size hole to take a regular DIN unit!). The phone can now be portrait or landscape depending on music or sat nav, or even internet radio which works remarkably successfully from the phone!
I then installed a bluetooth amplifier in the glovebox from Ray Smith. This is all powered by the original wiring from behind the head unit, just redirected behind the glove-box with up-rated fuses etc. The only issue with the amp is that it has a small LED which is permanently live and glowing, despite the unit only operational with the ignition. I therefore also fitted a small isolation switch in the glovebox to completely switch it off, so no battery drain.
The finished job is good, and without music playing the dashboard is clutter free - with music playing, just the phone attached. The only issue now is the power of the amp is not significant, and cannot produce proper rich base from the speakers under the dash each side (that doesn't necessarily mean loud, just full music). I am therefore also fitting an active sub woofer under the drivers seat (it just fits) with feed from the bluetooth amp and a separate upgraded power supply. All in, this has cost just over £200, which I think is quite good and happy that I can now listen to proper music if I want to.
Thoughts?.......
There is a lot of posts on here when the subject of music in the car is mentioned. I absolutely love the sound of the Stag V8 and most of the time, don't want or need a stereo. However, other than the Stag, music is also a passion of mine. The car came with a 90's head unit with radio and tape, and to be honest, not great sound through a tape / 3.5mm jack connection. I get all my music from Spotify on my phone, and don't listen to the radio much. I therefore took the decision to remove the head unit completely and install a blanking plate. To this, I attached a magnetic phone holder, which looks quite discreet I think (other than the PO attempt to reduce the original size hole to take a regular DIN unit!). The phone can now be portrait or landscape depending on music or sat nav, or even internet radio which works remarkably successfully from the phone!
I then installed a bluetooth amplifier in the glovebox from Ray Smith. This is all powered by the original wiring from behind the head unit, just redirected behind the glove-box with up-rated fuses etc. The only issue with the amp is that it has a small LED which is permanently live and glowing, despite the unit only operational with the ignition. I therefore also fitted a small isolation switch in the glovebox to completely switch it off, so no battery drain.
The finished job is good, and without music playing the dashboard is clutter free - with music playing, just the phone attached. The only issue now is the power of the amp is not significant, and cannot produce proper rich base from the speakers under the dash each side (that doesn't necessarily mean loud, just full music). I am therefore also fitting an active sub woofer under the drivers seat (it just fits) with feed from the bluetooth amp and a separate upgraded power supply. All in, this has cost just over £200, which I think is quite good and happy that I can now listen to proper music if I want to.
Thoughts?.......
.. the setup gives me everything you can do on a tablet, including google maps satnav
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