bugaboo
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Car Stereo Auxiliary Input
Monday, June 06, 2005
I was tired of using a cassette adapter with my iPod, because it added lots of noise. If I tried to turn the iPod up loud to drown out the noise, the levels would get messed up somehow, and the treble would sound painfully loud. After looking around online for auxiliary input things you can install in your car, I found that they all ranged from $80 to $200, plus installation. While this may be nothing to some people, I thought that an aux input can't possibly be that big of a deal. So I poked around with my stereo and figured out how to do it while buying only a toggle switch that I got for 50 cents, and using some wires and stuff that I already had lying around.
I got sort of lucky, because my 2001 Corolla was a little easier to hack than I imagine some cars will be. I'm just using the factory system here, with no aux inputs built into the head unit and no amp or anything like that. The difference is, mine has a CD player unit that's seperate from the head unit. This means that there is audio being passed from the CD player to the head unit, and those wires can be clipped and redirected to other uses. I imagine any car that has a seperate CD player, CD changer, or whatever will be hackable in the same way I did. If not, then I guess you'll have to figure out some other way of doing it.
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Car Stereo Auxiliary Input
Monday, June 06, 2005
I was tired of using a cassette adapter with my iPod, because it added lots of noise. If I tried to turn the iPod up loud to drown out the noise, the levels would get messed up somehow, and the treble would sound painfully loud. After looking around online for auxiliary input things you can install in your car, I found that they all ranged from $80 to $200, plus installation. While this may be nothing to some people, I thought that an aux input can't possibly be that big of a deal. So I poked around with my stereo and figured out how to do it while buying only a toggle switch that I got for 50 cents, and using some wires and stuff that I already had lying around.
I got sort of lucky, because my 2001 Corolla was a little easier to hack than I imagine some cars will be. I'm just using the factory system here, with no aux inputs built into the head unit and no amp or anything like that. The difference is, mine has a CD player unit that's seperate from the head unit. This means that there is audio being passed from the CD player to the head unit, and those wires can be clipped and redirected to other uses. I imagine any car that has a seperate CD player, CD changer, or whatever will be hackable in the same way I did. If not, then I guess you'll have to figure out some other way of doing it.
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