Re: Car radios

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>]

At 10:03 PM 4/12/98 -0400, Martin J. Waters wrote:

>        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.
>


I'll have to agree on Sony.  I have a Sony in my car (not a tremendously
expensive one either [car or stereo]), and I've been very pleased with it
as a radio.  I have not had good luck with Sony tape decks being on-speed,
and this one is no exception...it runs just slow enough to be
annoying...brought it back under warranty, they replaced the motor & it's
less bad.

I've never had much use for Dolby myself...my experience is that the
de-emphasis tends to roll off the treble more than the pre-emphasis boosts
it, and tapes sound muddy.  YMMV

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