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Hi Sean,
Dammit, i was afraid of that :(
Sony always seems to charge exorbitant prices for their accesoires. e.g. I
own a MDS-JB920 and wanted to buy the S-link kit (like in the MD-PC1 etc)
it would cost me about 225US$ to get the 2 cables and the little black
box....So naturally I didn't buy that...
No I don't mean a source selector but the XA-107 Unilink adapter Erik
mentioned...
Indeed your solution is probably the most viable solution for now...until
someone can figure out the sony protocol. Looks like it's time to go search
for a cheap changer :D
grtz,
Tom
At 13:04 14-5-01 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've asked around the know-how MD and Mobile audio shops and
>there doesn't seem to be any *cheap* way of connecting the
>portable and head units together without having the bus line.
>
>You can off course give it to some electronic whizz and see if he can
>by-pass the swithc inseide the head unit so that input is take nfrom the
>RCAs on the back of the head unit, BUT warranty problems!!
>
>I think the little box you talk about is called a 'source selector'.
>
>My only solution now is thus:
> Spend some money on a changer (make it CD, 'cause you want to use
>a portable MD), and you can just as well get a decent changer 'cause then
>you can play CDs as well. Then you just put a 'splitter' on the RCA cables
>before it goes into the head unit. The one set coming from the changer and
>the other neatly tucked in beside your seat, etc. Thus you select the
>source on the head unit to the CD changer and instead of playing the CD,
>you just press play on the portable, and viola!, MD to the head unit.
>(Obviously you can then play the CD and MD together to mix you own music
>;-D )
>
>ciao,
>
>Sean.
>
>
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>On Mon, 14 May 2001, Tom P.D. Daniels wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've been away a while from this list, but now I'm back :D Hope to be able
> > to help some of you and read a lot of interesting MD-related stuff...
> >
> > I also have a question. I've been trying to connect various equipment
> to my
> > sony car head (MDX-C7890R) but to no avail. On researching it I found out
> > that I needed to also connect the changer control. But since I'm not using
> > a sony changer I don't have that. A solution offered by Sony is a small
> box
> > that sits between the source and the car head. the downside to this that,
> > like almost every accesoire sold by Sony, it's very expensive. About 150$
> > in the Netherlands (where I life...) which is IMO pretty steep. So my
> > question is; is there any CHEAP way to get my car head to accept an aux
> > source ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Tom Daniels
> > MD buff since '96. Also check my website about MD:
> > http://btentertainment.cjb.net/Md
> >
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