Home stereo or car stereo?

[Tikvah]

A lot of car stereo systems have some really awesome features today, but so do some home systems.  I'm not talking about 6000w amps and bass thumpers, I'm talking features and dependability. 

What do you use?

P.S.  My first car had 8-track and a record player.  Don't see that very often.  I added a cassette.


TIKVAH
(Dave Rush)
MCI 102A3   6V92
Full Time On The Road - I couldn't fix my brakes, so I made my horn louder

[luvrbus]

Dave,I see the newer hi end conversions are going with a car system and a sound bar on the tv fwiw I installed a sound bar on the tv in the rv it has awesome sound now

[Tikvah]

What's a sound bar?


TIKVAH
(Dave Rush)
MCI 102A3   6V92
Full Time On The Road - I couldn't fix my brakes, so I made my horn louder

[oldmansax]

What's a sound bar?
TIKVAH
(Dave Rush)

I think we have a first!!

Clifford teaching on technology!!!!!!! 



TOM

[Ed Hackenbruch]

I don't know about that Tom,....he might be pretty good about that.  Don't i remember from a while back that he had gone thru a lot of cell phones?

[Gerry H]

I have a Visio 40" sound bar under a 46" Samsung TV and an Acoustic Audio 8" subwoofer on floor behind a chair. Both are relatively small and take up little room compared to a home system and sound great. Also have dash mounted HD Radio/CD car stereo installed and hooked into sound bar and woofer. More than enough volume to get kicked out of a campground! Thinking about adding something to the bay for outside use. Have wife that's a kitchen dancer and she likes her Pandora loud!
   Old way of doing things was mounting separate components in cabinets, closets and overheads, but as Clifford says, new conversions = car type space saver systems. Good luck with your decision. Gerry H

[TomC]

In the driver's area, just an AM/FM radio with Sirius/XM satellite and a hookup for I-pod or your phone with blue tooth. In the bedroom, full home style stereo with AM/FM receiver, VCR, twin cassette, DVR, with 5.1 Bose surround sound. Another 5.1 system in front for the T.V. in the living area-plus the TPZ (Tilt, Pan Zoom) external camera by Rugged for front viewing as a virtual window through a 48" flat screen T.V. http://www.rugged-cctv.com/mobile-ptz.shtml Good Luck, TomC

[Ed Hackenbruch]

  We have an old Motorola radio that we added a Pioneer cd player to after we bought the bus. Never use it going down the road, we talk and i listen to the bus. Also bought a Bose Wave radio/cd player for when we are parked.

[lvmci]

hi Dave, a sound bar is a black set of speakers, usually very compact tube, 2 to 3 inches square or round, about 2 to 3 ft long, modified and coordinated to project the sound, full spectrum,  8 to 10 ft forward, usually with a seperate base woofer, no speaker towers or loads of wires to hide. It was originally designed for tv viewing in a living room setting facing the sofa. it came out of the home theatre craze. simple to install and great frequency response, I think it came out of the little Bose home setting speakers, some are not very expensive, hard to believe what good sound comes out of those little speakers, lvmci...

[Dawgs]

I'll just be using an automotive sound system in mine.  But I don't hear all that good and probably couldn't tell the difference between that and a high quality home system.

[Dave5Cs]

We use a Pioneer Mixtracs car , has Bluetooth, cell phone through speakers, cell phone hands free mic with 8 feet of wire, also has wire with USB socket to play from a stick, AM FM, and CD. it was only 139.00. I hook it into 10 speakers we had in coach from before Also have 32 inch TV  up front with 34 inch bar and sub woofer separate from sound bar but in that system. sound bar and sub woofer was only 99.00. Could also hook the radio into it if want too. You do have to watch how many speakers you hook in or the sound will keep shutting off and then you have to turn it back on if to much power is being used. I just dropped a few and it seemed work well then.
We also use our cell phones through a Bluetooth Samsung Jamb Box. we can take that outside if we want too or in the toad.

Dave5Cs

[bevans6]

I just use a cheap Pioneer car radio, it has an input for the I-pod.  I bought a Bose docking station for the I-pod but never use it.  My biggest issue is finding a good antenna these days, all I can find is cheap junk.  If I have wifi available I'll stream radio stations through the computer with docking speakers, that sounds great for what we listen to.  (Talk radio addicts, CBC Radio One and sometimes NPR)

Brian

[oltrunt]

After years of having an ear piece day in and day out sorting transmissions meant for me or others, I didn't even make provisions for an in dash stereo in my bus .  We do have a small DVD for an occasional movie and a hand cranked Grundig AM/FM/SW just in case.  Jack

PS  Sorry for the fuzzy pic.  I laid the Grundig on the scanner and told it to take its best shot Ha Ha.

[wg4t50]

The very finest music comes from a finely tuned 12V-71, radios produce news & noise.
Dave M

[Iceni John]

I still have my 1970s-ish home stereo system, less the speakers that are much too large for a bus  -  I intend to use it, even though a car stereo is much more compact.   Besides, a Quad 33/303 amp combo and a Pioneer TX-9100 tuner are just so much nicer to use compared to some flimsy plastic car unit.   A good pair of miniature studio monitor speakers will work well in the bus, and I'll also use the existing PA speakers along each side for a Hafler rear-difference setup  -  I still have a combiner/selector box I made in the 70s for Hafler speakers, along with some cheapo amps to drive them (to prevent back-feeding the Quad 303's output transistors).   A good TSW inverter will easily power everything.   It should be good!

John