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Looking to Buy a New CD player for my 1990 240 DL ( need Suggestions ?? ) 200 1990

I like players with BBE, think they sound better. Not sure how it works, but JVC and Alpine have it. The better models let you vary the BBE setting. My Alpine sounds pretty amazing for a car player, and I didn't even like Alpine before I decided on it. Take a bunch of CD's of different kinds of music and spend a couple of hours listening. A winner will emerge after a while.

You can put 4 or 5" speakers int he front doors, 4-6" in the rears, and probably 6.5's would be no problem either.

The main trick is to get speakers that have roughly the same sound signature so that the front and back don't sound radically different. I spent a lot of time listening before I bought mine and it was well worth it, even though I didn't buy expensive stuff. It's like sitting in a pool of sound rather than hearing a bass-heavy speaker in the back and a treble-heavy speaker in the front.

Just took a trip with my brother and he thought I didn't even HAVE rear speakers, until I worked the fader to demonstrate.

Since the noise level is high in a 240 you might consider using some Dynamat. I've thought about it, but it's a lot of work taking all the door panels off and applying the stuff. Best to do it while you're already in there installing the speakers.







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