Re: Car radios

[mwaters@wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters)]

>Sean Smyth wrote:
>I need some advice from this group. The car radio inside the 1987 Pontiac
>Grand Prix is terrible! It can't pick up WXLO in Concord, WJIB is
>unlistenable there as well, and apparently it never heard of 1150 anywhere
>west of Lexington. Anyone know of a reasonable car radio that has decent
>reception?

        First, I'm surprised, because the GM factory radios are usually
better than the others, at least the U.S. others. BTW, does yours have AM
stereo? Are you sure you don't have a bad antenna situation or some other
problem -- has it always been this way?
        If you do change, I always recommend Sony, especially for those
interested in listening to AM. My experience is that most of the
aftermarket radios have horrible AM, even the $400 radios. But the Sonys
seem to be pretty good. Another thing I've noticed is that the factory
radios seem almost always to have Dolby for the cassette player (for those
of us still playing with those fossils), but a lot of the aftermarkets that
go for less than $200 do not. At the risk of flushing out some vicious
anti-Dolby crusader like the sales person I talked to last week at a car
stereo store, IMO a cassette deck without Dolby isn't worth owning.

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