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1. MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: "Phillips, Frank" <fwp@ufl.edu>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:27:06 -0400; My wife wants music and I don't think it's a bad idea. Any suggestions on the best place to mount speakers in a B? What level of output (WATTS) is needed to have sound with the top down. I want good; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00888.html (7,527 bytes)
2. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:46:23 -0400; You can get a decent CD player for under $200 and the wattage is fine. My '78 B already had door mounted speakers, which sound fine, but get muffled if someone's got there leg over one. I'm probably; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00892.html (8,401 bytes)
3. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:08:47 -0400; It is actually quite a good idea. Good for taped stories and NPR. When I bought my B (76) it had speakers in the doors and a pair underneath the top in back. I suppose in the rain the speakers in bac; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00893.html (8,826 bytes)
4. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:13:26 -0700 (PDT); I don't know, I love my manual BL AM/FM radio with standard speakers in the doors. Then again, I usually listen to the exhaust or (gasp!!) talk when driving with my wife....! 8-) The Miata seat idea; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00894.html (7,908 bytes)
5. RE: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: "Phillips, Frank" <fwp@ufl.edu>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:26:17 -0400; Love the talk to the wife idea! We have three kids age 4 and under. We don't get to drive the B together much. We get to take turns. Most of the time there is a car seat in the passenger side... We; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00897.html (8,683 bytes)
6. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:41:08 -0400; The BL manual radio in my '72 GT is a mono. Some DPO removed the under-dash speaker from over the passenger's knees. I hooked it up to a cast-off speaker box from one of the kids' stereos, and this s; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00903.html (8,904 bytes)
7. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Nferre@aol.com; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:56:17 EDT; There is a way to do this.....connect the speakers in series...this will give 1/2 of the radio's output (as 2 4 ohm speakers in series equals 8 ohms.) Do not connect them in parallel....2 4 ohm spea; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00905.html (8,186 bytes)
8. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:49:26 -0400; Sure, try it. At worst it might sound anemic, but you won't hurt anything. Keep in mind that you can also stop at a car stereo shop and they might be able to sell you a small amp that can be tucked a; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00906.html (9,711 bytes)
9. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: "wcameyer" <wcameyer@email.msn.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:39:49 -0700; I have two speakers in the doors and two in the panels behind the doors. Those in the panels behind the seats are especially useful with top down at speed. In the GT, I put one front speaker in the u; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00907.html (7,980 bytes)
10. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <Lundgren@iname.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:05:38 -0600 (MDT); Actually, if the original was an 8 ohm speaker, buy two 4s and put them in serially. If the original was 4 buy to 8s and put them in parallel. That will keep you balanced. You will have less volume o; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00911.html (8,872 bytes)
11. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Ajhsys@aol.com; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:09:07 EDT; << There is a way to do this.....connect the speakers in series...this will give 1/2 of the radio's output (as 2 4 ohm speakers in series equals 8 ohms.) Do not connect them in parallel....2 4 ohm sp; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00914.html (9,087 bytes)
12. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Ajhsys@aol.com; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:09:07 EDT; << Question--can one hook up the mono radio to two speakers installed in the doors? Would it be able to power them? Admittedly, this would not give great sound, but it would retain the original radio; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00915.html (9,137 bytes)
13. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Ajhsys@aol.com; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:09:02 EDT; << I don't know, I love my manual BL AM/FM radio with standard speakers in the doors. Then again, I usually listen to the exhaust or (gasp!!) talk when driving with my wife....! 8-) The Miata seat id; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00916.html (9,004 bytes)
14. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Nferre@aol.com; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:22:17 EDT; << I respectfully disagree that connecting them in parallel will harm the radio. I have done this many times, mostly back in the '60s and '70s. Most speakers you can buy will be 8 ohm speakers, givin; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00918.html (8,855 bytes)
15. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:40:30 -0700; I have an el cheapo 15W (?) pullout stereo. The good thing is when I pull it out, I put the radio blanking plate into the hole (I fabricated a spring clip that holds it very securely) and no one know; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00922.html (9,998 bytes)
16. RE: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:59:43 -0700 (PDT); Frank, as soon as I posted that I realized that the wife and I haven't been for a drive together this summer!! After my second child I started looking around for a 4-seat roadster (A-H) but didn't do; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00925.html (8,780 bytes)
17. RE: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: "Phillips, Frank" <fwp@ufl.edu>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:06:48 -0400; At least we could rock together!!! Frank, as soon as I posted that I realized that the wife and I haven't been for a drive together this summer!! After my second child I started looking around for a; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00926.html (9,050 bytes)
18. RE: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: "Phillips, Frank" <fwp@ufl.edu>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:17:51 -0400; Thanks for replies so far... The next question.... Door vs. back wall placement. Any good reason to not put 6x9's on the back wall? How much will the top interfere with sound? I try to only drive the; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00934.html (10,335 bytes)
19. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:59:14 -0700; I installed a cheap stereo with amplifier and 2 6x9 speakers on my 72 roadster a number of years ago in place of the original AM only radio that I got with the car. I put the speakers in the trunk.; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00948.html (12,012 bytes)
20. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1): Author: Gonaj@aol.com; Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:03:30 EDT; Having just put all new upolstery in my MGB there was no way I would cut those new door panels to fit in ugly speakers. I have a modest pair of Jensen boxes held to the carpet on the back deck with V; /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00966.html (8,369 bytes)

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