Anybody know anything about radios? (Not the Dodge this time)

[The Griff]

Time for more radio antics from me, don't you love it? Only this time it's for the Blazer.
I broke down and threw an actual radio in it, an old Alpine my friend gave me when he got a new one. I mounted it on under where it would have lived from the factory, I just didn't want to cut the dash apart. Anyway I only found one speaker in my garage, and old 6x9, so I hooked it up to the headunit as the left front, will this work? Assuming I can get the balance and fade figured out, seeing as how this radio's display does not work.

Basically can I use a stereo headunit with only one speaker? and is it worth the effort to try flying blind with this radio? or should I just find another?

 

[y5mgisi]

Seems like a waste of effort for a stereo with a broken display, but i can tell you, it will work just fine.

 

[The Griff]

I remember my friend telling me that the display didn't always work, but it really didn't even cross my mind until I got it hooked up.

But, when I came outside this morning, the display was working, so I was able to get the balance and fade set to the left front, but it was still silent, I made sure the volume was up, (then the display stopped working) but it was still silent. I looked at the speaker, it was moving, but it was completely silent.

Is the speaker phucked?

 

[jekquistk5]

Just go to wallyworld spend 100 bucks and get 4 new speakers and a head unit

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Pioneer-C...-6.5-Speakers-and-Two-6-x-9-Speakers/27584520

Not worth trying to get that alpine to work.

 

[diesel4me]

Using just one speaker on a stereo will usually result in frying the output transistor on the side with no speaker,even if you left the balance control turned all the way to the side with the speaker it'll eventually suffer..

I'd just go to a junkyard and get a few speakers--they might even give them to you...a factory radio can be had at one usually for cheap money too,or a better aftermarket one for as little as 20 bucks --here they pull "good" radios and amps out of vehicles and keep them inside the office,you have to ask to see them--they leave only ones they consider "junk" or not worth much in the vehicles because a lot of the yards have stuff get swiped after dark by theives..

Too bad your so far away,I have a PILE of old radios,speakers,amp,and other audio crap left over from all the vehicles I either junked or sold without the radios...

 

[y5mgisi]

Note to self: stop by wally world and pick up stereo/speaker combo.

 

[dhcomp]

Just go to wallyworld spend 100 bucks and get 4 new speakers and a head unit

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Pioneer-C...-6.5-Speakers-and-Two-6-x-9-Speakers/27584520

Not worth trying to get that alpine to work.

This. You don't even have to spend that much.

Not worth it for one speaker and a broken screen.

 

[The Griff]

Ok, the display come to life today, and has kept working all day, but still no noise.

I borrow one of my friends house speakers he had behind the seat of a truck he just sold, and when I hooked it up I got static, but nothing from a radio station.
But it doesn't follow the volume of the radio, it only makes static when I touch the speaker wires to the radio's wires, if I stop moving the wires the static stops, but it just goes to silence.

 

[y5mgisi]

Sounds like it's broken. Just get a real stereo.