Radio/music installation

[Woody3466]

OK, I love just listening to the exhaust and engine - though the slight whine at 50mph can be a bit wearing. However, I quite like a bit of music too. So, any recommendations of a straightforward audio solution?
I currently have a 90's Ford radio loosely sitting in the radio hole, feeding the slightly battered dash mounted speaker.
I would like to put in a 70's radio that has been renovated to do FM/stereo/bluetooth etc, but they are very expensive! I don't really want a digital display thing, so the chromed up modern ones are not very high up the list.
Are the hidden bluetooth options actually any good?
Where is an easy, convenient place to put speakers? My car is mostly original- that's just the way it came when I bought it! So, don't want to cut loads of holes to put speakers in the trim. Again, are the hidden under seat speaker any good?
I am not an audiophile, don't want perfect sound , just the option of playing some music whilst we are tootling along.
Thoughts?

[singapore stag]

You can put a bass bin in the hood stowage area or boot, but boot will limit the sound and affect space.
Then some on here have very cleverly made boxs/frames or structures for the speakers under the dash, which I was thinking of copying myself. You could use any material, but most have used MDF.
So, you could have bass, midrange and I was thinking of using extra tweeters on the ' B ' posts.
Some international member has put in a usb, handsfree, Dab, Fm, card minus CD ( do we really need CD's nowaday?

This is from China and it fits like a glove n the Stag. Good reviews, all for 12.99. Ha ha.
Only drawback is multi coloured flashing lights on it. Pimp my ride style .
I am oing for it.

[mole42]

Don't know about CD but my in-car player is Minidisc....and FM radio. Guess that'll all be out of date soon too.

[Phil S]

A dual cone speaker from ebay £35 ish fits and works well, remove glove box and slide on top of the heater below the original dash speaker position, full size din radios are a tight fit but will go in so options are any

[NeilR]

I use an old Sony BT2500.

Has a CD that is MP3 capable (lots of tracks capacity)
Front mounted USB
Bluetooth for phones - voice &music or ipods etc...
4 Speakers outputs
Conventional DIN fitting, tight, but it fits
No silly flashing lights or anything like that

Only issue for me is it has blue backlighting
2 small speakers in original dash fitting & 2 bigger in the back.

Does fine for me.

[Woody3466]

will a single dual speaker in the position of the original speaker give enough volume?

[Wheelz]

The dual speaker is OK and easy to fit, but is not going to give any stereo separation, and the bass response will probably be weak. Isnt it worth putting in a pair of small speakers each side of the dash, then a bass unit somewhere like the hood bin? The bass unit could be a dual coil type to connect directly to the rear L/R outputs.

[Tdafforn]

On my TR6 I have a pair of alpine tweaters hidden under the dash and then woofers behind. Its coupled to a DAB DIN sized radio. However I have also used a system with a hidden Bluetooth amp (you can buy small powerful ones from fleabay etc) and then just connect my phone to it..
Works nicely
tim

[RNF]

I realize this isn't for everyone, but if you can always use Bluetooth speakers hooked up to your phone and keep your car looking factory. Then you don't have CD's floating around.

[sujitroy]

For Stag no.1 I have a tubed single channel subwoofer configured as a speaker behind the back seat. This works as the left channel. I have a single speaker in the front dash and this works as the right channel. I use the radio fader knob to balance the sound. With all the other noise, you can't tell if it is really stereo or not.
For Stag no. 2 I have a 2 channel subwoofer behind the seat and a retro sound duel cone speaker in the dash. I have 4 channels.
I can't tell any difference between the two set ups.
The nice thing is there are no holes for speakers in the back.

Sujit