On my way back from Brooklands last Saturday, I slipped the home-made CD of the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest into my 131's Kenwood CD player and after a couple of songs I was just getting into the spirit of it and singing along
when the CD player stopped and threw out the CD
And that was the end of the CD player
it refused to play any CD after that
So last night I decided to change the Radio CD unit in the 131 as the Kenwood unit never sounded too good and the buttons and writing were so small I couldn't read them without reading glasses on and I can't see to drive while wearing reading glasses! (all you young people out there reading this and thinking "what's he on about?" just wait and you will find out in a few years time!).
I have a few spare units most of which are radio cassette units but who listens to cassettes these days! So I decided to fit the Blaupunkt Alicante unit that I had lying around. It looks a bit too "modern" in the 131 and the blue and red lighting are definately not as nice as the plain green lighting I had with the Kenwood. But it works and quite well too (although I haven't tried playing the Eurovision Song Contest CD yet
) plus it has the added bonus of RDS, PTY etc that come with modern units. It doesn't sound as well as I remember it when it was fitted to my daughter's Peugeot 106 and in fact the sound is on par with the Kenwood unit so I suspect the speakers are not that great. I have a few spare speaker sets lying around so might be changing those tonight. But at least I now have a working CD player and therefore my choice of sounds for the 3ma...