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I agree with what Erwin says. I understand the appreciation of the dancing lights though, and I think the Saab EQ is much tamer, and I think more classy, than what you'll find in the aftermarket these days. There may be a way to accomplish putting your new deck in and still having the EQ display work. It's my understanding that the preamp outputs from the stock deck run through the EQ on their way to the amplifier and then the speakers. If you run the speakers of the power in your new deck (HIGHLY advised as opposed to using the stock amp), you'll have a free set of preamp outputs doing nothing special. If you can determine which wires going into the EQ are the signal inputs, there's your answer. You can just take a set of RCA cables, chop off one end, and connect them to the proper inputs on the EQ. There are a few ways to determine the proper wiring. I'd say the easiest is this:
Leave the stock EQ and deck connected, but pull them out so you have access to the wiring connectors. Get yourself a headphone speaker or any small speaker driver (preferably with very high impedance), and attach a length of wire to each terminal, with a bare end. Turn on the stereo, low volume, and then touch the speaker wires to various terminals on the EQ connector - hopefully they are accessable. When you hear music out of the speaker, there are your signal wires..
As for popping the old Clarion out and putting the Blaupunkt in without any modifications, that depends on your idea of modifications. If you've purchased it from Crutchfield, you'll get a free adaptor for the 9000, which plugs directly into the car harness, so all you will need to do is connect this adaptor to the harness on the back of the Blaupunkt deck - piece of cake, and doesn't have to be done in the car. However, the EQ may get it's power through the stock deck, and if so, this would cut it's power source, so you'd need to then also find the power and ground wires on the EQ harness, and add them back... My car didn't come with an EQ, but it did have an amplifier where the EQ should have been, and I don't recall there being two plugs coming off the main wire harness, I think the amp was daisy-chained with the deck.
Aaron
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