RE: Rear Speakers on 90CQ

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

I completely concur with Tim. Trash the original setup if you can. My Coupe
has an aftermarket setup with Boston Acoustics separates in the rear, with
an Alpine amp driving them, and Sony separates in the front driven off the
Pioneer head, connected to a 12 disc Pioneer changer. It sounds great, just
another reason to take the long way home, I pity all you poor souls with the
stock setup. I had it in my old 90, and it was awful...

Ian Duff, New Bedford, MA
1990 Coupe Quattro

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>From:
>	treilley_at_BANKMARK@conseco.com[SMTP:treilley_at_BANKMARK@conseco.com]
>Sent: 	Thursday, March 14, 1996 11:22 AM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net; Bob D'Amato
>Subject: 	Re: Rear Speakers on 90Q
>
>     I am not sure about the 90Q but I have a Coupe Q and the rear speakers
>
>     are not worth keeping just based on the sound they produce.  They also
>
>     have a strange piggy-back amp/crossover that is completely inferior.  
>     When I originally hooked them up, I had a serious ground loop problem 
>     that caused a large pop whenever I powered on the head unit(Alpine).  
>     The wiring is kind of screwy also.  You have to hook up the white 
>     leads to switched power(from head unit) for those rear amps to come 
>     on.  I just replaced my rear side woofers with  a set of Blaupunkts 
>     and they made all the difference in the world.  My friend has a '94 
>     90CSQ and the people he took it to really screwed up the system by 
>     trying to use the rear speakers.  The fronts and rears are connected 
>     to amplified output from the head unit(sony) and he has to power on 
>     the rear amps to hear anything.  When he adjusts the volume, the 
>     fronts increase at a diff rate than the rears!
>     
>     Trash-em, start from scratch all the way around.
>     
>     Tim 90CQ, 77Spitfire
>
>
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>Subject: Rear Speakers on 90Q
>Author:  "Bob D'Amato" <Bob.Damato@snetel.com> at Internet
>Date:    3/14/96 9:17 AM
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>
>     
>THere has been much talk about stereo installations to get rid of your 
>crap radios they came with. I plan on ripping mine out and putting in a 
>good one, but it looks like it will include speakers as well. Im looking 
>at a midrange stereo (top of the line Alpine is still only midrange I 
>think...).  Is it possible to use existing speakers or dont even bother.
>     
>Also...If anyone is intimate with Alpines, please email me directly.
>     
>TIA
>     
>Bob
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