Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.audio,net.auto Subject: Re: Connecting CD player to Toyota radio??? Message-ID: <523@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 07:58:54 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.523 Posted: Mon Feb 17 07:58:54 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Feb-86 07:03:21 EST References: <1582@emory.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Distribution: net Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.audio:7669 net.auto:9460 In article <1582@emory.UUCP> km@emory.UUCP writes: >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. > >-- >Ken Mandelberg I saw one of those el-cheapo units on sale here in the DC area last weekend (soundesign? one of those) for around $14 (reg. $27, methinks), which basically included the cigarette adapter and some peculiar circuit you connect to your car antenna. Wow, does this mean that if I hop up the parts, I can broadcast glorious music to neighboring cars? :-) -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "Godzilla has been spotted in Sector 5!"