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- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: hooking portable CD to tape-less car radio
- Message-ID: <vanz.029v@tragula.equinox.gen.nz>
- From: vanz@tragula.equinox.gen.nz (Martin Nieuwelaar)
- Date: 24 Dec 92 10:44:57 +1200
- References: <184609@pyramid.pyramid.com> <6998@otc.otca.oz>
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- In article <6998@otc.otca.oz> brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones) writes:
- >In article <Dec.9.21.00.45.1992.13883@athos.rutgers.edu> borgida@athos.rutgers.edu (Alex Borgida) writes:
- >>I have a Toyota without a tape deck, but with a radio and speakers that I am
- >>quite happy with. I also have a portable CD player that I use in the garden,
- >>at work, etc. I was told by a local "car stereo" place that it is *not*
- >>possible to hook up wires to the car radio so that I can listen to my
- >>portable CD player in the car, when I go on long trips.
- >
- >Well, it is possible, but only with some effort and electronics knowledge.
- >I wanted a similar thing - my car just had the factory fitted radio, and I
- >wanted to be able to play my walkman or CD player through it.
- >
- >I pulled the radio out, tracked down the line stage of the radio, and put in
- >a stereo switch at that point. I then built a line-interface circuit with
- >a couple of op-amps to make a high impedance line input, built a 3 V power
- >supply inside the radio, and then fed two cables (stereo line input and the 3V
- >DC supply) out the back of the radio through its 5 pin DIN connector and into
- >the glovebox, where I can then plug in my walkman or CD player.
-
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-
- You could always build a kitset stereo transmitter. They're around
- $25 US, and as long as your radio picks up FM, and you can have
- the transmitter near the radio, they work quite well. Of course
- the sound quality will not be as good, but it does mean you won't have to
- make any modifications to your car.
-