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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Audio upgrades are a huge PITA in any modern Porsche. Communication between modules is via a fiber optic network, you can either get an expensive adapter box or just scrap everything. The dash kits also aren’t very elegant, they are a wart in an otherwise nice interior. If you don’t care about the awkward looking head unit the easiest and best approach is to just trip out the entire factory system and replace everything down to the wiring.

I swapped my factory head unit out for a 7" Pioneer touch screen, and I can't tell the difference between the dash now and the original.

I would have liked to have bought one of the kits from Rod Birch at Car Audio Innovations, but now that we're living in an apt I didn't have the tools or space handy to do that sort of install. I paid a local shop that gets lots of recommendations. They did a pretty good job, but I'm not sure if I'd say it was a great job.

Yes, usually they go through the MOST fiber optic system.