Car stereo I wanted 10 years ago v.s. the one I want today

robywar · 4 months

In my first car, an '87 Fiero, I had the most kick-ass tape deck. It could fast forward through a song and start playing automatically after it. It had cassette track skipping. I was a tape-playing god.

string97bean · 4 months

I can attest to this. I have a fancy radio in my car without an aux port and would give all the bells and whistles away for one.

dust_free · 4 months

My cheap 09 Toyota Yaris has the following:

Power locks: No

Power windows: No

Aux input: Yes

Totally worth it.

TruXter · 4 months

I had a VR in my old mustang, it had usb,Sd and AUX adapters $38 at walmart. Not good stereo but it was the best damn car stereo I ever owned.

http://cdn-images.sewelldirect.com/products/SW-5096/SW-5096.jpg

Bilbo_Fraggins · 4 months

Add a volume rocker on the steering wheel and you get pretty much how I use my deck.

DoTheDew · 4 months

I just want someone to explain why my 2006 Acura TL came with a cassette player. Cassettes haven't been mainstream since the late 80's. It does make a nice gum pack holder though.

prof_doxin · 4 months

I wanted a USB port in my car (to run almost everything) back in 1996. 20 years later...still waiting.

Do guys at auto makers all wear onions on their belt?

obsidianop · 4 months

I think the ridiculous work-arounds we've gone through for the past twenty-five years while NOBODY was putting a simple $.25 mini stereo jack on their car stereos is one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. I'm imagining auto executives being bought off by the fly-by-night makers of those stupid radio transmitter dongles that never worked.

HyperText89 · 4 months

[FIXED] I think you mean this: http://imgur.com/IQrgY

Patass · 4 months

they have them with bluetooth, it's much better than an aux line. You can change tracks and shit from the radio itself and keep your phone or whatever in your pocket.

bipolarrogue · 4 months

Our brand new full size Ford work vans (E150) have a plain am/fm radio.

No Cd. No Cassete. No LCD screen. No ANYTHING.

But they have an AUX jack. Awesome sauce.

StretchinAZ · 4 months

I just want an Android powered head unit.

ikonoclasm · 4 months

I went into Best Buy the other day to look at radios and one of the guys walked up to me asking what I wanted.

Me: An aux port and a couple USB ports for charging.

Him: A CD player?

Me: Nope.

Him: Mp3 support?

Me: Nope.

Him: Satellite radio?

Me: Nope.

Him: So just aux and USB ports?

Me: That's it.

Him: Uh, yah, we got these over here...

All the terrestrial radio stations I listen to are available either through I Heart Radio or TuneIn Radio apps. My music is all stored on my phone or Google Music. Podcasts are on my phone. Audiobooks are on my phone. Aside from decent speakers, my car stereo needs are pretty minimal.

eqisow · 4 months

Actually preferred the cassette tape player in my 1992 Volvo over the CD player in my 2001 Galant.

[deleted] · 4 months

Ford sells a $200 kit to add an aux-in to my radio. And you don't even have to change the faceplate because there's already a button to select aux-in!

Fucking pirates.

rube · 4 months

USB is equally important. My car came with both USB and aux. I leave a flashdrive in the USB filled with whatever music I might want to listen to, and I plug my phone into the aux occasionally when I want to listen to a podcast or whatever else I might have on it.

The USB is so damn convenient.

455face · 4 months

im a total hipster so this is the car stereo i want: http://i.imgur.com/pzQoj.jpg

Buttock · 4 months

I would love a non-flashy car radio. I am completely baffled how it is impossible to find one. Neither can I comprehend why anyone would want something so silly looking and so visible to car thieves.

gluemope · 4 months

I like me some Bluetooths in my car. Doesn't sound as good as cables, but fuck cables. Plus, I'm over 30, I don't listen to loud music anymore, anyways.

hexxorleiva · 4 months

I'm still all for mp3 CD's because dealing with two devices that deal with volume is two too many.

That and I like the fact that I have a record of what I thought was 'music' even two years ago.

rnichols · 4 months

Am I the only one that actually likes bluetooth?

I bought a cheap bluetooth cig lighter attachment and plug it into the aux jack and it works great. I hear a lot of people complain about bluetooth not being reliable. I guess I'm just lucky. I use it as a speaker phone too.

EnderbyEqualsD · 4 months

Whoa there! Gotta throw an EQ in that bitch.

BanditoRojo · 4 months

I remember blowing all my burger-flipping money on my car stereo. Now all I need is $20 headphones. What happened to the simple pleasures in life?

Zapperkhan · 4 months

What? That unit doesn't even have dolphins doing flips and shit.

MissJill · 4 months

I still want the top one

Permagrin · 4 months

Why even have a jack?

I recently got one of these bad boys and I really loving it. Not only does my ipod plug into the back of the unit where I can control it from the head unit itself, I can pair my phone with it and play media from there as well. No wires laying about my car and so far has been really reliable.

ghettajetta · 4 months

Probably will get buried, but if you get one of these Plus one of these of appropriate length And one of these with enough channels for your particular car (probably 4, 5 if you want to add a sub), you wont even need a headunit/radio in the dash. You could even make a custom mount using a multimedia dock for your phone, and viola, your phone is now your headunit.

gzrecoil · 4 months

You have low standards. I just bought a unit with A2DP and AVRCP so I can wireless stream music from Android, also has HD radio, 13 band equalizer, three 4V pre-amps, timing & position adjustments by speaker size, and pretty much anything else you can think of.

Installing today, cannot freaking wait!

UnassumingHipster · 4 months

It's ironic how almost every car had a tape deck until the late 90s, when many of them became equipped with only a CD player and no auxiliary port for only about 10 years.

You can use a cassette adapter on older cars to listen to an ipod/mp3, and you can use an AUX port on newer cars, but if your car is from about 1996-2006, you can't listen to your ipod at all.

Lucky me, though, I'm too broke to even have a car at all. I ride a road bike around, and since I follow every traffic law, I would feel unsafe listening to an ipod while doing so.

Not that not having a car makes me better than anyone else, of course. To each his own. I'm not one to judge.

ruination77 · 4 months

Check out the devium dash. Might be what you're looking for.

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