Don't you just wish you can put your home
sound system in your MB?Man,I wish I can.
I got so interested on high end sound system
when I heard my friends stereo.Luckily,He is
selling it,and sold it to me for a bargain.
He upgraded his to Mckintosh and Cantons.
Here's my components,(Are this high ends?)
Power amp.Parasound Hca 1000A THX
Pre amp.Parasound P/HP-850
DAC Parasound D/AC 1100
CD Changer Parasound C/DC 1500
Speakers M&K S85
Sub M&K VX7 Mk.II
Sub controller M&K RM-1
I know you guys are stereo buffs too,so
what have you got?

I was VERY MUCH into stereo equipment until family priorities pulled me away from it. My home system was quite fantastic years ago, but I believe it's mainstream now...

My MBs are OEM, but when I got into the car stereo circuit, my VW was my platform. This was before IASCA, and CAN (Car Audio Nationals) had only been around for a couple of years.

In-dash CDs were state-of-the-art then, and a lot of ancillary goodies (fuse holders, capacitors, crossovers) were not off-the-shelf items, so you had to fabricate everything...I mean, EVERYTHING!!!

I competed with a Nakamichi TD-1200 cassette deck (back then, the absolute best auto cassette unit made. Power was supplied by a Blaupunkt amp for the eight separates front and rear, and an Alphasonik amp for the two 10" Pyle woofers.

It was a modest system, (270 watts into 4 ohms total), good enough to trophy in local shows, but couldn't compete with the big guns in the regional.

Wouldn't even think of doing that again...takes a TON of money to be a national contender these days...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Well...

My car has a radio. It plays both kinds of music...

Country AND Western!

:p

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Mike Tangas
'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.

In the process of getting a new sound system and reading with interest what the rest of you are using. Had the pleasure of being entertained by kerry's new amplifiers in the 300se. It was like sitting in an auditorium and having your world dance simply by listening.

I can only imagine hours of orchestral magic accompanying wherever the MB takes... bliss

Stock Mercedes BOSE sound system (8 speakers supplied by a 200(?)Watt Amp.
And I have a 300 Watt Amp powering a 10-inch sub. It's perfect, for me anyway. Any more Bass would be too much.
And a 10 disc CD Changer.

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2006 E350 w/ 155k miles (Daily Driver)

Previous:
1993 300E 3.2L Sedan w/ close to about 300k miles
2003 E500 Brilliant Silver (Had 217k miles when totalled!)
1989 300E with 289,000 miles (had for <1 yr while in HI)
03 CLK 500 cabrio (Mom's)
2006 C230k (Dad's)
1999 S420 (Mom's/Dad's)
2000 C230k Sport sedans
2001 CLK320 Cabrio (Mom's)
1995 C280 My First Mercedes-Benz... (155k miles. EXCEPTIONAL AUTOMOBILE. Was Very hard to let go of!)

Hey Mike.......If your radio only plays Country and Western, you better throw it out and get a new one!

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Dale, R129
W202

"The Blues Brothers" if I'm not mistaken. Great movie.

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::: Sven :::

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That would be me. The Benz stereo is plain sucky B*se. I don't see any need to upgrade My home setup right now includes...

Magnepan 1.6QR
Classe CAP150 (used as preamp)
One pair of VTL MB250 monoblocks
Kimber silver cable and interconnects
Calaudio CL15 CD player
Tice power conditioning

That's it, straightforward. Future upgrades:

PSAudio powerplant
Magnepan 3.6r
Sony Superaudio CD player

Kuan (2 channel lover)

Home system:
!OLD!
Dynaco Tuner, tube amp, Preamp, Speakers.
AR Turntable (Shure M91ED)
Philips CD player
Pioneer Cassette deck

Car 'system'

Becker receiver/tape unit
Concord 4.5" metal dome front speakers
(Older than the Becker, but they fir and sound better)
rear speakers gone - ducted ports
Infinity Basslink 10" active/10" passive 200w sealed box
(on order)

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John

2003 Firemist Red/grey leather SL 500
2015 Palladium Silver/black mbtex GLK 350
1987 Smoke Silver/burgundy mbtex 300E Sportline (SOLD)

Click to see 87 300E

This is what I have in my home theater:

M&K MX-150 THX subs (x2)
M&K S-150 THX (x3) Front L/R/C
M&K SS-150 THX (x4) Rear and sourrond

B&K Reference 7250 amp
B&K Reference 2220 amp
B&K Reference 30 A/V System Controller
Sony DVP-S9000ES DVD player
SIM2 HT-200 DLP projector

10 foot fixed mount screen

Everything is controlled via a Lutron system.


In my 400e I have:

Blaupunkt indash CD
MB Quart 4 in (Front)
MB Quart 5 1/2 in (Rear)

My home system

Onkyo 989 reciever
Onkyo 601 DVD/CD
Bertagni SM300 Geostatic Speakers
Polk RM 800s
Polk Center can't remember model just price
Polk Sub " "
Cervin Vega's for rear
Sony 61" projection TV
Sony Playstation 2

I have an Eclipse in the TE
Nachamichi in the Tundra and Lexus
Bose GM in the Burb'

Kuan...
I have a friend with a 1999 ML430 with BOSE. The sound seemed pretty decent to me...
that is, until you got into the back seat!! Back seat sound was so incredibly crappy, I can't even believe Mercedes made a BOSE stereo that sounded so... lifeless.

I also don't like the head unit stereo in the MLs... why did the make them different?!

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2006 E350 w/ 155k miles (Daily Driver)

Previous:
1993 300E 3.2L Sedan w/ close to about 300k miles
2003 E500 Brilliant Silver (Had 217k miles when totalled!)
1989 300E with 289,000 miles (had for <1 yr while in HI)
03 CLK 500 cabrio (Mom's)
2006 C230k (Dad's)
1999 S420 (Mom's/Dad's)
2000 C230k Sport sedans
2001 CLK320 Cabrio (Mom's)
1995 C280 My First Mercedes-Benz... (155k miles. EXCEPTIONAL AUTOMOBILE. Was Very hard to let go of!)

The Mercedes Bose in the 500 SL is a verryyyyyy crappy. It was replaced with a Eclipse head unit and speakers and it improved dramatically I wish Benz could do the factory sound like Lexus/Toyota. You would think a $80,000 car would have a decent stereo but that is just not the case. I must add that even Ferrari which used to have pretty shappy systems (1 speaker) are better that MB.

Forgot to add this picture of my sub and amp:

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2006 E350 w/ 155k miles (Daily Driver)

Previous:
1993 300E 3.2L Sedan w/ close to about 300k miles
2003 E500 Brilliant Silver (Had 217k miles when totalled!)
1989 300E with 289,000 miles (had for <1 yr while in HI)
03 CLK 500 cabrio (Mom's)
2006 C230k (Dad's)
1999 S420 (Mom's/Dad's)
2000 C230k Sport sedans
2001 CLK320 Cabrio (Mom's)
1995 C280 My First Mercedes-Benz... (155k miles. EXCEPTIONAL AUTOMOBILE. Was Very hard to let go of!)

Forgot to attach this pic....



For some reason, it's showing up as a link though?

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2006 E350 w/ 155k miles (Daily Driver)

Previous:
1993 300E 3.2L Sedan w/ close to about 300k miles
2003 E500 Brilliant Silver (Had 217k miles when totalled!)
1989 300E with 289,000 miles (had for <1 yr while in HI)
03 CLK 500 cabrio (Mom's)
2006 C230k (Dad's)
1999 S420 (Mom's/Dad's)
2000 C230k Sport sedans
2001 CLK320 Cabrio (Mom's)
1995 C280 My First Mercedes-Benz... (155k miles. EXCEPTIONAL AUTOMOBILE. Was Very hard to let go of!)