Looking for advice and recommendations for a stock looking radio that has bluetooth and upgraded internals and a decent-good system to go along with it. I’m having my 1980 Malibu built and I want to keep the dash stock-ish looking, I’m pretty sure the whole dash is going to need to be replaced and from what I’ve seen, finding a complete 1980 dash that’s a good repro is hard to come by. I’m not sure what other people do or what y’all would recommend but I’ve seen people go to an 81 dash and I thought I saw a good repro of one somewhere that was a full dash and was as good as a factory one but I don’t remember where I saw it.
Radio/sound system wise, I have to be honest that I’m a little bit of an audiophile, but I don’t have to or want to spend a whole lot on the best of the best speakers or anything and I can settle for a decent setup. Autosound makes a radio that looks like a stock 1980 radio (the USA 740) that has all the bells and whistles I want and it’s 300 watts so I think that’s a good start. But I also like the look of the 84-87 Monte Carlo radios, it’s still got the classic 80’s AC Delco look while looking stock (I know it’s stock I mean I think it’ll look stock in the Malibu dash) but I haven’t found a radio that looks exactly like this: (https://www.ebay.com/itm/19586691476) but with bluetooth and the other goods like the autosound radio. I’m open to any suggestions, I think you know what kinda radio I’m looking for, I remember seeing another stock AC Delco radio that was late 80s early 90s that was a popular swap but for the life of me I don’t remember what vehicle it came in but Cadillac and/or firebird sounds familiar.
Speakers, this is where I’m clueless, but not completely. I know there’s four speakers that usually go into this, two dash speakers and two 6x9 speakers and of course amps and subs being optional (I think). This is where I need the most help/recommendations, I’m sure this matters so I’m going to have the vintage air gen 4 magnum AC system so I’m not 100% sure where that puts speaker space for dash speakers but what are the best/reasonably priced speakers and is an amp and sub needed or recommend for a nice stereo? What are tweeters and are speakers with tweeters better than ones without? And lastly, what’s your stereo and radio setup and how much did it cost? (if you don’t mind disclosing that) Thanks for your time and input!
Radio/sound system wise, I have to be honest that I’m a little bit of an audiophile, but I don’t have to or want to spend a whole lot on the best of the best speakers or anything and I can settle for a decent setup. Autosound makes a radio that looks like a stock 1980 radio (the USA 740) that has all the bells and whistles I want and it’s 300 watts so I think that’s a good start. But I also like the look of the 84-87 Monte Carlo radios, it’s still got the classic 80’s AC Delco look while looking stock (I know it’s stock I mean I think it’ll look stock in the Malibu dash) but I haven’t found a radio that looks exactly like this: (https://www.ebay.com/itm/19586691476) but with bluetooth and the other goods like the autosound radio. I’m open to any suggestions, I think you know what kinda radio I’m looking for, I remember seeing another stock AC Delco radio that was late 80s early 90s that was a popular swap but for the life of me I don’t remember what vehicle it came in but Cadillac and/or firebird sounds familiar.
Speakers, this is where I’m clueless, but not completely. I know there’s four speakers that usually go into this, two dash speakers and two 6x9 speakers and of course amps and subs being optional (I think). This is where I need the most help/recommendations, I’m sure this matters so I’m going to have the vintage air gen 4 magnum AC system so I’m not 100% sure where that puts speaker space for dash speakers but what are the best/reasonably priced speakers and is an amp and sub needed or recommend for a nice stereo? What are tweeters and are speakers with tweeters better than ones without? And lastly, what’s your stereo and radio setup and how much did it cost? (if you don’t mind disclosing that) Thanks for your time and input!
