Opening Pandora's Box - removing bonkers aftermarket Japanese audio system

[drahpla]

So far I've removed nearly 40kg (!) of aftermarket boxes and wiring. There's still a load left. The original owner must have spent a fortune getting it installed, and doing so would have required removing the entire interior of the van. Nuts.

[drahpla]

Forgot to mention - the install included the fabrication of a false floor for the passenger footwell with a plexiglass window  lookinginto an LED backlit 'box' to allow you to see some of the components in action. Also a custom-made centre console to hide 3 amplifiers and some large caps, and an auxiliary battery, 3 miniature monitors and a normal monitor (there were 6 screens in all, dotted around the car). Somebody loved their hifi. A pity that I don't own any CDs or DVDs or I might have left it alone. 

[Chris.ac]

Sweet mother of god!

[drahpla]

That's a more polite version of what I said when I realised what I'd started!  It's great to see that march of progress though - in the last ten years, stuff like in car TV, video and music playback, sat nav, speed camera detection and so on, has gone from requiring all that gubbins to just a phone and a head unit.

Edited May 17, 2022 by drahpla

[Chris.ac]

if they went that far with the amps and screens, did they also upgrade all the speakers themselves/?

 

[drahpla]

Yeah. Every speaker is some kind of gold-plated connectored, heavy magnet behemoth, with custom enclosures grafted into the doors, dash and boot.

[wjvh]

You might be able to sell some of that stuff.

[drahpla]

I believe the head unit and DSP are still highly valued in Japan, but I don't speak Japanese and am not sure anyone in Japan would by second hand electrical goods shipped by a foreigner that doesn't speak Japanese. However if anyone knows a route to market then I'd be interested in hearing about it.

[Rojie]

1 hour ago, drahpla said:

I believe the head unit and DSP are still highly valued in Japan, but I don't speak Japanese and am not sure anyone in Japan would by second hand electrical goods shipped by a foreigner that doesn't speak Japanese. However if anyone knows a route to market then I'd be interested in hearing about it.

 

There is a Japanese auction site, is it Yahoo ?

 

Or a listing on one of the JDM websites ?

[drahpla]

Are they not in Japanese?