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MG TD TF 1500 - Rear Speakers??!!

~This may sound a bit amateurish but have just
purchased MG TF 115 and cannot get rear speakers
to give out any sound at all!!. Have tried everything
I can think of with stereo settings (Kenwood KDC5090R)
Bruce

On my 52 MGTD I have a full DVD audio system with 5.1 channels of surround sound. I had to dedicate the whole boot area for the 300 watt subwoofer though. :-)

Chris
Chris Couper

Chris,
One of the "advantages" of the 54 TF over the 52 TD....7.1 surround and of course 2 HD monitors ...1 in each glove box along with the lowered bonnet and flaired headlights! I was afraid this would happen.
WE NEED A SEPRATE "tf" SITE!
Cheers,
David
David Sheward

My wind-up gramophone is a bit of a tight fit behind the TF seats when the hood(top) is folded but if I lean my head back so that it is actually inside the big brass trumpet attachment then I get brilliant surround sound. (Don't try this when the windscreen is folded).

Matthew
Matthew Magilton

Matthew failed to mention that recordings are still done in "full-range-mono" down there and he only has a single ear on the top of his head! This is no doubt why this sounds so "brilliant" to him. I grew up downstream from Cleveland OH. and suspect that some river water from up there got into our water
supply...accounting for the other 5 ears that have grown out of my head facillatating the need for 7.1 surround sound! ;-)!
How much does a gramophone sub-woofer weigh?
What type of suspension mod's did you do to accomadate this was distributed in a way as to not effect the TF's abbility to "cornor robustly"?
Cheers,
David
David Sheward

While I often carry one of my grammophones with floreal horn in the back of the car, to listen to my favorite 78 rpm (acoustical recording), I also have a CD player with 5 speakers all around in my 1950 TD, equalizer and 200 W power amplifier - yes, I also digitize my 78 rmp records and make CDs out of them. Described in Safety Fast, June 2000. All hidden. Nothing shows. Only the grammophone horn shows when I use it.

As for the TF, I did not know it came with rear speakers from the factory. Shows how little I know and how advanced Abingdon was in 1955!

Denis

P.S. Another case of mixing up TF with TF? How is that possible?
Denis L. Baggi

I got to get me one of those new fangled 55 TF 7.1s. I am really behind the times.

Chris
Chris Couper

I have a Danish woofer which, at about two hundred pounds, pretty much fills the boot on my TD. I run sans silencer, so I don't hear it well. The drool assures me that it's still there, though.
George B.

There's really a simple resolution to the rear speaker problem as I have mounted two 2,500-watt co-axial speakers on the luggage rack of my TF-1250 leaving the boot for more practical purposes. They're a little un-aerodynamic but that doeasn't really matter when one needs to tow a 15KW power generator!

PS
I no longer need to use my horn so I removed it. It was too heavy anyhow!

PPS
Rover will regret this one!!
Gordon Clark

One of the advantages of a Rover Group 2002 MG TF115 over a 1955 mgtf1500 is that it is negative earth so it is easy to fit a modern stereo.

Jan Targosz 1951 TD
Jaan Targosz

I put Sony rear speaker in my TD. Since it is positive ground you must run the radio DIRECTLY off of the battery, and you must turn off the radio completely when you shut down, or you will have a DEAD battery when you want to go again. HOWEVER, no matter what you do you can"t hear them, because they are under the boot and the wind is in your face. Your better off mounting a good set of speakers on the sides up under your dash, and balanceing them right to left with the treble high and the base at 3/4. Buy the way, the Manhatten Transfer album: SWING, is the greatest sound for driving that car. Good luck.------------ Bob Fulton
Bob Fulton

Only a Scotsman would try to listen to music in a MG. You may have to just suck up all those MG sounds, the whine of the gearbox, rattles in the tach cable, wind in your hair, passing SUV's and all that good noisesome stuff. You can't hear a radio if you tried.

We do have a solution. Bose, some years ago made a carryabout stereo system, two speakers, battery pack, wires to plug into Gigs lighter and a CD player, all in a nice bag.
Works ok, but is easy removed from an non-locking MG.

Get a couple of piper's and stick'em in the back and tell them to blow away.
colin stafford

Colin: "You may have to just suck up all those MG sounds, the whine of the gearbox, rattles in the tach cable, wind in your hair, passing SUV's and all that good noisesome stuff. You can't hear a radio if you tried."

I bet if the T series were still being produced they could put a noise attenuator in that cancelled all of this so you could here the music. A high tech T series.

Chris
Chris Couper

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F09%2F19%2Fwcar19.xml
Tatty

This thread was discussed between 13/08/2002 and 23/09/2002

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