ONLYTONY
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Will the rear window from a 97 or 98 fit a 95?
Rear Window
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NoLimit95
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Yes, as far as I know and the antenna is built into the rear window too. If you get that connected, you can unplug the motorized antenna in the trunk.
Sapperfire
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Don't use the rear glass antenna.. use your stock Gen1 antenna. The glass antenna sucks
NoLimit95
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I have heard that before but didn't know how true it was. The radio sucks period lol. I never ever listen to mine. It's been 2 years since my antenna has had the chance to completely extend. I never give it time. I only use an iPod Touch that's hidden in the console or Pandora through BT through the phone. I don't even use CD's either.
Does your antenna go down when you switch from radio to aux or cd?
Markviiiedrea
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But antenna's are ugly on cars....aircraft, not so much.
NoLimit95
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Yep, as long as I'm not on tuner, which is the first selection when turning the head unit on. I just automatically skip past it and don't even give the antenna time to raise an inch if I can help it. When I get past "tuner", next is "BT Audio" and then "iPod" and then "CD" is the last choice besides "Stand By" and I usually just leave it there. When I start the car, the head unit finds my phone and connects itself. It would drive me insane if I had to drive around with the antenna up all the time.
Sapperfire
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They're best on grasshoppers
And since we're talking stereos
I just pillow pants my sub box... wow, what a difference
So let me get this straight. You spend all that money on a sound system then feed it from an ipod?
My home system never plays compressed sound because it sounds bad. A CD is a compromise for me. Straight up vinyl makes the CDs sound tacky and I have trouble understanding why you would feed a nice system with an MP3 for the source.
Perhaps all that matters is the slam and MP3s are adequate for that.
Here I am contemplating putting quite nice wire from the CD player to the head unit and then to the amp just to make the source path golden.
My home system never plays compressed sound because it sounds bad. A CD is a compromise for me. Straight up vinyl makes the CDs sound tacky and I have trouble understanding why you would feed a nice system with an MP3 for the source.
Perhaps all that matters is the slam and MP3s are adequate for that.
Here I am contemplating putting quite nice wire from the CD player to the head unit and then to the amp just to make the source path golden.
ONLYTONY
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Rear glass
I just wanted to know if the rear glass will fit. All I read is about radio stuff. How the mind wonders
I just wanted to know if the rear glass will fit. All I read is about radio stuff. How the mind wonders
Markviiiedrea
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We’re men, it happens.......And Yes it will work.
Your post makes me nod and shake my head at the same time. Makes my neck hurt.
Yes, MP3 is compressed music. I can hear HUGE differences between a real CD and a CD with MP3 tracks burned to it. It is compressed data after all.
Now to say a CD is a compromise over vinyl? Yikes. A record needle cannot vibrate at the freequencies a CD can recreate. Records have an inherant high THD because of the limitations of the needle movement. Use the same recording studio and have it burn a disc while scratching an album and you will hear nuances in the CD that the album just can not recreate.
Albums have pops and clicks and a steady whoosh sound that some associate with warm sound quality but its all distortion.
I have heard Dark side of the Moon on album and remastered CD on a system using Infinity IRS V Beta speakers ($62,000), four Carver Silver Seven amps, all NAD and Audio Conrtol components and some rediculous $6000 glass turn table.
The CD made you feel as if you were in the room with them as they recorded where as the album didnt have the sharp attack on the highs or the tight lower freequencies the CD made.
And I am talking the little things that bring music to life. Hearing the pick strike the string before it vibrates, the singer taking a breath away from the mike, a drum stick sliding off the edge of a snare drum etc etc.
NoLimit95
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When I get in the car, I know I'm not stepping into "the studio". The sound isn't bad at all. CD's do sound better but not by much. I mean after all, it's only a car but I can say that mine sounds better than any factory Mark VIII system, by a long shot. Then, there is always Pandora, (not mp3) and it sounds excellent. For what I have invested, I have no complaints at all. I might spend and hour to two hours per month inside my car. Many times, the head unit remains on "stand by" just to answer the phone for me. All of my audio is in AAC format and not mp3. AAC has a better sound quality than mp3 does.
Yeah, AAC is much better. Larger but better. Still a little compressed though. Studio quality in the car is what I am after. I have a little project for the truck this month. Already redid the sub and am about to put something quite special up front. Problem is that the components I am about to use will REALLY show how much MP3 sucks and I am gonna have to switch to full loads on my USB drive.
Plannar ribbon speakers do not tolerate imperfections.
Well we'll try to keep this short. I have about $10,000 worth of audio gear sitting around here, my stereo. I don't much like Carver but the silver sevens are OK. I like my Sonic Frontiers Monoblocks quite a bit better although they were quite a bit cheaper than the SSs. I have a Sonic Frontiers Signiture Preamp which has been factory tweaked. I used to know the Chris's at Sonic Frontiers.
Some facts. A CD can do 44,100 samples per second and is cut off at 20,000 Hz. Almost any of my nice records will put out an analog waveform that will happily do well over 100,000 Hz. My system will pass that to the tweeters unharmed.
Now although one cannot hear frequency over say 20,000 Hz for a young man one can hear the lack of overtones which should be resonating about that frequency. It basically makes the music sound ... not real.
I have Zappa's "Man From Utopia" as a CD, A digitally remastered record and the original analog record. Guess which sounds best, yup the analog record.
My test is ... tell me how many rivets are in that cymbal.
You should understand I have been over this ground many times.
97MarkJA
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Who cares? I mean really, the guy asked about a rear window.
I consider myself an audiophile and have been in the industry for 20+ years, mp3 is fine for the car and most can't tell the difference at home... But that wasn't the question.
If you go to the gen 2 rear window make sure you get the anteena amplifier as well, it will suck less. It's on top of the rear deck behind the third breaklight when you remove the package tray.
warrioralumni08
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Well, I sure didn't know they were the same! My Gen 2s trim, is better then my Gen 1s. I'll fix it one day possibly.
Minor point of interest, just confirming, but I thought the package tray, was the inner sheet metal structure, in the trunk?
Sorry for nitpicking, I am just curious, and like to learn new things!
Markviiiedrea
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Well, I sure didn't know they were the same! My Gen 2s trim, is better then my Gen 1s. I'll fix it one day possibly.
Minor point of interest, just confirming, but I thought the package tray, was the inner sheet metal structure, in the trunk?
It is but the antenna amplifier he is talking about is actually under the carpet right behind the high mount brake light. So you have to remove it from inside the car by removing the back seat and such.
Personally I like just lisiting to the music my engine makes at WOT.
ONLYTONY
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Thanks
Thanks for the info on the window. Orginal antenna will be used. I've had enough boom boom music to last me. I repaired Juke Boxes for over 38 years.
Thanks for the info on the window. Orginal antenna will be used. I've had enough boom boom music to last me. I repaired Juke Boxes for over 38 years.
NoLimit95
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It is but the antenna amplifier he is talking about is actually under the carpet right behind the high mount brake light. So you have to remove it from inside the car by removing the back seat and such.
Personally I like just lisiting to the music my engine makes at WOT.
If the window is out, there should be easy access to all of that stuff without removing the seat. Question is, does the antenna amplifier connect to a Gen 1? Gen 1's didn't come with one because they weren't needed. I'm sure it can be hooked up but not in the same place as the Gen 2...
ONLYTONY
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ok
dbleb88 has a real nice window from a 98. It's a 1 1/2 hr ride and if it fits it'll be worth the trip, and I'll get to see Ole Bruce again. As long as the defroster works things will be good.
dbleb88 has a real nice window from a 98. It's a 1 1/2 hr ride and if it fits it'll be worth the trip, and I'll get to see Ole Bruce again. As long as the defroster works things will be good.
Markviiiedrea
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You just have to re route the antenna, if I remember right it is the same connection.
I removed the wire that goes from the amp to the top of the glass about month ago, wasn’t to hard. I had to take part of the headliner down when I was doing it but it was the parts car.
If you’re going to use the antenna system there are some interior pieces that have to be removed, i.e. back seat, rear deck cover, left interior quarter and part of the head liner to get the system out with the glass. The amp just snaps in but you might have to go in from underneath to squeeze the clips out.
I'm doing it only to shave my gen one antenna hole, I don’t really listen to the radio but I will be hooking the gen II antenna system up for occasional radio use. I just want her to have clean, smooth body and I want my car to look pretty too!
97MarkJA
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It's the silver box infront of the third break light when you remove the "carpeted panel on top of the package tray"