RE: MD: RF Car MD Changer?
=BEGIN QUOTE=== Does anyone know if such a thing exists? I recently purchased one of the new Acura SUVs, the MDX, and the factory stereo is very much tied to the whole functionality and asthetics of the dashboard. The factory cassette/cd in dash player is double-sized, and there are controls mounted on the steering wheel. I don't want to change the appearance of the dash or lose the functionality of the steering whell controls, but for the last two years I have been anticipating installing an MD player in the new vehicle I knew I would purchase. Now that I bought this new fancy ride, it's killing me that I won't be able to have the MD option in it. There are plenty of CD RF (radio frequency) changers--you know, the kind that you tune in to on an unused frequency of your factory radio. But I haven't been able to find any evidence that MD RF changers exist. And if they don't, does anyone know of any plans for one in the future? How about some other workaround besides a portable MD player and a cassette adapter? END QUOTE== Does the OEM head unit have an ability to control an optional dealer-fit CD changer? If so, I would go to a specialist car-stereo dealer and find out if there is a "protocol converter" available for that particular Acura vehicle. These devices allow aftermarket CD changers to be controlled by (obviously-incompatible) OEM car stereos that are equipped with CD-changer controls. If so, find out if it can work with all Clarion CeNet changers; Sony UniLink changers or Pioneer P-Bus changers. If it then satisfies these requirements; you may be able to use a Clarion, Sony or Pioneer MD changer with your factory head unit and even be able to control it using the steering-wheel controls. OTOH, you may need to use the Sony MDX-65 MD changer alongside the RM-X69RF changer controller / RF modulator in the traditional RF mode. I would also find out if the OEM head unit does support an auxiliary input (perhaps after a bit of hacking). This means that you can use the RM-X69RF controller as a controller with the audio being fed into the auxiliary input. This is because some people have discovered a 12-volt control output from the controller's wiring, which opens up auxiliary inputs if the head unit simply receives a 12-volt trigger signal; or operate a relay to "short to ground" for units that "short to ground" their trigger input, or bring signals away from a on-board sources to the attached changer in the cause of units that loop the signal out via an outboard device. With regards, Simon Mackay - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: RF Car MD Changer?
The factory cassette/cd in dash player is double-sized, and there are controls mounted on the steering wheel. I don't want to change the appearance of the dash or lose the functionality of the steering wheel controls, but for the last two years I have been anticipating installing an MD player in the new vehicle I knew I would purchase. Ask Crutchfield (1-800-955-3000, http://www.crutchfield.com/) about it. Kenwood makes an in-dash 3+1 MD changer (model KMD-D400, http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/S-Otw7DIHunrr/ProdView.asp?s=0c=3g=600; I=113KMDD400o=a=); it installs in a double-sized dash opening along with a controller-changing Kenwood stereo. So you could get a CD-playing head unit and have the MD changer with it: radio, CD, and multi-MD. Pioneer also makes an add-on MD player for double-sized dash openings (the MDS-P7000), but it's a single MD. I couldn't find a Web page for it on Crutchfield's site, but it is in their Fall 2000/Winter 2001 catalog (on page 32). But I don't know if that'd be too much of an appearance change.. and you'd have to ask a Crutchfield tech if the steering-wheel controls would work with a new stereo. Oh, and you'd lose the cassette player, too, but who needs cassettes when you have minidiscs? 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: RF Car MD Changer?
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === i know sony has a md changer unit, i believe you can get an rf attachment for it (i could be wrong on this). anyway it's a place to start. - Original Message - From: "John Salomone" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 4:37 PM Subject: MD: RF Car MD Changer? Hi all, Does anyone know if such a thing exists? I recently purchased one of the new Acura SUVs, the MDX, and the factory stereo is very much tied to the whole functionality and asthetics of the dashboard. The factory cassette/cd in dash player is double-sized, and there are controls mounted on the steering wheel. I don't want to change the appearance of the dash or lose the functionality of the steering whell controls, but for the last two years I have been anticipating installing an MD player in the new vehicle I knew I would purchase. Now that I bought this new fancy ride, it's killing me that I won't be able to have the MD option in it. There are plenty of CD RF (radio frequency) changers--you know, the kind that you tune in to on an unused frequency of your factory radio. But I haven't been able to find any evidence that MD RF changers exist. And if they don't, does anyone know of any plans for one in the future? How about some other workaround besides a portable MD player and a cassette adapter? Thanks in advance, John _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
