Recommended CD Player for 944 87NA?

dave944-87 · 06-01-2004, 06:01 PM

Can anyone recommend a good CD player/radio combo that I can install in my 87 944 NA. I understand that since it's an 87, the wiring for the CD player is different to the new cars they produce these days, or am I wrong? I'm looking for something off the shelf that I can buy a best buy/circuit city or somewhere similar?

Cheers.

TCMdocs944 · 06-01-2004, 06:14 PM

Well purist would say Blaupunkt (did I spell that right?)

That is kind of what people expect when they get into a Porsche

s928s · 06-01-2004, 06:28 PM

yes' "BLAUPUNKT" for spelling.

that is the purist answer, for that era. Porsche did contract blaupunkt to make there radio's later certain madles were made by becker. I have all Blaupunkt in my 928 and all Clarion in my 944

As far as the fit goes. any "single DIN" chasis radio will fit. and there is quite a selection at any stereo store. You may find on some when mounting the flange to install the radio a little triming with a blade or file is required to fit. The wiring is the same when swaping units. Most of the origonal radios had a diaghram on the casing for matching the inputs and imputs to the new unit. The only main issues would be making sure you have a batery feed to the new radio in that area to hold the memory and the presets. And also making sure the new radio is not overpowered for the origonal speakers, or you will be changing them !!

UconnTim97 · UconnTim97's Garage

I have a blaupunkt...to keep it "original"

It was installed with no problems at all. I bought it from crutchfields and it came with the wiring harness.

Eli K · 06-01-2004, 07:23 PM

If you're going to spend a lot of time in your car, I'd suggest getting something with a builtin satelite radio tuner...

ernestedward · 06-01-2004, 08:21 PM

You will definitely need to replace your speakers. Stock speakers are unfortunately crap. WAY too small. You can get some nice blau's for the front door panel that will fit without any mod, and ANY 4x6 will fit in the rear. I recommend polk db's for that...very excellent bass for a 4x6. Also, I'm not sure how the late models are wired for speakers, 2 or 4 channel, but you might want to think about rewiring at the same time. Just one of those things.

VINMAN · 06-02-2004, 07:36 AM

Just took out my Blaupunkt Key West , put in an Alpine. Changed over to Boston Acoustic Speakers a while back.

Zlatko · 06-02-2004, 03:01 PM

**** Purists. **** them all.

Get a nice Clarion Deck.

serge944 · serge944's Garage

Clarion has been known to produce the best decks followed by alpine. If you can install it yourself, get one off ebay as theyre pretty cheap there.

Brando · Brando's Garage

Blaupunkt makes a nice series of MP3 stereos. Look into their line. If you've got a PC, just rip your CDs to MP3, burn to a disc and VIOLA! roughly 30 hours of music.

gearhead290 · 06-02-2004, 10:12 PM

I'm running a Pioneer DEH-7600MP MP3 player. Personally, I LOVE it. Wiring wasn't too bad, I custom wired it w/o a wiring diagram for the car or the deck and I had it in the car in under an hour. Really went quite smooth, just have to have patience to do it.

gtroth · 06-03-2004, 04:32 PM

I put a Blau San Diego in mine. Wanted to be true to the car (BS? maybe), and that one is probably the least guady one they make. And it's style best matched the BEA80 equalizer that came with the car (I left that in place to keep the hole filled, looks pretty cool in and 80's sort of way). $90 at etronics.com.
But it's a little flaky - ignores the buttons I press sometimes, and once in a while it goes berserk requiring me to remove and replace the face (probably that connector).