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Old 04-21-2020, 12:58 PM   #16
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Default Re: CD players look yuck so.... bluetooth!

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Originally Posted by Automotive Stud View Post
I've used the portable bluetooth speakers, it's an easy option for tunes and the more money you spend, the bigger and badder sounds you can get out of them. There's also more and more hardwire options, I'm putting together a radio for my '40 I picked up on the bay. It's the size of a pack of cigarettes, it has FM and bluetooth and can power two regular car speakers for about $75. I bench tested it and it works good, haven't gotten around to installing it yet though.
I tried this, and was also impressed with the sound when I bench tested it. However, when I temporarily installed it in my car and started it up, the static was so bad I could not hear anything from the radio. We tried a bunch of stuff to clean it up, but nothing helped. I believe that a set of suppression wires might have helped, but I just wasn't going to go that far. My installation had hard-wired speakers; I can imagine that "BlueTooth" would just make things worse.

Let us know how it turns out when you get it in the car.
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