Those radios that don't have external amplifier have an internal one so it is much easier to suss out the speaker wiring.
Cheers, Peter.
: > Hello Everyone : >
: > Well, the 11 year stereo in our 1993 960 has just about had it. It still has : > AM functionality, but the volume knob is crackling a lot when you adjust the : > volume, the FM has been dead over a year, and the tape deck stopped working : > silently for 6 months.... And it has no CD player to top it off. : >
: > I have my parents thinking aftermarket stereo, but they, like me have come : > to the conclusion that there are absolutely NO distinguished, elegant : > looking car stereo's on the market. : >
: > Maybe we are going to the wrong places... we don't want to pay thru the nose : > either. All we need is CD, nice to have tape, and AM/FM. : >
: > Does the 960 have its own amplifier? : : I don't think that there's any elegant looking stereos on the market : either. For ergonomics, you sure can't beat the Volvo radios. And : there's not too many out there that also do tapes and CDs in the dash. : You can find SC-816 in black from a later 960 or 850, or the more common : gray used in the x70s. For example: :
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$54302878 : There is also the option of the gray only SC-901, but that one requires : an external amp, if you don't have an amp it's not too easy to wire one. : : You can find out if you have an external amp by looking for the 6 pin : DIN plug on the back of the radio. (My brother's 97 960 didn't have a : separate amp.) : : -- : Mike F. : Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont. : : NOTE: new address!! : Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly. : (But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)