Mp3 Or Ipod?

[01 S-10]

Unfortunatly I have to much bass now for my headunit to handle without skipping like crazy(eclipse cd5423). I've never used an mp3 player and my wife has an ipod but only has an FM transmitter to run it in the car which I don't care for. I think my headunit has an 1/8'' phone plug connection in the back for external devices such as mp3 players. So I guess my question is does anyone have a setup like this and know what the cord looks like and also what are some good units to use? Is the sound quality anywhere near as good with the same amount of bass as a CD?

[bigeasy79]

This is what you need if you are talking about what i think you are.

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...oductId=2102950

[Boon]

This is what you need if you are talking about what i think you are.

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...oductId=2102950

From the image that cable looks like it's mono. You want a stereo one.

[bigeasy79]

If he just has one plug on the back of his hu like on the front of this pioneer

http://www.onlinecarstereo.com/CarAudio/Im...r%20DEH-P4000UB

he needs a 1/8 plug to go to the hu and a 1/8 to go to the headphone jack of the ipod

[Hugh G. Rection]

i just use a clarion head unit with the "music catcher" feature. its an internal hard drive that absolutely will not skip.

Edited December 14, 2008 by Hugh G. Rection

[ryde2idie]

i think the phone jack in the back is for steering wheel controls like volume and changin the track. doesnt that hu come with RCAs in the back that say line in.

[loganuf]

I use the alpine cda 9883 with my ipod, no problems with skipping.....and the bass is actually just as loud and clean as with a cd.

[01 S-10]

i just use a clarion head unit with the "music catcher" feature. its an internal hard drive that absolutely will not skip.

Yeah I heard good things about those just can't afford a new headunit right now. Can anyone suggest a good mp3 player with good sound quality. I was looking at a Sony for $89.99 that claims to have CD quality sound.

[ryde2idie]

Yeah I heard good things about those just can't afford a new headunit right now. Can anyone suggest a good mp3 player with good sound quality. I was looking at a Sony for $89.99 that claims to have CD quality sound.

i had 30gb ipod for a while (until i dropped it in soda) their pretty decent the sound quality is great unless you try runnin it threw one of their preset equalizers and then its just ruined. its also pretty reliable only froze up maybe twice but thats caus i wasnt usin it the way intended really. my girl had the zune with the big screen and it had a equalizer you could adjust yourself but the battery life on it suckd and she couldnt look at pics without it freezin all the time.

[Neo_frog]

Yeah I heard good things about those just can't afford a new headunit right now. Can anyone suggest a good mp3 player with good sound quality. I was looking at a Sony for $89.99 that claims to have CD quality sound.

It really depends on the bitrate of the MP3s for quality. Higher the better. An iPod will do just fine if you can hook it up and use high quality rips with no clipping. Downloads tend to have bad quality or clipping so rip from your own CDs.