I am looking into replacing my CD player in my 99 GT Vert with the MACH 460 system. Someone is trying to tell me that i can't replace the CD player because most aftermarket CD players arent compatible wiht the MACH speakers. Anyone know anyhting about this? It sounded alot like a sales trick to me. Thanks.
It takes a special adapter to work with the Mach 460. You can get the adapter from crutchfeild or local stereo shop might have it. I know theres a couple of different ones out they cost between $50 to $80 depending on the one you get. I think the expensive one has ajustable inputs thats the difference between them. Your speakers are compatible. Just another sales trick, I've herd it before too.
Go to Best Buy and pick up an item called a "PSI2". This will allow you to choose any aftermarket deck and use your factory amp's in the Mach system. The PSI2 costs $39.99.
Or you can do it really cheap. Plus it will sound fantastic. Buy 2 sets or RCA cables. 3' is plenty long. Cut them into 2 pieces. Then strip the wire back on the RCA's and there will be an inner wire, and then the outter braid. The inner wire is your positive (+) and the outter braid is your negative (-). Solder these to your factory inputs from your stock deck. Make sure you don't let the inner and outter wires short together or you'll smoke your decks preamp. Anyways, then you can plug these RCA's into your Low-Level outputs on your NEW deck. Your 4 RCA's will be Left, Right, Front, and Rear. I've done this on several Mustangs with the Mach 460, and they sound a hell of alot better than using those convertors. Especially if you have 4V or better Pre-Outs. I recommend buying the wiring harness that you would normally buy to install a radio on a Ford, and solder to that then you can just plug that into your factory wiring harness, so if you want to put your stock deck back in you don't really have to do anything but plug it in. Hope this helps.
Or you can do it really cheap. Plus it will sound fantastic. Buy 2 sets or RCA cables. 3' is plenty long. Cut them into 2 pieces. Then strip the wire back on the RCA's and there will be an inner wire, and then the outter braid. The inner wire is your positive (+) and the outter braid is your negative (-). Solder these to your factory inputs from your stock deck. Make sure you don't let the inner and outter wires short together or you'll smoke your decks preamp. Anyways, then you can plug these RCA's into your Low-Level outputs on your NEW deck. Your 4 RCA's will be Left, Right, Front, and Rear. I've done this on several Mustangs with the Mach 460, and they sound a hell of alot better than using those convertors. Especially if you have 4V or better Pre-Outs. I recommend buying the wiring harness that you would normally buy to install a radio on a Ford, and solder to that then you can just plug that into your factory wiring harness, so if you want to put your stock deck back in you don't really have to do anything but plug it in. Hope this helps.
I am looking into replacing my CD player in my 99 GT Vert with the MACH 460 system. Someone is trying to tell me that i can't replace the CD player because most aftermarket CD players arent compatible wiht the MACH speakers. Anyone know anyhting about this? It sounded alot like a sales trick to me. Thanks.
you can put in another cd player with no problem. all you have to buy is the cd player and the wiring harness, metra 80-1771. Plugs right in, no other parts needed. The thing the second poster mentioned is OPTIONAL.
'01 and up stangs would use the 70-1771 harness, and have a different headunit, for those that don't know.
the '99-00 has the seperate cassette/cdplayer headunits, unlike the '01+ with the big single cd player.
I just replace the stock radio-casette/CD combo in a '98 GT with the Mach 460. What I did was to go to Crutchfield and follow the input windows to put in exactly what you have. I bought a JVC HDradio/CD that does MP3. That's really all I wanted.
The stock system is built by Sony to output directly to the 460 amps. You have to have an adapter that goes between whatever radio you buy and the amp input. The Crutchfield on worked fine. There were a couple of nits, one that the orange/white wire on the power wiring harness wasn't indicated right. There is an orange/white wire on the radio harness side but you actually had to go to the ORANGE wire. If this isn't connected at all, all that happens is the auto light dimming doesn't happen when the car lights are turned on.
Then the output of the amp/adapter harness feed into the square plug going to the amp. That plug has somewhat whimpy pins in it, which Crutchfield was aware of since they advised me on that when I had trouble with the speakers reversing and one side not working. BUt I carefully bent the pins a little and connected it and everything works fine.
So you DO have to have an adapter to allow the radio ouput which is already amplified to feed into the 460 amp. It all works fine now.
Question about replacing MACH 460 CD player 
