Re: Stock audio: what's Audi doing wrong?

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <l03020901b26b86065dcb@[194.134.104.33]> Tom Nas writes:

>> An ur-quattro just _HAS_ to have a Philips MCC.

> That is- if you are interested in originality and not too much in the
> quality of the sound it produces. Whilst I concur that the automatic
> frequency-location and tuning is a nice touch, I prefer to use my stereo
> for my own music rather than listening to the radio. I would love a Becker,
> because they're well-laid out, superbly designed to fit in with the dash
> and they last forever, sounding great in the mean time. They're very German
> in design, a perfect complement for an Audi interior.

Nurdge.  I _hate_ disagreeing with you on this, because Becker produce
some damn fine equipment.

There's no doubt that the MCC is a radio receiver and NOT an 'in-car
entertainment' device.  Actually, the radio reception is superb and
the band coverage (60 FM programme memories, 3 FM station memories,
4 long wave, 2 medium wave and 1 49m band) is everything I need when
I'm wandering about Europe.  North American residents have very
different requirements.

RTL, for all its faults, is just about the only German-language news
service I can receive in the car (49 metre band).  I would really be
quite lost without it - unlike many British subjects, I find the BBC
pretty selective in its news coverage for the domestic market.

I have also recently acquired a "component" MCC system - an AC917 -
that permits you to combine a separate tape or CD player with the
MCC control head.  It's under investigation at the moment.

I had to drive one of our salesmen home in his own car back in 1983 -
it was a 500SEL fitted with a Becker.  This was a two-stage jobbie,
with a _valve_ amplifier tucked away somewhere.  We left Wiesbaden
to travel to Fulda, and I complained that the radio was unsafe - 
listening to Mahler made me want to close my eyes.

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