I wanted to be able to hook up an ipod or other mp3 player and i wanted to be able just to hook up a 1/8" (or 3.5mm) male-male cable to port the music through the car.
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Full Version: Car radios with 1/8" input on face
What is the question?? 
the question i guess would be which decks have an input. I'm wondering the same thing - don't really need any other fancy features but this one is hard to find!
I've seen some JVC units with that front input, but i don't like JVC car radios that much. I prefer Pioneer, but they don't have radios with that input AFAIK.
Sorry - yes that's the question, which decks have those inputs on the front.
maybe its my imangination but there seems more replys when the question is vaque & unclear - gives people a chance to decipher the question.
maybe its my imangination but there seems more replys when the question is vaque & unclear - gives people a chance to decipher the question.
It causes people uneccessary effort trying to figure out what should have been obvious.
I have a JVC car deck. It has a input jack on the front. I only used a handful of times since I have no portable devices. It is a JVC KD-SX980. Getting to be a bit old now I guess. It plays CDRW's and mp3 cd's so it's a real handy deck. 50wx4ch. Dual Pre-outs and cd changer support and it includes a remote. Doesn't have any of that fancy crap new decks have like all that video stuff that causes wrecks. 
I think I picked this up 3 years ago for under $200 and it still works like a charm. I had an AIWA tape deck once that had the same kind of input on it, but it broke after a month. Warrenties are good. My recommendation would be to take a look at somewhere like Best Buy at all the decks and see which brands usually have the jack on the front.
I think I picked this up 3 years ago for under $200 and it still works like a charm. I had an AIWA tape deck once that had the same kind of input on it, but it broke after a month. Warrenties are good. My recommendation would be to take a look at somewhere like Best Buy at all the decks and see which brands usually have the jack on the front.
QUOTE(Duble0Syx @ Aug 31 2005, 10:06 PM)
I have a JVC car deck. It has a input jack on the front. I only used a handful of times since I have no portable devices. It is a JVC KD-SX980. Getting to be a bit old now I guess. It plays CDRW's and mp3 cd's so it's a real handy deck. 50wx4ch. Dual Pre-outs and cd changer support and it includes a remote. Doesn't have any of that fancy crap new decks have like all that video stuff that causes wrecks. I think I picked this up 3 years ago for under $200 and it still works like a charm. I had an AIWA tape deck once that had the same kind of input on it, but it broke after a month. Warrenties are good. My recommendation would be to take a look at somewhere like Best Buy at all the decks and see which brands usually have the jack on the front.
I think I picked this up 3 years ago for under $200 and it still works like a charm. I had an AIWA tape deck once that had the same kind of input on it, but it broke after a month. Warrenties are good. My recommendation would be to take a look at somewhere like Best Buy at all the decks and see which brands usually have the jack on the front.I've been through several car radios, JVC, Kenwood, Pioneer, Blaupunkt... while the JVC cassette decks were really good back then, the CD units aren't my taste. Kenwood, well what can i say, i got one of them MASK radios where you can flip the display and it looks like no radio is installed (unless the thief knows of this feature, and i bet you he does). Anyway, the flat cable connecting the display to the actual radio broke after 2 years, rendering the display useless, and it costs about 50 euros to fix it. I was curious and checked ebay, turns out there are dozens of nice Kenwood radios with the displays no longer working. Guess this was the last Kenwood i ever bought.
Blaupunkt... good sound, and it has a real volume knob, not those + and - keys. That i like. But again, something broke on the back of the removable display, it's held on by Tesa Powerstrips now, more or less. Pioneer however, no problems, and sounds good.
One suggestion, find a blank in the dash somewhere, install a socket, route a cable from it to the aux input at the rear of the head unit.
Pioneer all the way!
Pioneer all the way!
QUOTE(CiTay @ Aug 31 2005, 05:14 PM)
QUOTE(Duble0Syx @ Aug 31 2005, 10:06 PM)
I have a JVC car deck. It has a input jack on the front. I only used a handful of times since I have no portable devices. It is a JVC KD-SX980. Getting to be a bit old now I guess. It plays CDRW's and mp3 cd's so it's a real handy deck. 50wx4ch. Dual Pre-outs and cd changer support and it includes a remote. Doesn't have any of that fancy crap new decks have like all that video stuff that causes wrecks. I think I picked this up 3 years ago for under $200 and it still works like a charm. I had an AIWA tape deck once that had the same kind of input on it, but it broke after a month. Warrenties are good. My recommendation would be to take a look at somewhere like Best Buy at all the decks and see which brands usually have the jack on the front.
I think I picked this up 3 years ago for under $200 and it still works like a charm. I had an AIWA tape deck once that had the same kind of input on it, but it broke after a month. Warrenties are good. My recommendation would be to take a look at somewhere like Best Buy at all the decks and see which brands usually have the jack on the front.I've been through several car radios, JVC, Kenwood, Pioneer, Blaupunkt... while the JVC cassette decks were really good back then, the CD units aren't my taste. Kenwood, well what can i say, i got one of them MASK radios where you can flip the display and it looks like no radio is installed (unless the thief knows of this feature, and i bet you he does). Anyway, the flat cable connecting the display to the actual radio broke after 2 years, rendering the display useless, and it costs about 50 euros to fix it. I was curious and checked ebay, turns out there are dozens of nice Kenwood radios with the displays no longer working. Guess this was the last Kenwood i ever bought.
Blaupunkt... good sound, and it has a real volume knob, not those + and - keys. That i like. But again, something broke on the back of the removable display, it's held on by Tesa Powerstrips now, more or less. Pioneer however, no problems, and sounds good.
Theives seem to know all the tricks, but outsmarted them. Since my car is a beater, I just unplug the deck and take it with me when I leave the car. Not the easiest thing, but I don't like having my window broken. Also, this JVC deck has a real knob for the volume too. I hate the + - buttons. I have an older Sony cd deck and the volume knob on it broke. The deck was replaced for free fortunetaly, but it had many other issues. I had a pioneer cassette deck once. I'd still have it if I hadn't sold it with a car. Pioneer has always made good car stereo equipment. Alpine used too, do they even exist anymore? With all of the mp3 players around these days you'd think more decks would have a 3.5mm input on the front. Also, if your just using the deck to plug an mp3 player into, why not just buy a much cheaper cassette deck? Should sound just as good, and more will have the input.
I have an AIWA deck with this feature. CDs and MP3 CDs sound great on it, but the radio section is the worst that I have ever heard.
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