[s-cars] CD Changer woes - AGH!

[Dave Forgie]

Bruce:  What Taka says does NOT surprise me.  I was more surprised that some people were saying/thinking that a "normal" Sony player worked and that you could just get one off e-Bay.   I had looked into that about 4 years ago and remember lots of threads on the old S-cars list about how neither the regular Sony (10 disc) or Alpine (6 disc) over the counter (non-Audi) units would work in our cars.  I even spent some time on the phone with the Alpine techies in Toronto on this topic.  My conclusion was that due to some deal with Sony and Alpine, Audi had them build "exclusive" models (internal wiring changes) so that the new and replacement units had to be purchased through Audi.

If this isn't true, I am really p*ss'd.

Dave (missed the whole CD thing because of Audi's pricing) F.

Taka Wrote:

Bruce-
The "normal" Sony CD changers require two sets of cables to work
properly- the "Unilink" cable which looks like a DIN cable, and a
normal pair of RCA interconnects. Without the RCAs, you won't get
any sound, although the track/disc data is transferred via the Unilink
cable.

I don't know how the Audi interface works, if there is a different
pinout
on the cable that handles this or if there is a pair of RCAs that you
need to hook up somewhere?

Taka