New here and need some advice!

Hi
Just passed my test a few weeks ago, and have got a "hand-me-down" car, my brothers old Fiat Seicento (pretty poor I know but it gets me from A to B I guess!). Anyway..

The current sound system is pretty awful quality. I have the stock fiat front speakers, and some Pioneer rear shelf-mounted speakers, which are linked up to the cheap Grundig cassette/radio. Then I'm running my ipod into one of those cassettes which allows playback via the tape player.. Crap I know So I'm looking for a new CD player which will hopefully give me better quality.

I dont need perfect audio but I'd like something a lot better than what I have now, but dont know where to start. I heard from a friend that even a cheap cd player and a decent amp will sound good, but I have no idea where to start and even less of an idea about how to hook it all up Not really looking for a big sub or anything like that (no space in the boot as it is!)

Cheers for any help

 

Sorry, I forgot to put my location as UK, I cant buy from there. However I'm guessing that model is still available in the UK.

Will that work with what I have now? I will upgrade the speakers in time but I'd like something that will work pretty much straight away then I can build upon it if that makes sense..

 

Yeah I am on a budget, I have other things that also need money going into (guitar and bike!). Probablyt the most I really want to spend is £80 which probably wont get me much, I think thats the equivalent of around $150usd.

Been looking on ebay, found a "H+B CA-4545" for a good price that looks ok but whats the quality like?

On the description the guy says "plays mp3 discs so you can cram hundreds of songs on one disc".. how do I go about making a disc like that? Just like a data disc with the stuff on or what? Normally I can only fit about 15 songs on a standard cd-r..

 

No one has an opinion, or knows about the mp3 cd stuff?

 

Ah cool, I thought it may be. Cheers for all the advice guys.

I went into Halfords yesterday (not exactly the best place but they have the speaker testing rig thing) and to my ears, I preferred the sound of the Alpine SXE-1025s speakers, which I will probably get for my front speakers, then upgrade the rear Pioneer ones to something better when I have the money

 

Ok cool cheers! I still need to get a cd player, wont be for a while though as someones got into my bank account and took some of my money so I need to get it all sorted and hopefully get a refund! I forgot to ask, what in terms of wattage outputs is best for a standard setup? Most I've seen are 4x45w, is that good for most setups?

Whats different in terms of wattage, as I've seen some cheaper ones that are like 4x7w or something, does that just mean it'll have less headroom and breakup/distort earlier than ones with more wattage?

 

Ah so it doesnt really matter what the 4x"whatever" wattage is?