Reply With Quote\the radio works fine, what doesn;t work is the shitty fm transmitter that attaches to my zune.Originally Posted by tim eh?
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ben, i just reread your first post... i'm surprised you are not replacing it seeing as the radio doesn't work either.
i found a used jvc tape head for $40 at a tv repair shop where i wasn't even a 'preferred customer' ... kicks ass man, and once the factory amp is bypassed i know for sure it will sound great. the speakers are awesome in this car dude, it's worth a better head and amp. plus a lot of heads esp. cd changer controllers can be converted to take a line in with an adapter you can buy for $10 on ebay.
cool thing about tape decks, nobody breaks windows for them.
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\the radio works fine, what doesn;t work is the shitty fm transmitter that attaches to my zune.
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oh ok... yeah those things bite. fm radio rules tho.
a proper transmitter would be great for practical jokes at work, but they are hundreds of dollars and need more than a couple AAs.
hopefully someone can tell you for sure, but you aren't sending any major currents from your player, or from the head. it's only if you jack into the power supply or main ground that you will do any damage to anything...
2 Grand Master
Ok good news - i wired it up and went out and tested it, and it works.
however, even with bass and treble turned all the way down and the zune on 1 for volume, it's massively overdriving the system - any idea what i did wrong?
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how is it working exactly?
On tape mode?
on CD mode?
2 Grand Master
i don't have cd. It goes into tape mode bc I followed the instructions above.
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so in tuner mode you can't hear the zune?
what happens when you play with the L/R balance on your zune?
2 Grand Master
zune doesn't have l/r balance, and I can't get the deck to shift back to tuner once I have tricked it into tape mode.
2 Grand Master
figured out why it's overdriving - the preamp for the tape head is boosting my mp3 player's signal, which is already at line level. Only way around this is to reduce the mp3 player audio signal to below line level using a cap and resistor system.
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or change your splices and put them after the preamp. can you see the preamp or are you making a (probably correct imo) assumption? you would get better audio quality by skipping the preamp.... reducing and reamplifying all the time leads to a lot of hiss (which you don't generally notice in a car even a quiet one)
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