Greetings!

Well, I went to the installer today, and my alternator whine
is mostly fixed.

Basically, they removed the unit from the dash, verified all
of the wiring and placed line filters on all of the outputs.
After reinstall, there was a trace of whine, but not enough to
worry about. It can be heard if the unit is paused or muted,
but even then, you have to know its there, you have to be at
a complete stop (no road noise), etc. Very nice!

And, I took the plunge and replaced my factory speakers with
MB Quart speakers front and rear. They fit perfectly in the
factory speaker locations without any modification at all. In
fact, I was happily surprised to find that my _factory_ install
was based on component speakers! Not the greatest, of course,
but that let me install component replacements without any kind
of modification at all!!! Now, everything sounds great, and
there is no "un-self-inflicted" noise.

I say "un-self-inflicted" because driving around today, I
opened the cupholder, and (meeting resistance) I pushed a bit
harder. Too late - I must have loosened one of the RCA lines
in the install (I didn't realize the wiring was back there),
and introduced a small amount of buzz in the front passenger
speaker. Something I will deal with in my spare time, or I
might just go to the installer and admit my actions.

All in all, a great product, a great install!



Paul G.
Q# 15189
SN# 090000587 (40GB Green)