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From: km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg)
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Subject: Connecting CD player to Toyota radio???
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Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 14:38:55 EST
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I recently got a Sony portable CD player, and have wondered about using
it in my car. I tried powering it from the cigarette lighter with a
Radio Shack adapter, and this seems to work fine. (By the way is there
any point in using Sony's adapter instead? The few dealers I called
didn't have one, and I was impatient).

The real question is about getting it to use the car's speakers.  I
have a Toyota Camry with a factory Toyota radio. Toyota sells a
separate cassette player which also mounts in the dash, and is
connected to the radio through a multipin (DIN?) connector on the back
of the radio. I don't know this for sure but I presume that the
cassette uses the amplifier in the radio.

Does it seem likely that I could rig a (passive) adapter to send the CD
player's line output into the radio? So far I don't have any info on
the pinouts of the connector. The Toyota maintainance manuals do not
address the issue. Any ideas where to get electrical info about the
radio?

Please no flames suggesting that quality of the radio's amplifier and
speakers are a bad match for the CD. I appreciate that already.

Incidentally, I noticed that is some press reports of the Winter CES in
Las Vegas, that several manufacturers announced after market dash
mountable radio/amplifier/cassete units with an easy connect
arrangement for portable CD players. I didn't keep track of which
manufacturers, and haven't seen them advertised retail yet.


-- 
Ken Mandelberg
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322

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