[Cobalt]

Originally Posted by 914986

I'm getting a '91 964 next week (thanks DCinVA) which has a factory cassette player. I'd like to upgrade to a newer factory CD player.

Does anyone know what factory CD players are a direct swap out?

I've been through the high powered mega systems years ago and have no desire beyond pulling one head unit for another, with minimal to no wiring, fishing behind the dash, etc.

Thanks in advance for any help on this!

If you have the CR-1 the CD-2 should be a direct swap but still a crappy unit. These are very hard to come by and way overpriced for the poor sound quality. Do a search on the CDR210 and CDR220 I believe they require a harness adapter to work and I don't know if they work with the factory amp. These are supposedly better sounding.

Make sure if you buy any of these used they come with the code to unlock them.

If you have the Blaupunkt Stuttgart radio I don't know what to tell you.

It might be worth doing a little wiring to get reasonable sound. I swapped mine out for nakamichi CD500 and it made a huge improvement but required rewiring the speakers. although I rarely turn mine on.

Also odds are the factory speakers are probably shot. The fronts I believe are still available from Porsche for under $40 each and the rears I believe are NLA.