jackal2513
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This is going to run and run .. one of those never ending projects so I'll post up my journey so far for anyone interested and for the archives. Will put everything up more fully in my website too.
Went and bought some direct 130cm component replacements for the front door speakers and some straight 4x6 replacements for the rears. At the front there's plenty of depth, easily up to 60cm so you can accomodate some fairly beefy speakers. I settled on Hertz, an Italian brand which seemed well regarded. about what i wanted to spend (£50 for rears, £80 for fronts) and sounded good in the shop, not too bright and quite weighty.
My preferred head unit was the Parrot Asteroid. It seemed to be quicker than any other mech-less units I tried at moving through large amounts of tracks on iphone/usb/SD. The interface is very intuitive and looks very elegant and simplistic and the screen quality is pretty stuninng. This is a dinstincly non-jap design more in the apple mode and is actually an adroid based app. It fits almost completely flush and it seemed to be much more in keeping with the 993 interior than any other modern head unit ive seen.
Although it boasts iphone, sd card, usb and aux in, its biggest USP being a Parrot is its bluetooth and high call quality. The mic is a dual affair, not sure if there is any noise cancelling going on but call quality seemed very good. Its also all voice controlled, not just the phonebook but also selecting and finding music can be voice ocntrolled. The suprising thing is it actually works very well and creates a playlist of all the tracks that fit your command. I've managed to pair the thing up with my iphone with hotspot enabled and now the built in apps work as well ... maps with POI's, fuel finder service, worldwide internet radio stations, weather app and other such stuff. This functionality of course is all a bit geeky and it remains to be seen how useful it is if at all but its nice to have it there than not. I guess the downside could be that its supposedly supposed to be a bit buggy and can crash on ocassion needing to be reset ... we'll have to judge that in time to come.
Speakers all look oem, The hertz tweeters fit into the pods with some light modding.
I cut the rings off the old nokia units and bolted the drivers firmly to this to make for a very secure fit.
The crossovers were stowed in the door in a small padded enclosure.
The Asteroid has a GPS and I routed this up the side of the dash. Had to take off the upper dash and drop the lower dash a little.
The mic I brought up through the steering cowling which was very simple.
rears were a doddle
Went and bought some direct 130cm component replacements for the front door speakers and some straight 4x6 replacements for the rears. At the front there's plenty of depth, easily up to 60cm so you can accomodate some fairly beefy speakers. I settled on Hertz, an Italian brand which seemed well regarded. about what i wanted to spend (£50 for rears, £80 for fronts) and sounded good in the shop, not too bright and quite weighty.
My preferred head unit was the Parrot Asteroid. It seemed to be quicker than any other mech-less units I tried at moving through large amounts of tracks on iphone/usb/SD. The interface is very intuitive and looks very elegant and simplistic and the screen quality is pretty stuninng. This is a dinstincly non-jap design more in the apple mode and is actually an adroid based app. It fits almost completely flush and it seemed to be much more in keeping with the 993 interior than any other modern head unit ive seen.
Although it boasts iphone, sd card, usb and aux in, its biggest USP being a Parrot is its bluetooth and high call quality. The mic is a dual affair, not sure if there is any noise cancelling going on but call quality seemed very good. Its also all voice controlled, not just the phonebook but also selecting and finding music can be voice ocntrolled. The suprising thing is it actually works very well and creates a playlist of all the tracks that fit your command. I've managed to pair the thing up with my iphone with hotspot enabled and now the built in apps work as well ... maps with POI's, fuel finder service, worldwide internet radio stations, weather app and other such stuff. This functionality of course is all a bit geeky and it remains to be seen how useful it is if at all but its nice to have it there than not. I guess the downside could be that its supposedly supposed to be a bit buggy and can crash on ocassion needing to be reset ... we'll have to judge that in time to come.
Speakers all look oem, The hertz tweeters fit into the pods with some light modding.
I cut the rings off the old nokia units and bolted the drivers firmly to this to make for a very secure fit.
The crossovers were stowed in the door in a small padded enclosure.
The Asteroid has a GPS and I routed this up the side of the dash. Had to take off the upper dash and drop the lower dash a little.
The mic I brought up through the steering cowling which was very simple.
rears were a doddle