[s-cars] CD Changer woes - AGH!

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The older Sonys won't work with the newer 6 disc (Alpine)changers but for the cars (95 and earlier I think) with the Sony/Blaupunkt 10 disc the Sony CDX-A models are plug and play. BTDT. There is a good faq about this on UrS4.com.

Chad Tobin

In a message dated 1/21/2003 4:07:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, forgied at burnaby.associated-eng.com writes:

> 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