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Re: Car PC project



On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:54, Paul Gordon wrote:
> Hi Ant.

> I merely want to get a simple line-in audio input into the stereo.
> - Are you saying that the connection between the head-end & the
changer
> might not be line-level audio? - is there any way I can easily
check.verify
> this?

On a lot of head-units, the aux in is indeed line level audio - the problem
is
switching the head-unit into aux-in mode, for which the manufacturer's
would
like to sell you an expensive widget. Fortunately many public domain
alternatives exist!

> Indeed, - that sounds like exactly the unit I saw at UKHA2004 last
week,
> and would definately be the way I'd go...
>
> - not cheap though, as you say....

Well, given that this will be my fourth attempt at powering the carputer,
it
would in fact have been cheaper to just import the opus from the states
(linitx didn't do it at the time), but you live and learn ;)

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