/// ALPINE aka FANTOM — logbook Toyota Altezza 2000
We will talk about a tape recorder, the topic is traveled, but this is all due to the fact that in our time it is so easy to buy and install a tape recorder that it takes longer to print about this whole undertaking than to enjoy the emotions from what happened ... Why? Yes, because you can go to Mvideo and buy a mafon and install it on the weekend at any car service where there is an electrician, spending 1.5 hours on everything, 30 minutes in Mvideo and 1 hour in the service, the result: feeding on the illusion that you have a great sound, in times better than it was, or better than it was not at all
The second option: Advice with experts, listen to the advice of those who understand, put like the 88th pioneer of the first generation, and better than the second, or even put the Alpine, 33rd and better than the 35th, but what about my preferences? Are preferences important to you or sound? Both that and another ... Well then, on my own, but on my own it’s like, long and tedious, listening a lot, watching a lot, reading a lot, weighing a lot of pros and cons Search for more than a year, in the end all preferences are satisfied =)
Preferences and selection criteria: (there are many more of course, but there are basic ones)
*Design must fit the car (button backlight, knobs and not volume buttons, etc.)
*Size (a rectangle with a screen looks too innovative on the panel of an old Toyota of the end 90s, and 1din with a glove box is even easier than it was with a drain) *
Sound (the sound must be processor-based, with additional settings, otherwise what's the point of changing the awl to soap)
a tape recorder on which Malasia, Singapore, or even more so China is written did not think to be considered: P)
* Ease of use (I could never understand people who yearn for a socket from a tape recorder with them, or constantly perform the operation to remove / put-lay / remove from the glove compartment)
Regarding the frame: the goal was to preserve the style and retro design of those years by substituting one purebred Japanese for another, to get into the color of the climate and the shelves under the mafon, to guess with the illumination of the buttons, not to languish everywhere with a removable panel (but this is most likely not relevant, though…), get an MP3, a normal radio and of course the juiciest sound…
