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1. 06:45 PM - Re: Yup - something's wrong (Roland M)
2. 07:15 PM - Re: Changer Options (Roland M)
3. 07:22 PM - Re: Changer Options (Roland M)
4. 07:37 PM - Re: Changer Options (Roland M)
5. 07:59 PM - Re: Changer Options (Roland M)
6. 08:05 PM - Re: Changer Options (Randy Visentine)
7. 08:32 PM - Re: Changer Options (Randy Visentine)
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| Subject: | Yup - something's wrong |
--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
>--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: jtholley03 <jtholley03@adelphia.net>
>
>I have gotten some anomalies where turning the CDX-C90 off and on after
>starting the vehicle fixes them. That's fine.
>
>Here's where I'm at:
>
>CDX-C90
>
>RCA to
>
>XDP4000X
>
>into XDP4000X
>
>Sony XA-300
>
>iPod RCA'd into 300
>
>I can't play a CD in the 90? I could before I hooked up the 4000?
>
>I can't play radio (not that I give a rats ass - just adding for info) now.
>
>Where have I gone wrong?
>
>Jim
>
Jim, did you solve this problem?
If not, do you have an optical cable connected to the XDP from the C90 and
also analog RCAs going from the C90 to the XDP?
Do you have the XA-300 connected in the UniLink line directly from the HU
(and then the XDP connected to the XA-300) or do you have the C90 connected
directly to the XDP and then the XA connected to the changer port on the
XDP?
Roland M.
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| Subject: | Re: Changer Options |
--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
>From: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
>To: xdp4000x-list@matronics.com
>Subject: Re: XDP4000X-List: Changer Options
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:17:57 -0800
>
>--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
>
>
>"MrBlackC2003",
>
>As far as MP3 options are concerned for your C90/4000x, there's only really
>one option right now as far as I'm concerned: Check out the Phatbox by
>Phatnoise - http://www.phatnoise.com/
>
>Matt Dralle
>
There are actually other options, besides the Phatbox (which is fairly
overpriced IMO)... I've tried to post this before (when I first heard about
it perhaps half a year ago) but I was having problems posting to the list
(returned emails) and didn't want to be bothered retyping stuff, lol...
Anyway, if you have/get a Sony NW-HD1*, HD3 or HD5 Walkman (portable
HDD-based DAP (digital audio player)) you can actually integrate it with
UniLink... All three of these units have a 20G capacity and utilise either
ATRAC3/3plus or MP3 files on the internal HDD.
*The reason I put an asterisk beside the HD1 is because the HD1 was not
originally capable of playing MP3 files, only ATRAC3/3plus. Sony did offer
a firmware upgrade, however, which allowed it to be the equivalent of the
HD1. Unfortunately the firmware update offer is permanently closed now
(ended March 31st 2006) so you either have to have an HD3 or HD5 or newer
(or already upgraded HD1) for MP3 capability.
Note also that these players have all been discontinued but can be had in
"used-but-excellent-condition" in the neighbourhood of $120-$200 US. The
new Sony player equivalent the NW-A3000 is not yet available in the US (but
is available almost everywhere else in the world actually) is not supported
by the interface.
Anyway, a company called Connects2 makes an interface for these 3 players to
connect to UniLink... The interface which runs ~$100 US and allows you to
control the HDx and also display all normal information (album/artist title,
track title, track time, etc.) on the HU. It interfaces with the HU as
would any changer and displays text info as if it were a CD-Text changer.
There's only one small problem with the interface, that is the fact that
Sony utilises a line-out mode for the headphones jack (switches the output
impedance and voltage for line out); so both LINE OUT and HEADPHONES out use
the same jack. The problem is that the player will not engage LINE OUT mode
when there is a remote plugged into the jack. The Connects2 adapter, of
course, must use the remote/headphones jack for control/data and audio.
Therefore the only thing you can do is connect the player and set the volume
to maximum, which isn't quite as good as using the true line-out mode :(
There is no way past that limitation, short of hard-modding the player
(something I'm looking into doing myself since I have two HD3s and can
dedicate one to car-only use).
The Phatbox does offer larger capacities I suppose, but it can't also be
your personal portable DAP as well :P The iPod does offer larger capacities
(than the 20G Network Walkmans I mean) and there are also iPod to UniLink
adapters...
Sony was also supposed to make their own Walkman-to-UniLink adapter but
(perhaps since Connects2 beat them to the punch) they opted not to do that
and what they did do was make an *iPod* interface!!! Yes absolutely stupid
(but not unbelieveable given the stupid things Sony does) that they would
support a competing product for their HUs instead of their own Walkmans but
they did it anyway. That interface is known as the XA-110IP and allows
data/control/audio from a compatible iPod.
Connects2 also makes an iPod interface for UniLink in addition to their
Walkman interface.
The Connects2 Walkman-UniLink adapter is part # ASONWHD001; Connects2 is a
UK company, their US distributor, Connects2 USA, calls this adapter the
MSC-01.
Links:
UK:
http://www.connects2.com/c2search.aspx?catID=15&pat=1&amid=1
USA:
https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
Crutchfield (USA):
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-mnZH0qjFkkB/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=770&I=634MSC01
The Connects2 iPod-UniLink adapter is part # ASOIPOD001 / In the US, MSC-02
Links:
UK:
http://www.connects2.com/c2search.aspx?catID=27&pat=1&amid=1
USA:
https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id=21
The Sony iPod-UniLink interface:
Crutchfield:
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-mnZH0qjFkkB/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=770&I=158XA110IP
I don't really endorse anything iPod or Apple in any way, because one the
iPod stinks and two I hate Apple and believe they should go bankrupt, lol.
But there's the info anyway.
Note that none of these interfaces has any kind of pass-through (Crutchfield
erronously states Sony's XA-110IP does but it clearly doesn't); therefore if
any are to be connected in addition to other changer devices an XA-C30 or
other Sony MCA is required.
Hope that info helps!
Roland M.
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| Subject: | Re: Changer Options |
--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
>--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
>The Connects2 Walkman-UniLink adapter is part # ASONWHD001; Connects2 is a
>UK company, their US distributor, Connects2 USA, calls this adapter the
>MSC-01.
>
>Links:
>UK:
>http://www.connects2.com/c2search.aspx?catID=15&pat=1&amid=1
>USA:
>https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
>Crutchfield (USA):
>http://www.crutchfield.com/S-mnZH0qjFkkB/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=770&I=634MSC01
Just a quick correction, the Connects2USA link above for the
Walkman-to-UniLink adapter did not cut/paste properly...
The link should be:
https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
Roland M.
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| Subject: | Re: Changer Options |
--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
> >--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
>The link should be:
>https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
>
>Roland M.
>
Somehow I've managed to post the link incorrectly *twice*!?!?!
One more time:
https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
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| Subject: | Re: Changer Options |
--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
>--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
>Somehow I've managed to post the link incorrectly *twice*!?!?!
>
>One more time:
>
>https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
Link is still wrong??? :( :(
Apparently it isn't me, for some reason it is getting the "=20" of "id=20"
cutoff at the end??? Show up when I post but not when I get the email.
Weird.
Anyway I'm sure ppl would have found the product listing anyway...
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| Subject: | Re: Changer Options |
--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Randy Visentine" <randyman@gmail.com>
Roland - you ROCK! I am researching the Sony Walkman + Unilink adaptor
right now, as well as the iPod-Unilink adaptor (I would have never
known!!!).
Thanks!!!
Randy V
Where's my Vodka???
On 4/9/06, Roland M <mdx400@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> --> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
>
> > >--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
> >The link should be:
> >https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
> >
> >Roland M.
> >
>
> Somehow I've managed to post the link incorrectly *twice*!?!?!
>
> One more time:
>
> https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
>
>
--
Randy V.
Houston, TX
Audio-Dude/Musician/Crazy Guy
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| Subject: | Re: Changer Options |
--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Randy Visentine" <randyman@gmail.com>
Hey,
Does anyone know the story with Sony's Sony XAV-A1? It has Unilink for an
external TV-Tuner, but will it control a XDP-4000x? I doubt it. Anyone know
for sure?
Linky: http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_XAV_A1/4505-3426_7-31424074.html
Why on EARTH would Sony NOT support the XDP-4000x? It would be a perfect
"Upgrade" path for those of us that don't want to let go of the XDP-4000x
and an optically connected Changer, but would love to have MP3 capability
and a 7" Display! I doubt Sony would do something that smart :-) . So, we
stick with the C90, and Sony does not see any more cash...
Still looking at the I-Pod Unilink adaptor (is this brand-new? I can't find
it in stock), and the HD-3/5 adaptor. Has anyone actually used these
Unilink devices with a C90? The description says "Compatible with select
2000 and newer Sony Uniliny HU's" - wasn't that before the C90's time?
Let me know any info
Randy V.
On 4/9/06, Randy Visentine <randyman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Roland - you ROCK! I am researching the Sony Walkman + Unilink adaptor
> right now, as well as the iPod-Unilink adaptor (I would have never
> known!!!).
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Randy V
> Where's my Vodka???
>
>
> On 4/9/06, Roland M <mdx400@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > --> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com >
> >
> > > >--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
> > >The link should be:
> > > https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
> > >
> > >Roland M.
> > >
> >
> > Somehow I've managed to post the link incorrectly *twice*!?!?!
> >
> > One more time:
> >
> > https://www.connects2usa.com/products.php?id
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Randy V.
> Houston, TX
> Audio-Dude/Musician/Crazy Guy
>
--
Randy V.
Houston, TX
Audio-Dude/Musician/Crazy Guy
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