I just recieved mine and was thinking this would use my stock stereo and allow my Phone to play through my stock system. It looks like it will do one or the other. Can I just use this on my stock radio without the MP3 option? or will it do both?
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When the amp is installed to your stock system, use your system as normal. The MP3 option can be used without a receiver.
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The device was designed exactly for that - to be used on cars with no bluetooth stereo. If your stereo have bluetooth you could connect your smartphone directly to it and would not need this. It connects to bluetooth on your phone, then converts the signal to an FM radio frequency. You tune your stereo to that frequency and "wha-la" you have sound.
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I have my unit connected to the radio on my motorcycle amp. If the unit is playing, through my phone, it continues broadcasting when the bike starts. Also, it returns to the music, automatically, after phone calls. I hope this "info" has helped. C.D.VanDerveer
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I drive a 2011 Honda CR-V and so far haven't been able to find a model that will work in it. I have the 5th generation Shuffle and when I tried to plug it in was told that my vehicle didn't support the format. I know this hasn't been much help as I'm not sure what year model car you drive. I'm assuming that my car would need a much older model iPod since none of the three MP3 players I've tried have worked. I hope you find something that works for you!
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It responds to sound, so if you have a stereo playing whatever you want it will react to the noise coming out of the speakers. The unit itself doesnt actually play music.
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This piece really doesn't do anything for your radio. What is it meant to do is retain the original "chimes" that play thru your stock stereo when you replace it with an aftermarket one. If you don't care if you hear the keys in the ignition or open door chimes you have not need for this. However at the price I recommend you purchase and install it.
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Works loud with any car radio. If using with phone or mp3 player ur output from your deviceproly isnt strong enough. Yo need to purchase a cheap preamp for proly 20 bucks. Most will have a small eq with it and it will work. I have one and had to use preamp with mp3 player. Its not the amp. Its your device. You also might try turning the level on the amp up and make sure u have the little black button pushed in correctly for rca input.
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The sound is fine when you play the attached mp3/music device. Keep in mind the attachment is only transmitting a radio signal. If there is any sort of sound quality issue, more than likely it will have to do with the player or possibly the car stereo instead of this device. As long as the radio channel is not being used by a station, and your volume is all the way up on the attached device, everything will sound fine.
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I use it as an adapter from my phone. It sounds good on my factory car stereo. I'm pleased with it. I imagine that if I had a better sound system in my car it could make it to great.
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I didn't pay attention to that aspect ...I just checked it and looks like it doesn't have any option for stereo sound when listening to radio but when I put the usb and the sd card you get equalizer ...I also care about sound quality for me is really important that's why I can tell you that the speaker has a really amazing sound quality and also very loud now when using headphones the sound it brings to you is also very good and loud even louder than my galaxy s3 but obviously is not the most advanced.... the difference is not to much between the speaker and my gs3...
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I never tried to connect to the car, but it has a headphone jack. So it should connect the same as any other MP3.
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I've never played MP3 CDs so I can't really answer the question. I use an Ipod (the ultimate CD changer) with my head unit. I've had zero problems with the random feature with this arangement. good luck.
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Yes it plays mp3 through aux cable. If you are looking for a head unit just to listen to music and is cheap this is the way to go. But if you are looking to put a nice system in then you should go pioneer
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Basically what this is, is an in-line adapter that plugs into your speaker harness behind your stock radio. It is used to create rca signals...which are the red and white plugs on your amp. You need these in order for your amp to play sound. Basically you wire your amp like you would a car with an aftermarket cd player but aftermarket cd players have rca jacks built in on the back of them whereas stock radios don't have them and that's where this comes in. This is only for hooking an amp up to subwoofers. This has no effect on your factory speakers, they remain unchanged. Hopefully this answers your question Basically what this is, is an in-line adapter that plugs into your speaker harness behind your stock radio. It is used to create rca signals...which are the red and white plugs on your amp. You need these in order for your amp to play sound. Basically you wire your amp like you would a car with an aftermarket cd player but aftermarket cd players have rca jacks built in on the back of them whereas stock radios don't have them and that's where this comes in. This is only for hooking an amp up to subwoofers. This has no effect on your factory speakers, they remain unchanged. Hopefully this... » Read More Basically what this is, is an in-line adapter that plugs into your speaker harness behind your stock radio. It is used to create rca signals...which are the red and white plugs on your amp. You need these in order for your amp to play sound. Basically you wire your amp like you would a car with an aftermarket cd player but aftermarket cd players have rca jacks built in on the back of them whereas stock radios don't have them and that's where this comes in. This is only for hooking an amp up to subwoofers. This has no effect on your factory speakers, they remain unchanged. Hopefully this answers your question « Show Less
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One thing that stood out when I was researching this before purchase, was dependent on what shows on the iPod/iPhone screen when plugged into the device (whether car dock, home stereo dock, etc). I recall seeing an explanation on this on cablejive's site, or maybe it was a chat tech support with them. This is the way it was explained to me when I was researching it, and it was true for my 2nd Gen iPod touch: -If your dock normally allows functionality of the iPod when you connect it, i.e. you can scroll through music and playlists, etc. but usually see the volume bar across the bottom of the screen disappear, then this would work with your device because it only requires an "audio" connection, not a full data connection. This was the case for my iHome radio dock at home, I could still scroll through music and playlists and Pandora from my iPod while docked. The dockboss air DID work for me in this application. -If your dock takes over the iPod, i.e. the iPod displays "docking accessory" and locks out all audio functionality, then this will not work with it as that device requires a full "data" connection to the iPod. This is the case with a BT device I added to my vehicle, it locks the iPod screen from any music menu stuff (music collection, Pandora, etc.), and forces me to instead select my music through the other device's screen. The dockboss air DID NOT work with this device. When you connect your iPod to your Chysler's cable, does it: 1-lock your iPod screen and force you to select music from your radio's screen? --if so, then this most likely won't work because the dockboss air doesn't support this data-based connection over the air 2-or does it keep your iPod screen open and allow you to select music directly from your iPod, and only transfer the audio to the radio (radio might just display "device connected" or something)? --If this is the case, then I would say you have a good chance this would work for you because this is an "audio-only" connection.
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If you have an auxilliary jack on your car stereo system, you can play any portible mp3 player on your car stereo. You just plug one end of the cord into the headphone jack of your player and the other end into the auxilliary jack of your car stereo. Then you set your car stereo to AUX. My husband had this kind of stereo installed in my truck for me. Works great! I can listen to anything that's on my mp3 player and not have to carry CD's around.
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I'm not quite sure actually, I would say trial and error but that kinda defeats the purpose of asking the question hmmm have you googled it? If your stereo has an FM radio feature on it, you could get an FM transmitter and hook your phone up to that.