Re: Car audio - Oxygen Audio O Car

On 2012-06-05 09:58:17 +0000, italiancar@xxxxxxxxx (SteveH) said:

IWell, it depends on the price, really - and the car.

Price is £200'ish.


No point in putting £1k worth of head unit in a cheap banger - and no
point in doing it unless you're upgrading the speakers, etc, either.

Upgrading the sound quality isn't actually the point for me this time round - it's adding the features. Sound quality is fine, but at the moment it's a radio/CD single DIN. I want iPod compatibilty, bluetooth hands-free and preferably navigation. The iPhone already does all that, so seems (potentially) sensible to make use of what I already have.


If it's a relatively modern car, then taking out the existing head unit
and replacing it can be a difficult task due to the way they integrate
with the dash and other ECUs in the car.

It's a 15 year old 911. Single DIN with ISO as far as I can tell, although yet another possibility seems to be to do a reasonably popular single to double-DIN conversion by moving the aircon controls around. Have seen these - they look nice, nice than the original layou in fact, and would also allow me to add a more featureful head unit. Going against that however would be that I'd still need to find somewhere to put the phone.


In which case, I'd look at Parrot kits.

I actually had a look at the Parrot Asteroid head unit too - again, the thing against that one is that I'd still need a separate phone/sat nav/whatever mount.


Cheers,
Ian

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