[s-cars] CD Changer woes - AGH!

[Bruce Mendel]

According to URS4, it should work fine (mine does have the blue plug). So I
guess I have a bad unit.

Bruce
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Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] CD Changer woes - AGH!


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
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