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AKICIF: Car stereo
Dec. 30th, 2005 01:44 pmI don't listen to the radio in the car all that much. Mostly what I listen to is audiobooks, either on tape or on the iPod. To listen to stuff on the iPod, I have an adapter that goes into the tape slot on the stereo and has a plug that goes into the iPod. Via some magic, this allows the sound from the iPod to come out the car stereo speakers. To listen to tapes, I, well, stick a tape in the same tape slot (removing the adapter first, natch).
Unfortunately, something seems to be going wonky. When I stick something in the tape slot (either an adapter or a tape), the light that shows the direction the tape is going doesn't light up, and the tape resolutely refuses to advance. It used to do this only occasionally, and ejecting and reinserting the tape a time or three would cause it to behave. But now I can't make it work at all, and I'm forced to listen to MPR instead of Roger Zelazny (I'm about a third of the way through The Hand of Oberon, read by the author).
This is not a new car (1989), and I assume the car stereo is original equipment, which makes it some ungodly age in car stereo years.
1) Is there any obvious fix you can think of that won't cost a lot of money?
2) Failing that, are there any recommendations for a reasonably priced car stereo? What I mostly want is direct input, so I can plug my iPod into it without having to fiddle with adapters, but a tape player and CD player would be nice. Oh, yeah, and a radio, I guess.
The last time I bought a car stereo, I got it at Audio King, but that was about 20 years ago, and I'm not even sure Audio King still exists, let alone whether it's worth going to.
Unfortunately, something seems to be going wonky. When I stick something in the tape slot (either an adapter or a tape), the light that shows the direction the tape is going doesn't light up, and the tape resolutely refuses to advance. It used to do this only occasionally, and ejecting and reinserting the tape a time or three would cause it to behave. But now I can't make it work at all, and I'm forced to listen to MPR instead of Roger Zelazny (I'm about a third of the way through The Hand of Oberon, read by the author).
This is not a new car (1989), and I assume the car stereo is original equipment, which makes it some ungodly age in car stereo years.
1) Is there any obvious fix you can think of that won't cost a lot of money?
2) Failing that, are there any recommendations for a reasonably priced car stereo? What I mostly want is direct input, so I can plug my iPod into it without having to fiddle with adapters, but a tape player and CD player would be nice. Oh, yeah, and a radio, I guess.
The last time I bought a car stereo, I got it at Audio King, but that was about 20 years ago, and I'm not even sure Audio King still exists, let alone whether it's worth going to.
